Management of infectious diseases in closed and semi closed communities
Abstract
The term ‘closed community’ is used to refer to a population of people living together
continuously with limited contact with others outside that specific community. They share social
amenities such as toilets, recreation facilities, wash rooms, water supply and at times sleeping
places. They are in close contact with minimum interruption for long periods. Typical examples
include military camps, ship crew on extended period at sea, refugee camps, mental hospitals and
prisons. Boarding schools are examples of semi-closed communities. Similarly, some patients in
hospital wards could be viewed as semi-closed communities. The term ‘closed community’ must
not be confused with ‘gated community’ which refer to residential community containing strictly
controlled entrance with a closed perimeter wall but otherwise live independent of each other
with no shared social facilities.
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Citation
East Cent. Afri. J. Pharm. Sci., Volume 14, Issue 1, p.1-2Publisher
University of Nairobi Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10378]