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Call for Chapters: Advanced Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control Practices

Editors

Jacob Sheehama, University of Namibia, Namibia

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025
Full Chapters Due: June 29, 2025
Submission Date: June 29, 2025

Introduction

Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic in many countries, and people with untreated or poorly treated infectious TB are the source of transmission. Although recent decades have witnessed increased efforts in the fight to end TB, fundamental gaps are hampering these efforts, particularly in resource-constrained settings and in settings with a high burden of disease. Unless TB is considered when individuals attend healthcare services, diagnosis will be delayed or missed altogether, and effective TB infection prevention and control (IPC) measures (including early effective treatment) might not be in place.

Objective

This book is complementary to the overall Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) pracitices and regulations of the Health Ministries and specialised institutions, like corerctional services and old age homes. The book is meant to assist in the establishment of a scientific framework for TB infection prevention and control (TB-IPC) in health facilities, as well as in those congregate, public and community settings where the potential for transmission of TB is likely to be high. They provide both technical and operational guidance and also detail and prioritize the necessary managerial activities and administrative controls at all levels of the health system.

Target Audience

This book is intended for use by everyone including frontline health care workers; health system officials responsible for TB, HIV/AIDS and IPC programmes, managers of hospital services in the public and private sectors; officials of the prison, police and military services; managers of private and state-owned business enterprises and companies and managers responsible for the housing conditions and work environment of their workers. Indeed Everyone.

Recommended Topics

1. Prevallence and burden of Tubercurosis in Prisons and correctional Facilities 2. TB diagnosis and screening among vulnerable populations 3. Laboratory Diagnostic technology of TB in primary Healthcare services 4. Risks of TB infections among healthcare workers 5. TB New drugs clinical trials and innovations 6. TB Treatment Procatice in Rural and developed countries 7. Indigenous knowledge in TB Prevention and Control among rural communities 8. Infection Prevention and Control Engineering and design practices

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 27, 2025, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by May 11, 2025 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters of a minimum of 10,000 words (word count includes references and related readings) are expected to be submitted by June 29, 2025, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Advanced Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control Practices. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.



Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global Scientific Publishing (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global Scientific Publishing specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2026.



Important Dates

April 27, 2025: Proposal Submission Deadline
May 11, 2025: Notification of Acceptance
June 29, 2025: Full Chapter Submission
August 3, 2025: Review Results Returned
August 31, 2025: Final Acceptance Notification
September 7, 2025: Final Chapter Submission



Inquiries

Jacob Sheehama
University of Namibia
jsheehama@unam.na / sheehamajacobangara@yahoo.com
+264814348018



Classifications


Education; Education; Life Sciences; Life Sciences; Medicine and Healthcare; Medicine and Healthcare; Security and Forensics; Security and Forensics; Government and Law; Government and Law; Physical Sciences and Engineering; Physical Sciences and Engineering
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