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2025年1月22日 · Disease - Control, Prevention, Treatment: Most diseases are preventable to a greater or lesser degree, the chief exceptions being the idiopathic diseases, such as the inherited metabolic defects. In the case of those diseases resulting from environmental exposures, prevention is a matter of eliminating, or sharply reducing, the factors ...

2024年11月29日 · Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a practical, evidence-based approach preventing patients and health workers from being harmed by avoidable infections. Effective IPC requires constant action at all levels of the health system, including policymakers, facility managers, health workers and those who access health services.

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (CCDM), now in its 21st edition, is an essential resource for public health professionals. It provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on the identification, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases.

In the Division of Programmes for Disease Control, we are working to reduce the number of new infections and efficiently treat people currently infected by a communicable disease, or affected by a noncommunicable disease.

In this article, we highlight the most effective initiatives for the control and prevention of infectious diseases: vaccination; environmental sanitation; vector control; social programs that encourage a reduction in the population growth; control of urbanization; safe sex stimulation; testing; treatment of sexually and vertically transmitted ...

Infection prevention and control is now recognized as a major component of most patient safety programs. All hospitals are required to have within their structure an infection prevention and control department or team that surveys the hospital for health care–associated infections (HAI).

WHO recommends five core strategic interventions to accelerate the prevention, control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs): innovative and intensified disease management, preventive chemotherapy, vector control, veterinary public health, and; provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene

2025年2月13日 · The current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) clade 2.3.4.4.b viruses, genotype B3.13, among dairy cattle was first detected in March 2024 (1), with human cases of HPAI A(H5) among dairy farm workers identified beginning in April (2).Farm workers and bovine veterinary practitioners working with HPAI A(H5) virus–infected cattle are at increased risk for HPAI A(H5 ...

4 天之前 · Author summary Improving epidemic outcomes in situations with limited resources for control is important across human, animal and plant health. An example of this type of optimisation is deciding which infected plants to remove first to reduce ecosystem or agricultural losses from an invasive plant disease when the budget for control is limited. A common approach to these optimisations is to ...