Adapting Existing Hospitals for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

Infectious disease surveillance: a cornerstone for prevention and control

In view of the galloping pace of globalization that is transforming the world into a global village, close international cooperation is essential in the detection , prevention, and control of communicable diseases.

Infectious disease prevention and control: remembering 1908 and imagining 2108.

n a short 100 years, humanity has changed course beyond measure. The world's population has grown sevenfold from 1 billion to near 7 billion, life expectancy has increased by half again from 50 to 75 years, and disease burden has been dramatically reduced. Although most of the health gains have occurred in the Western developed countries, globalization is rapidly altering the pace of change eve...

Use of existing systematic reviews for evidence assessments in infectious disease prevention: a comparative case study

BACKGROUND Given limited resources and time constraints, the use of existing systematic reviews (SR) for the development of evidence-based public health recommendations has become increasingly important. Recently, a five-step approach for identifying, analyzing, appraising and using existing SRs based on recent guidance by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) was proposed wi...

Infectious disease-related laws: prevention and control measures

OBJECTIVES This study examines recently revised Korean government legislation addressing global infectious disease control for public health emergency situations, with the aim of proposing more rational, effective and realistic interpretations and applications for improvement of law. METHODS The Korea reported its first laboratory-confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coro...