Infectious disease-related laws: prevention and control measures

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...

Infectious Disease Prevention and Control

The Recurrence of Infectious Diseases, the Role of Disease Monitoring and Control Systems, International Laws and Health Education

  از هزاران سال پیش بیماری و مرگ بعنوان وقایع عادی زندگی که ناشی از سرنوشت غم انگیز بشری است پذیرفته شده ، بدون آنکه علل اساسی آن مشخص  باشد. امروزه چنین حالت تسلیم آمیزی غیرقابل قبول می نماید. می دانیم که بیماری و مرگ به میزان زیادی ناشی از نارسائیهایی است که در ساختار بهداشتی - اجتماعی جوامع کنونی مطرح است. در این میان اثر عوامل آموزشی و اجتماعی بر حمایتهای بهداشتی امری بدیهی و مسلم است و آث...

Infectious diseases following natural disasters: prevention and control measures.

Natural disasters may lead to infectious disease outbreaks when they result in substantial population displacement and exacerbate synergic risk factors (change in the environment, in human conditions and in the vulnerability to existing pathogens) for disease transmission. We reviewed risk factors and potential infectious diseases resulting from prolonged secondary effects of major natural disa...

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...