Infection Prevention And Control Guidelines For Health Care Facilities

Over the past few decades, the world has seen increased number of outbreaks of diseases that were once better controled, like TB and emerging new diseases such as SARS and Avian flu. Infectious agents that can cause incurable diseases, eg. HIV, Hepatitis B and C, have become asignificant cause of illness and death.

 Once of the most important explainations is poor disease control and disease provention, specifically, prevention the spreed of infections in healthcare setting. With knowledge and application of appricate infection prevention practices, healthcare workers can provide high-quality, safe services and prevent infections in service providers, other healthcare staff and petients alike. In addition, they can protect the community from infections that originate in healthcare facilities, prevent the spreed of antibiotic-resistant micro organisms and lower the costs of healthcare services since prevention is cheaper than treatement.

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