Why Infection Control Is A Priority ? Emerging Challenges in Health Care. Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the infrastructure of health care.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society as a whole. Infection continues to be a greater challenge than in the past as the professional competency has advanced with treating the patients with complicated medical and surgical conditions, so we need a coordinated effort to control the Infections in and around Hospitals. The responsible health authority of the Individuals should develop a…
