A National Action Plan to Eliminate Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases

Vaccine-preventable diseases.

The panel addressed four main areas of vaccine development and use: diseases of public health importance for which no vaccine is available; diseases for which an existing licensed vaccine is not optimal and alternative vaccines are under development; diseases for which a vaccine exists but is not being used optimally; and diseases requiring vaccines of specialized or limited use, such as those ...

Chapter 20: National Surveillance of Vaccine-preventable Diseases

The national reporting system for infectious diseases in the United States was initially an archival system designed to document trends in disease occurrence rather than to provide epidemiologically important information needed for prevention and control of diseases. As national immunization programs developed, so did the need for surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. The first major su...

is hepatitis e a vaccine preventable diseases?

Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases

National action plan to eliminate central line-associated bloodstream infections in Taiwan.

The World Health Organization has proposed three major challenges in patient safety: healthcare-associated infection (HAI); safe surgery saves lives; and antimicrobial resistance. The first priority for patient safety is to confront HAI, which obviously indicates that HAI has become an important issue in global public health. HAI remains a current challenge in Taiwan. HAI is an important indica...