Tag: Centre for Disease Control
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What is Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and what does it have to do with disease control?
Matt Mason1, 4, Peta-Anne Zimmerman2, 4, Vanessa Sparke3, 4 As we navigate through the current COVID-19 pandemic, many health disciplines and professions are reflecting on our successes and failures in infectious disease prevention and control in Australia, and the role we have played in the larger region. This focus has…
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A start on a new approach to disease control?
Terry Slevin It’s welcome news that Labor, in opposition, is thinking about how to maximise Australia’s structural arrangements for the control of communicable diseases. Labor has overnight proposed the creation of a new national Centre for Disease Control, located within the Commonwealth Health Department. The proposed Centre would have…