Healthcare and Technologies

Healthcare and Environmental Health

Healthcare settings include hospitals, health centres, clinics, dental surgeries and general practitioner facilities. They provide an opportunity to educate visitors and the general population about minimizing disease transmission by providing targeted messages and model safe environment. It also contributes to a safe home environment, which is especially relevant to the trend towards increased home based care in both developing and developed countries. The development and implementation of national policies, guidelines on safe practices, training and promotion of effective messages in a context of healthy medical facilities will decrease the number of infections associated with health-care settings. The international policy environment increasingly reflects the problem of healthcare associated infections