Keeping health facilities safe: One way of strengthening the interaction between disease-specific programmes and health;Point de vue-Assurer la sécurité dans les installations de santé - un moyen de renforcer l'interaction entre les programmes spécifiques à certaines maladies et les systèmes de santé

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1407-1412

  Harries, Anthony D ^a,b   Zachariah, Rony ^c   Tayler Smith, Katie ^c   Schouten, Erik J ^d,e   Chimbwandira, Frank ^d   Van Damme, Wim ^f   El Sadr, Wafaa M ^g  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

^e Management Sciences for Health ^*  (Malawi)

^f INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease specific programmes; Health systems; HIV AIDS; Infection control; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEEDLE; SHARPS DISPOSAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SYRINGE; WORK;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH FACILITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 78649715675     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02662.x     Document Type: Article

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