Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control
A section of Hygiene (ISSN 2673-947X).
Section Information
The journal Section on Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control covers all aspects related to the surveillance, investigation, and control of communicable diseases, with a strong emphasis on practical public health and hygiene interventions. It encompasses any research or review on the transmission dynamics, risk factors, and burden of infectious diseases, with implications for public health policy and practice.
This Section puts special emphasis on the analysis of outbreak detection and response, antimicrobial resistance, emerging and re-emerging pathogens, and the evaluation of prevention and control interventions from a multidisciplinary and One Health perspective. Several topics are inside the scope of the Section, such as disease surveillance systems, outbreak investigation and response, antimicrobial stewardship, healthcare-associated infections, and the development of evidence-based prevention and control strategies.
Keywords
- infectious disease surveillance;
- outbreak investigation and response;
- disease transmission dynamics;
- antimicrobial resistance;
- emerging and re-emerging pathogens;
- healthcare-associated infections;
- One Health approach;
- public health interventions;
- antimicrobial stewardship;
- infection prevention and control;
- social determinants of infectious diseases;
- immunization programs;
- contact tracing;
- health policy and communicable disease control
