The Control of Infectious Disease Group Report

The deliberate control of infectious diseases at the population level is relatively recent in human history. Public health institutions have become important departments of government at all levels, engaging in a wide variety of preventive medical activities such as the provision of maternal and child health services, immunization, surveillance, epidemic control, and various forms of environmental hygiene. Agricultural agencies engage in analogous activities for the control of diseases among livestock and crops. Policies for control of specific diseases have evolved based upon experience and contemporary understanding of disease processes involved, with inevitable constraints on money, manpower, technology, and public acceptance. Optimizing these control practices is clearly desirable but raises major difficulties. Neither traditions nor institutions easily change.

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