Infection Prevention and Control in Health Care
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases, Chronic Diseases, and Disease Prevention".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 455
Special Issue Editors
Interests: healthcare-related infection; bacterial drug resistance; microbial coinfection; COVID-19; coronavirus infections; drinking water quality
Interests: COVID-19; biofilm formation; healthcare-related infection; hand hygiene; precaution pattern; biosafety
Interests: microbiology applied to infection prevention and control in health services; microorganisms and infectious diseases: viruses, bacteria, parasites; host-parasite relationship; infection control mechanisms; bacterial and parasitic resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a serious public health problem worldwide. According to the Directorate General of the World Health Organization (WHO), the impact of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance on people's lives is incalculable. More than 24% of patients affected by healthcare-associated sepsis and 52.3% of patients treated in an Intensive Care Unit die each year. Deaths increase two- to three-fold when infections are resistant to antimicrobials. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed challenges and gaps in infection prevention and control, including in countries that have more advanced programs. The pandemic expanded the opportunities for action to be taken regarding safety, efficiency, and quality, in addition to strengthening programs in health systems. The challenge remains to secure the necessary human resources, supplies, and infrastructure. HAIs also contribute negatively to increases in the length of stay of patients in hospital and increased morbidity and mortality rates, thus impacting costs.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the problem of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Submissions of new research papers, reviews, case reports, and conference papers are welcome for this Special Issue, as well as papers dealing with new approaches to infection prevention and control and other types of methodological research manuscripts, position papers, brief reports, and comments on this topic.
We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines, including exposure assessment science, epidemiology, intervention studies, risk assessment, health impact, and risk management, including drinking water standards and sustainable practices in compliance with the 2030 Agenda, which is a document that aims to guide international work towards sustainable development.
Here are some examples of topics that may be covered in this Special Issue:
- Epidemiology of infectious diseases;
- Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs);
- Biosafety and standard precaution in the control of infection in health services;
- Microbiology applied to infection prevention and control in health services—micro-organisms and infectious diseases such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites;
- Patient and worker health and safety and their implications;
- Impacts and repercussions of major infectious diseases on global and planetary health—emerging bacterial and viral infections, with an emphasis on respiratory syndromes and coronavirus;
- HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, syphilis—sexually transmitted infections;
- Vaccines and associated processes;
- Advanced nursing practices aimed at infection prevention and control;
- 2030 Agendasustainability actions in infection control and drinking water quality, among other means of environmental dissemination, such as waterborne infection;
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in infection control.
Dr. Maria Eliete Batista Moura
Dr. Denise Andrade
Dr. Daniela Reis Joaquim de Freitas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- epidemiology
- healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
- biosafety
- microbiology
- patient safety
- infections
- sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
- vaccines
- environmental sustainability
- artificial intelligence in infection control
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