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LEADING ARTICLE
Infection
Health protection and a new strategy for combating infection in children
1 Host Defence Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
2 Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, St George’s Hospital, London, UK
3 PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr A Nicoll, PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK
anicoll@phls.org.uk
A unique opportunity to develop world class infection and health protection services for children
Keywords: child health; health protection; infection; public health
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The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England has recently published a strategy for health protection (see box for definition).1 The prevention, diagnosis, and management of infection forms a large part of this but the new Health Protection Agency (HPA), which will become active in April 2003, will also deal with emergency planning and environmental threats to human health as there are many overlaps in the approaches to dealing with infections, and chemical and radiological threats.1 This initiative has important implications for the way in which paediatricians will work to protect children from all such threats. In combination with the National Service Framework (NSF) for Children,2 it offers the opportunity for developing networks of care which will potentially provide a high quality infection diagnosis and treatment service for all children.
Infections are causing increasing problems in public health and clinical care. The rising toll of HIV and other sexually transmitted
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