RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Prevention is better than cure
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 572
OP 583
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-6-572
VO 9
IS 6
A1 Leszek Borysiewicz
YR 2009
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/6/572.abstract
AB The history of the control of infectious disease reflects the balance between our understanding of the nature of infection, the mechanisms of host resistance and the available technology to deliver an intervention. However, behind this ‘biomedical’ construct lies a deeper set of issues which embody serendipity, public understanding, and population-based intervention and its acceptability by the wider community, often complicated by the decisions and subsequent vacillations of policy makers.