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Hazards of occupational transmission and strategies for prevention of infectious disease in dental education
Author(s) -
McCauley KR,
Gerbert BJ,
Greene JC,
Robertson PB,
Littlejohn C,
Greenspan D,
Greenspan JS
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1988.52.9.tb02236.x
Subject(s) - infection control , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , disease control , health care , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , vaccination , dental care , environmental health , family medicine , gerontology , political science , intensive care medicine , pathology , electrical engineering , law , engineering
The emergence of AIDS has alerted the nation's health care community to the dangers of occupational transmission of infectious disease. This article assesses the risk of occupational transmission in the health care setting and examines two prevention strategies: vaccination programs and infection control protocols. The implementation of these strategies by the School of Dentistry, University of California at San Francisco, is recounted to illustrate an institutional response to the issue of infection control in the dental setting.