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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on March 8, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(2):118; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl033
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Communicable disease control—still a core public health function

Jim van Steenbergen1, Ruth Gelletlie2 and Viviane Van Casteren3

1 Centre Communicable Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
2 Health Protection Agency, Yorkshire and Humber, UK
3 Department of Epidemiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Correspondence: Dr Viviane Van Casteren, Department of Epidemiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, J. Wytsmanstreet 14, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, e-mail: Viviane.vancasteren@iph.fgov.be

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‘Now wash your hands.’ It is an old message, and a simple one, but it is one of the foundation stones on which the whole of public health is built. One hundred and fifty years ago isolation and hand washing were almost the only tools available to public health, but since then many new and powerful control measures have been developed. At the start of the 21st century, early detection, use of proper antibiotic agents, surveillance, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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