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An Overview of Nosocomial Infection Control in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Claudio S. Pannuti  and
Renato S. Grinbaum
Claudio S. Pannuti*
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital do Servidor Publico Estadual de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Renato S. Grinbaum
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital do Servidor Publico Estadual de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
*
Institute de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Av. Dr. Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 470 05403-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Abstract

Brazil is the largest country in Latin America, with a population of 146 million people. The socioeconomic development and the distribution of population and health services varies widely within the country. There are approximately 1.2 million hospital admissions per month, 80% of them paid by a government healthcare program that follows the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) model. The Ministry of Health has been trying to establish a nationwide nosocomial infection control program since 1983. Most Brazilian hospitals now have some kind of infection control activity, but only a few of them have complete programs. Infrastructural deficiencies, the scarcity of well-trained healthcare workers, and the widespread occurrence of multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative bacteria are some of the challenges faced by Brazilian hospitals in the control of nosocomial infection.

Type
Global Aspects of Infection Control: Part I
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , March 1995 , pp. 170 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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