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Communicable diseases A to Z |
The communicable disease control guidelines on this website are intended to assist public health units with the public health management of communicable diseases in Queensland.
These comprehensive guidelines have been made available online to give health professionals a ‘one stop shop’ to current clinical information and to enable the best possible public health interventions. The guidelines aim to standardise the approach to the control of communicable diseases in Queensland, based on best practice approaches from national and international sources. The guidelines are regularly reviewed and updated over a three year cycle, and on an as-needs basis.
The control of communicable diseases in the local community is predominantly the responsibility of public health physicians, public health nurses and environmental health officers. To control the transmission of communicable disease these officers, at various times, need assistance and collaboration from colleagues in hospitals, laboratories, community health centres, private medical practice, local government and other areas of Queensland Health.
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