Kaur, Kiranjeet;
Greco, Stefano;
Saroj, Sunil D;
Hossain, Shaikh Shah;
Pradhan, Himanshu Sekhar;
Singh, Sanjeev K;
Clerici, Francesca;
... Schröder-Bäck, Peter; + view all
(2020)
Risk management and prevention of antibiotics resistance: The PREVENT IT project.
South Eastern European Journal of Public Health
, XIV
10.70135/seejph.vi.163.
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Abstract
Background: Globally, a significant increase in the emergence of antibiotic resistant (ABR) path-ogens has rendered several groups of antibiotics ineffective for the treatment of life-threatening infections. It is an endemic in hospital settings and a major concern while handling pathogens involved in an epidemic or pandemic. ABR is a matter of great concern due to its recusant impact on public health and cost to the healthcare system, especially in developing country like India. An indiscriminate and inappropriate usage of antimicrobials, poor infrastructure and sanitation are the major factors driving the evolution of ABR in such countries. Therefore, in addition to the devel-opment of novel therapeutics and safeguarding the efficacy of existing antibiotics, there is an ur-gent need for a programme focussed on the education in risk management and prevention of ABR.// Aim: To promote qualitative teaching activities in academia and society to visualize a future where every individual is aware of ABR and empowered with right education to address the issue.// Methods: The project ‘Risk Management and Prevention of Antibiotics Resistance - PREVENT IT’, funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union, converges academicians and non-government organizations (NGOs) to inculcate a sense of awareness towards the increase in the frequency of ABR pathogens, judicial usage of antimicrobials and the economic/health burden of ABR, in students, academicians, clinicians and population at large.// Expected outcome: The project commissioned envisages a behavioural change in individuals and attempts to support policymakers by executing stable changes in the curricula of institutes of higher education, developing advanced workshop modules for the training of academicians and disseminating ABR-related information through conferences/seminars, social media campaigns and an online platform dedicated to ABR. In addition, the project aims to develop a European-Indian network for the management of risk and prevention of ABR.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Risk management and prevention of antibiotics resistance: The PREVENT IT project |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.70135/seejph.vi.163 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.70135/seejph.vi.163 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright (c) 2020 Authors. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The license allows you to copy, distribute, and transmit the work, as well as adapting it. However, you must attribute the work to the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work), and cannot use the work for commercial purposes without prior permission of the author. If you alter or build upon this work, you can distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194960 |
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