<unk>  and health care epidemiology
is the discipline con setting. 
As such, it is a practical (rather than an academic) sub-discipline of epidemiology.
It is an essential (though often underrecognized and undersupported) part of the infrastructure of health care.<unk>  and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society as a whole.<unk>  concerns itself both with prevention (hand hygiene/hand washing, cleaning/disinfection/sterilization, vaccination, surveillance) and with investigation and management of demonstrated or suspected spread of<unk>  within a particular health-care setting (e.g. outbreak investigation). It is on this basis that the common title being adopted within health care is<unk>  Prevention &<unk> ".
Infection control
Patient education
Medical education
Preventive medicine
Prophylaxis
Surface science
Health promotion
Transfusion medicine