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- - - - Symptomatic infection with Clostridium difficile bacteria. CDI occurs mainly in hospitals and nursing homes in people over 65 years after treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, which destroy commensal gut bacteria, allowing C. difficile to proliferate in the large intestine. CDI causes severe ulceration of the gut lining, pain and persistent diarrhoea.
    - - Strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that resist treatment with methicillin (or meticillin in the UK), the antibiotic generally used to treat staphylococcal infections. MRSA commonly causes infection of surgical sites and the bloodstream. VRSA strains have also been identified that are resistant to another antibiotic, vancomycin.
- - - - The central coordinating body within the WHO’s surveillance function is the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
    - - The UK has four such agencies:
        
        Public Health England (PHE) – formerly the Health Protection Agency (HPA) until April 2013
        
        the National Public Health Service Wales
        
        Health Protection Scotland
        
        the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland.
- - - - the provision of transport and other infrastructures to enable widespread access to health and social services
      - controls on the pollution of the environment by traffic, agriculture and industrial processes
      - an education system that delivers a high rate of literacy in the population, particularly in women, which is strongly associated with reduced morbidity and mortality rates among their children
      - gender equality in access to the means of subsistence, goods and services, including health care
      - an economic structure that supports an adequate income, shelter and nutrition for all households
      - a stable and equitable political system.