1、The case for investment and action in infection prevention and control World Health Organization 2025.Some rights reserved.This work is available under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence.Suggested citation.The case for investment and action in infection prevention and control.Geneva:World Health Organi

2、zation;2025.https:/doi.org/10.2471/B09330Design by Maraltro.2AcknowledgementsThe development of the investment case was coordinated by the Department of Integrated Health Services(IHS),Universal Health Coverage and Life Course Division of the World Health Organization(WHO).Benedetta Allegranzi(Depar

3、tment of IHS)coordinated the overall development process and led the writing of the document.Peter Bischoff(infection prevention and control(IPC)consultant,Department of IHS)contributed to the writing,and Ece zelik(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD),Paris,France)contributed

4、 to the content of this document.Ece zelik(OECD,Paris,France)and Alinor Lerouge (OECD,Paris,France)carried out the statistical analyses for part of the data presented in this investment case.The following WHO staff and consultants contributed to the development of this document:Melanie Bertram(Depar

5、tment of Delivery for Impact,Division of Data Analytics and Delivery);Ana Paula Coutinho Rehse(WHO Regional Office for Europe,Copenhagen,Denmark);Rudi Eggers(Department of IHS);Zhao Li(WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific,Manila,Philippines);Margaret Montgomery(Department of Environment,Clima

6、te Change and Health,Healthier Populations Division);Paul Rogers(Department of IHS);Giovanni Satta(Department of IHS).WHO extends its gratitude to the following external reviewers of this investment case:Alessandro Cassini(Cantonal Service of Public Health,Geneva,Switzerland);Michele Cecchini(OECD,P