Developing Standards for Control of Communicable Diseases in nurseries at Lattakia City

In recent decades, the number of children in nurseries has increased significantly throughout the world, increasing their exposure to communicable diseases, so this analytical survey study aimed to develop standards for control of communicable diseases in nurseries at Lattakia and to assess the procedures and practices applied to control these diseases, two groups of elements were used: the first group included thirty experts from different fields and specialties as a committee of arbitrators for the initial standards and the second included 20 nurseries selected from 80 nurseries located in Lattakia using cluster random sampling method, two tools were developed: to initial standards and to assess the procedures and practices applied to control of communicable diseases.