Full critique of outbreak response to a communicable disease
Full critique of outbreak response to a communicable disease
Case study 1: Full critique of outbreak response to a communicable disease
You will choose one communicable disease to fully discuss. You must be able to address all parts of the assignment. If you cannot, then choose a different communicable disease. Please message the instructor no later than week 4 with your disease of choice. Students must use proper APA format. Student must demonstrate proper use of vocabulary.
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You will discuss the following:
1. Introduction
a. Discuss biology of disease including transmission, clinical aspects, type of agent, and any other relevant biological aspects.
b. Epidemiology of disease including current morbidity and mortality statistics. You must also describe any relevant outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics that have occurred in the last 10 years (you may go back further than this if relevant). In addition, provide a table that summarizes all outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics and include relevant information (ex. when, where, statistics). You must give an overall picture of the disease and how it has affected public health and/or continues to.
c. Current surveillance procedures on disease both nationally and internationally
d. Thesis statement – must provide a proper analytical thesis statement – https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/01/
2. Body – you will choose the most recent 2 outbreaks of the disease and compare and contrast how they were handled including the topics below. You must provide an insightful and factual account of what occurred and critically analyze the control methods used.
a. Emergency and Disaster Management if in context of outbreaks including response time to outbreak and outbreak investigation
b. Ethics surrounding patient and contact control of the disease
c. Policy – ex. does national and international policy agree?, were changes made due to the outbreaks?
d. Public Health Interventions – describe the specific interventions that were used to stop transmission. If interventions were available but not used, include this.
3. Conclusion: Provide a critique of the response and the interventions used (remember to properly defend your thesis in this section)
a. Was the response in line with health policy guidelines? explain
b. Was the response effective? Why or why not?
c.Discuss changes that have been implemented or need to be implemented for future outbreaks.
Submission: You must submit your completed paper through this assignment link as it will be subjected to TurnItIn. Save your file in the following format before you submit: Last Name, First Initial Topic (i.e. Jones, L Measles Eradication). Failure to submit the file in the proper format will lead to point deductions.
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