Assignment: Community Health Nursing - Communicable Disease Tracking and Prevention
• Select a communicable diseases that has had an outbreak across international borders:
o Ebola virus outbreak 2014-2016
• Describe the outbreak of the disease selected in part A, including each of the following:
o name of the disease
o the countries involved
o the date the outbreak was discovered
o the dates the disease reached each involved country
• Analyze the epidemiological determinants and risk factors associated with the outbreak.
• Discuss the route of transmission of the selected disease.
• Discuss how an outbreak of the selected disease would impact your community at a systems level (e.g., the functioning of schools, local government, businesses, hospitals).
• Explain what the reporting protocol would be if an outbreak of the selected disease were to occur in your community.
• Discuss two strategies (e.g., patient education strategies, community education strategies) that you would recommend to prevent an outbreak of the selected disease in your community.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.