Assignment:
From Public Health
"Your hometown of 100,000 is faced with a crisis as an airplane lands containing a passenger thought to have a new form of severe influenza that has recently gained the ability to spread from person to person through airborne transmission.
As the mayor of the city,
• What do you decide to do? Why? Be sure to justify your decision.
• What is your initial focus for disease control?
• What other healthcare disciplines would you include on your team? Why?
• What information is important to collect and from whom? Why?
You must Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, with in text citation, citing any sources referenced.
Use 4 articles within 5 years period. List your references in APA styles
Take a look at the questions posed in the following scenarios, which were presented at the beginning of this chapter. See now whether you can answer them.
1. Your college roommate went to hed not feeling well one night, and early the next morning. you had trouble arousing her. She was rushed to the hospital just In time to be effectively diag¬nosed and treated for meningococcal men¬ingitis. The health department recommends immediate antibiotic treatment for everyone who was in close contact with your roommate. They set up a process to watch for additional cases to be sure an outbreak is not in pro¬gress. Fortunately, no more cases occur. You ask yourself: Should your college require that all freshmen have the meningococcal vaccine before they can register for classes?
2. As a health advisor to a worldwide IIIV/AIDS foundation. you are asked to advise on ways to address the IIIV and developing tuberculosis (TB) epidemics. You arc asked to do some long-range thinking and to come up with a list of potential approaches to control the epidem¬ics, or at least ways to reduce the development of TB. The first recommendation you make is to forget about eradicating IIIV/AWS. How did you come to that conclusion?
3. Your hometown of 100.000 is faced with a cri-sis as an airplane lands containing a passenger thought to have a new form of seven: influenza that has recently gained the ability to spread from person to person through airborne transmission. As the mayor of the city, what do you decide to do?
4. You are a principal at a local high school. One of your top athletes Is In the hospital with a spreading bacterial Infection due to staphylococcus bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics. The Infection occurred after what appeared to be a minor injury during practice. As the principal, what do you decide to do?