Assignment: Public Health's Role in Infectious Disease Control
Assignment Objectives: Describe how biosecurity is used to minimize biological threats. Discuss the policies concerning development of medical countermeasures.
Assignment:
Read the Trust of America's Health report, Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from infectious disease.
Write a 600-word essay and cite the references in APA style. Use outline below as topics to guide development of your essay from your research.
1. Background: Describe public health's role in the prevention of infectious disease outbreaks and response to outbreaks.
2. Disease Outbreak Prevention: What are some of the challenges that threaten the ability of U.S. public health programs to successfully prevent or respond to disease outbreaks?
3. Healthcare Facilities & Antibiotic Resistance: Explain why healthcare associated infections and antibiotic resistance are serious public health problems.
Readings:
Katz, R., Chapter 11, Surveillance and Chapter 13, Local Preparedness to Global Governance of Disease: the Path to Security, Essentials of Public Health Preparedness, Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, 2013.
Levi, J., Segal, L. M., Liebermann, D. A., & St. Laurent, R. (2013). Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from infectious disease. Washington, DC: Trust for America's Health. Retrieved from http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/TFAH2013OutbreaksRpt14.pdf