Effective Disease Outbreak Plan

M1: Explain how to manage an outbreak of infection in health or social care setting

John M. Barry has written award winning books including the Influenza pandemic of 1918, and the great Mississippi flood. Being invited by 2 presidential administrations, Bush and Obama, to advise on preparedness for pandemics and pandemic response. Having also advised on state, federal, UN and world health organizations on influenza, water disasters, risk communication and crisis management Barry is more than qualified to talk about such a topic considering his past of assisting the world with disaster prevention and response.

This information will help investigators cluster the symptoms with a particular disease and rule out irrelevant information. The surveillance of the components gather in this step will put a perspective on the abnormal health events that are occurring on the outbreak timeline.

The above condition is a great platform for applying the epidemiology triangle. This will show the correlation of how this infection can become an epidemic if intervention is not swift. In addition, the supporting data from credible websites will be an invaluable asset in determining the causation of the condition. For this case, I shall conduct an investigation of the E. coli outbreak at the Cleveland County Fair in North Carolina.

It is important to have systems that are constructed similarly and able to communicate with each other. Syndromic surveillance has been accepted as a way to monitor disease outbreaks and bioterrorism attacks (Chen et al., 2010). According to Henning (2004), “Syndromic surveillance systems seek to use existing health data in real time to provide immediate analysis and feedback to those charged with investigation and follow-up of potential outbreaks.” Additionally, “The fundamental objective of syndromic surveillance is to identify illness clusters early, before diagnoses are confirmed and reported to public health agencies, and to mobilize a rapid response, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality” (Henning, 2004). Evaluation of the success of this type of surveillance can be monitored based on the data reported to and archived by the

This review will focus on best-practice crisis management within the context of an influenza outbreak. Research was drawn from books and peer-reviewed journals to ensure reliability of the

Sometimes, despite everybody's best efforts, outbreaks of disease caused by contaminated food occur. The public health system then does detective work to find the source of the contamination and to stop it. We apply the methods of epidemiology to learn what the sick people have in common and locate the source of the contamination. Then we make sure that all contaminated food is removed from the supply.

John Hopkins University additionally reported that it is possible to minimize disease outbreaks and deaths during natural disasters and emergencies of a complex nature through "introduction of disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness, effective prevention, and control including case management." ( ) Failure to implement well coordinated response that is both "timely and effective" is likely to result in such as the "re-emergence of old disease threats" as well as "outbreaks of changed

To control an outbreak as well as keep it check or even possibly get rid of it, you need to have help available and as well as the support of the community. Informing and working with those that are at risk can be a big help in keeping down the spread of a disease. If you try and tell someone something they do not want to believe or do not want to hear, they will just ignore you anyway and do as they wish even if it is not what is best for the group as a whole.

Internationally, there are consistently mass spreadings of diseases especially in indigent countries. Just in the previous year there has been an outbreak of ebola and without these diseases being controlled, they will continue to spread and terminate mass hoards of people. In the past, quarantines were issued, sanitation was enforced, and health regulations were established. In the face of the black plague during the 14th century, the quarantine was ineffective due to the lack of control and coordination of the disease. Yet, when there was an outbreak of the disease in Indiana in 1994, it was able to be controlled within 2 months. In regards to sanitation, the need for safe water and hygiene is still a major problem. Many diseases are the source of dirty drinking water and poor sanitation. Organizations, such as the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization, were set up to take measures towards controlling these

Reflecting on the 2009 HINI influenza pandemic discussed in class, if a more severe pandemic occurred today, then the kinds of surveillance systems that the CDC should invoke are first and foremost to rely on the existing surveillance systems in place. The famous Eisenhower quote that “Plans are nothing, planning is everything” (Landesman & Weisfuse, 2014, p. 306) bears particular relevance to this issue. What President Eisenhower likely meant was that it is not the particular plans in place during an emergency that are paramount, but the process of preparing and planning for an event such that all members of the team are aware of their specific task as well as the overall roles of the others involved and the ultimate goal to be achieved that is most important in achieving the particular emergency management task, especially given the uncertainty that will ultimately ensue. In the instant case, by having an existing surveillance system in place that has been regularly trained upon and exercised, then members have established relationships that they can draw upon when the unexpected occurs. More particularly, preexisting local, state, and federal influenza surveillance systems are already in place to provide data on the location and severity of influenza for each season. Relying on these existing foundations of data collection will help to build a

We will visit as many houses, facilities, and many other buildings to locate everyone. The police department will be in charge of making sure everyone exits the building safely, to check people for infection, and to direct the non-effected to the nearest escape route. Before we leave we will instruct the citizens to pack lightly with essentials such as food, bottled water, and first aid kits. Also, we want to take the highest safety precautions when dealing with infected because we do not want any other to become infected so masks will be handed out for airborne diseases.

Local health authorities are responsible for delivery of healthcare aspects of the plan, including vaccination and antiviral treatment, as well as local surveillance (DOH, 2011). However, the impact of a pandemic will potentially be felt across every sector of society and thus the pandemic plans extend to recommendations for all business and public sectors, including essential services such as water/sewage, energy, education, food supplies and transport. They also extend to the media as they have a role in disseminating information, and to recommendations for Ministry of Defence (MOD) involvement to provide assistance if civil capabilities are exceeded (DOH, 2011). Part 2 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 allows for emergency powers to be established in extreme situations and The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 extends powers to the level of the individual allowing restrictions to be imposed on an individual provided they are in the best interests of public health (DOH,

In the first step to detect outbreak you should confirm diagnosis, define and identify cases, establish existence of an outbreak and prepare field work. For example, a case presented itself on botulism in Argentina with two different men coming into a hospital with signs of botulinum. The signs included difficulty walking, drooping eyelids, double vision, and inability to lift things. Fever was not a symptom of this disease so; the physician had to run test on the patients to determine a diagnosis of botulism. It is very important in this step that the doctors or medical professionals notify the ministry of health because botulism outbreaks can be lethal and it is a state of public emergency. In this step, it is important for Public health

The public health sector can best survive various threats through effective planning through which realistic goals are established. Essentially, public health preparedness and planning requires a strong understanding of citizens’ needs at all levels. The state of Michigan achieves this health requirement though the state’s Division of Emergency Preparedness & Response (DEPR) along with the division’s collaboration with tribal governments and local health departments. This report focuses on the Public Health Preparedness Capabilities Planning Model. The report is based on the state of Michigan in which it assesses the organizational roles and responsibilities, resource elements, and performance.