Improving The Effectiveness Of Public Health Workers Response

For example, “Hospitals have seen an influx of patients suffering from preventable diseases, the aid group said”. These preventable diseases can include diarrhea, typhoid, hepatitis A, and most commonly malaria. Two out of every five children survive into their adulthood; because of unsanitary conditions, these diseases which are not prominent in well developed countries, have pronounced themselves as some of the most dangerous diseases in the country. This decrease of sanitation can be partially blamed on the ongoing war in the Congo. The rebel groups use children soldiers to fight their opponents. Furthermore, hospitals reported that, “Since government troops and rebels began clashing in the volatile eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, ‘the numbers arriving at the hospital have gone through the roof,’ said Dr. Louis Kamate of the Virunga Referral Hospital in Goma”. Conflicts and poverty have been proven to be the main factors of child death in the Congo. In order for the society to be successful, they must put an end to this terrible aspect of the country.

If a health clinic providing basic services to the world’s most vulnerable people is withheld the large amount of foreign assistance that currently comes from the United States government, all diseases will flourish, including epidemics such as Zika and Ebola (Barry-Jester, 2016). We contribute to more unstable political environments (Crimm, 2007, p.615) and more refugees that we increasingly refuse to help when we take away aid that would countries meet the needs of their citizens.

I would like to propose that the World Health Organization takes a more active role in this area and create a more sophisticated quick response branch that embeds personnel in an effective manner. This will take much logistical planning and preparedness, perhaps the successes could be used analogously in this country to strengthen FEMA’s responses.

With the increasing violence throughout the world, an increase in healthcare workers has also increased. Providing care to people that have come from war torn areas need their beliefs and values to be respected like any other culture. It should also be considered that these particular groups may need specialized care dealing with trauma. With the increase in the need for providers, traveling healthcare providers need to consider the environments they are entering into and the differences in culture (Andrews & Boyle,

The country I have choose to utilize in the global case study is Haiti. The crisis is hurricane Matthew. As the lead nurse in a shelter working in this country and people are pouring into the shelter it is crucial to provide effective care and achieve desired patient outcomes. It is important to assess and triage the population properly, manage and prevent the spread of infection, and delegate tasks accordingly.

“A disaster is an event that is a natural or man-made occurrence that can disrupt or destroy the lives of those it affects” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). “Management of a disaster includes four phases; prevention, preparedness, response and recovery” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). To date there have been 154 hospital-based shootings, which resulted in 235 dead or injured. (C.Catlett, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to identify emergency preparedness and response to hospital based shootings, and the role of the public health nurse in such a disaster.

In conclusion, that's why I think the U.S should accept more refugees into the country. Many people are being affected with all the violence and all are in need of medical help that the U.S can provide to

The emergency events caused by infectious disease, natural or anthropogenic causes with the potential to overwhelm or otherwise disrupt routine local capacities due to their timing, scale or unpredictability should be communicated properly and routinely which requires rapid knowledge transfer and uptake (Khan et al., 2017, p. 2).

As the rifle and machine gun fire exchanges in the Syrian Civil War not only lives are lost but many innocent men, women and children are left in need of emergency care. Cecily Hilleary, a traveling journalist for VOA World News, mentions “the United Nations estimates the civil war raging in Syria has left more than 2.5 million people in dire need of food, water, drugs and medical supplies,” not including the already 25,000, and counting, deceased from the war (VOA par. 9). The medical aid is minimal in Syria due to the low number of volunteers and medical staff. Cecily tells the stories of crowded hospitals with over 250-350 beds being piled up upon with hurt Syrian individuals, many being innocent women and

This research paper looks at the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). The National Disaster Medical System is a federally coordinated system that helps build the nations medical response capability during major medical or public health incidents that states and local communities cannot handle by themselves (USDHHS, 2015). The research in this article draws upon the history of the establishment of NDMS, and how other hospital teams were first created. The focus of this paper is to explain the goals, mission statement, objectives, and funding of the NDMS. The final section of this paper will explain how the NDMS fits into Emergency Management at the state and local levels, and explain all the different teams in NDMS medical and health professionals can sign up for.

Conflict induced displacement is hazardous to health. Ironically, the displacement proves deadlier than the attack. Mortality during the acute emergency phase of a displacement can reach sixty times normal rates. The baseline crude mortality

As the head of a small aid agency in Congo, our duty is to cater the refugee’s health dilemmas and concerns. We must attend to their needs by providing them the right health services suited for their condition. Like what is happening in the camp, the refugees are in need of cornea transplant because of the poor water condition which resulted to them being blind. Therefore, we must do any possible means of giving them enough corneas and adequate protection they need by figuring out how to eliminate the peculiar parasite in the water. Aside from that, incoming refugees would be possible knowing that civil war is happening at the moment so we also need to accommodate them

The citizens are experiencing the unnerving violence in part by the Houthis, as well as the controversial airstrikes done by Saudi forces. The most recent air strike was on October 29th when a bomb hit three houses and killed all residents, including children ("Yemeni president rejects UN peace plan | Africanews", 2016). Since the conflict began in September 2014, about 4,125 civilians have been killed and about 7,207 have been critically injured. About 14 million citizens are in need of medical assistance, but the Republic of Yemen Government has been unable to provide funds for government buildings, which include medical facilities and welfare programs. Due to insanitation, a cholera outbreak was announced just recently in early October. Without the necessary medical treatment needed, about 46 citizens were declared dead along with 42 deaths associated with acute watery diarrhea (News). Human trafficking has increased since the beginning of the conflict, with the people most at risk being these internally displaced Yemenis and refugees from the Horn of Africa ("The World Factbook: YEMEN"). However, there are a number of Non-Governmental Organizations that have been involved pre- and post-conflicts. These organizations, or NGOs, only have access to a small portion of those in need, and they mostly focus on the short-term goals for the citizens such as

The authors Sharara and Kanj of “War and Infectious Diseases: Challenges of the Syrian Civil War” seek to explore the effects that the extensive Civil War that is occurring in Syria has on the spread of diseases. The spread of devastating diseases that have occurred in relation to the Civil War are destroying the health care centers and all available preventive care in Syria. According to the authors, the war not only physical destroyed health centers, it has depleted the amount of doctors, and has introduced fighters from other countries that bring in diseases. Also the environmental conditions of war have made individuals, especially the malnourish susceptible to diseases. Another effect of the war that was stated was that diseases that were

Although volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontiers are commonly stationed in various countries with a dire healthcare worker shortage, regions with refugee camps and internally displaced persons are also a focus for this organization. Refugees and internally displaced persons often come from war torn regions and live in close confines with poor sanitation and limited resources. These living situations become a breeding ground for diseases and other health issues like malnutrition, yet the individuals lack access to any sort of healthcare. The organization also responds quickly when regions suddenly experience an increased need for healthcare, for example in times of an epidemic or a natural disaster. Medecins Sans Frontiers’ involvement across its varying regions and their attempt to address a broad spectrum of healthcare truly show how altruistic the organization is to individuals regardless of race, gender, or religion.