Public Health Authorities Need to Conduct Public Health Surveillance

Education of HIV/AIDS is very important to help prevent from becoming infected with this deadly disease. There are many factors that are being looked at that may be associated with the affect of the transmission of HIV such as, gender relationships, social exclusion and poverty, etc. These issues happen every day and health care providers must help those infected with HIV/AIDS to start treatment right away (Mayo Group, 2010). A national health policy must formulate different guidelines what will enable the policy to help the government govern the public. This stage is really important to help bring health care policies together.

The Chicago Department of Public health exemplifies a public health department that is extremely proactive and supportive of initiatives to eradicate or significantly decreasing the incidence of STI/HIV /AIDS in the City of Chicago. To this end, the Chicago Department of Health monitors the incidences of new cases in the city, while constantly monitoring the progression or regression of the conditions of patients already affected by the HIV virus. Statistical data is collected through the avenue set up for health care providers to report all pertinent information about newly diagnosed HIV or an unusual turn of events with old HIV cases. furthermore, the Chicago Department of Public health ( CDPH) through it monitoring programs is able identify threats, determine which health care services is need by a community and the target population. For example in the month of November their target segments were gays and bisexual African American men, because both groups were disproportionately impacted by the HIV outbreak during the previous summer,

Since the first occurrence of an HIV/AIDS case in Australia in 1982, Australia has been responding proactively to come up with preventative methods and treatments for the illness. Over the last ten years, we have committed over $600 million

One of the campaigns is lung cancer campaign ‘got a cough, get a check!’ it shows the symptoms of lung cancer, saying that if you are coughing a lot or if you cough up blood, neck pain and shortness of breath to see your doctor. This will mean that people can be checked earlier than leaving it for it to just get worse. Lung cancer is the most common cause of death ‘’it is known that smokers and ex-smokers have a particularly high risk of developing the disease: although most lung cancers are related to smoking, 10% of people with lung cancer have never smoked.’’ (http://lungcancercampaign.org/patient-information/). Which links to the smoking

One way that national and international agencies are involved with state and local health departments is the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), which is a nationwide collaboration that allows local, state, territorial, federal, and international health agencies to share information about disease-related issues. Health departments work with healthcare providers, hospitals, laboratories, and others to increase monitoring, control, and prevention of diseases which allows for collection, analysis, and sharing of data and works to increase awareness of potential outbreaks. By interacting with one another, public health agencies are able to provide up-to-date information for their constituents and can even have

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 20 million of infections (including HIV) occur each year.

HIV/AIDS education and counseling’ condom distribution to prevent sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases; referrals to substance abuse treatment and other medical and social services distribution of alcohol swabs to help prevent abscesses and other bacterial infections; on-site HIV testing and counseling and crisis intervention; screening for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and other

The purpose of evaluating public health surveillance systems is to ensure that problems of public health importance are being monitored efficiently and effectively (CDC, 2001). Results that are generated from surveillance systems are not always free of errors; therefore, an evaluation is essential to produce a high quality STI surveillance system for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV-AIDS, and Syphilis programs. Evaluating these errors and shortcomings will allow for higher accuracy in results and will further lend a hand in disseminating findings in an efficient and timely fashion. The analysis being provided, as well as other reports, will drastically play a role in helping Summerville with the burden of STIs. It is important to assess the quality of the surveillance system in order to maintain relevant surveillance data, otherwise time, money, and effort will have gone to waste.

According to the CDC (2015), more than one million people are living with HIV in the United States, and more than 50,000 become newly infected each year. Unfortunately, one in five Americans living with HIV are unaware of their infection. I believe using the strategy which stresses the use of the 10 essential services of public health will help reduce the incidence of HIV in our

So, the issue at hand and the recommendation concerning preventive health and counseling prevent sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus begins with the efficacy of risk reduction (sexual behavior), prevention, intervention, and clinician counseling deliver in a variety of settings (clinician or non-clinician).

Nice job, I like how you provided information on the five sources you provided. All five are great resources to monitoring, reporting on health status with emerging health, health problems, alerting, recognizing potential threats, and evaluating risk factors. Surveillance play important role in public health. Furthermore, the five sources do all of that to protect and keep America safe. Each of these surveillance sources are well organized and have good organization structures; therefore, make the appropriate resources. According to (2015) The World Health Organization (WHO) defines public health surveillance as the “continuous, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data needed for the planning, implementation,

Public health surveillance guides attempt to detect and record disease and injuries, evaluate the impact of interventions and help in the management and recovery from large- scale public health incidents. With today’s pressure and demand for public health to provide information, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is improving the complicated job of public health disease surveillance.

Public health surveillance is the continuous systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of data which is used in public health action planning and execution to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health (German R.R., Lee L.M., Horan J.M., Milstein R.L., 2001). To determine the existence of any prospective disease outbreak, the traditional public health surveillance system focuses on the collection and monitoring of the confirmed clinical and laboratory diagnosis data in a retrospective way, such as the daily counts of confirmed laboratory results of particular disease (R. D. Fricker, 2010; Shmueli & Burkom, 2010). Although these indicators provide direct evidence of the current disease burden and potential

“Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems (WHO, 2015)”. “Various methods can be used to carry out epidemiological investigations: surveillance and descriptive studies can be used to study distribution; analytical studies are used to study determinants (WHO, 2015)”.This paper discusses about epidemiology of HIV infection, including factors that contribute the development of the disease, epidemiologic triangle, role of community health nurse and the national organization that address the communicable disease.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a health concern that has claimed millions of lives globally. Despite ongoing prevention efforts such as education and medical treatment, this disease and its associated syndrome continues to be a public health challenge. HIV is a pandemic disease that infects people in every region of the world. The borderless nature of this disease makes it an international health concern. The non-discriminator nature of this disease makes prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, an especially high priority for public health organizations; this disease does not discriminate against race or gender. Some countries bare more burden than others; HIV/AIDS is more prevalent and has higher mortality rates in developing countries. This has detrimental effects on third world countries that are already struggling with social and economic challenges, such as poverty, and poor infrastructure. In many places people with AIDS face social stigma, this adds to the challenges individuals with the disease encounter. This makes it difficult for the sick in many regions to seek medical help.