epidemiology: Public health surveillance, field investigation, analytic studies, evaluations, linkages, and policy development. The core functions of epidemiology lay down a foundation on which epidemiologists can begin to work from. This paper will look at the benefits of incorporating all six of these functions into a working plan when health officials, medical personnel, first responders, etc., encounter a disease or illness that needs to be identified, treated and contained. Keywords: public health surveillance
take to evaluate how well a health agency is meeting the needs of the population it serves. The summary of my findings will be presented in a summary report format. A case study
An Ethical Analysis of the Chicago Heat Wave MPH 603 Ethical & Political Issues in public Health Benedictine University Salma Ali Abstract The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave was the worst weather-related disaster in the United States. Temperatures rose to dangerous high records which cost the lives of over 700 people. The conditions that contributed to such a high death toll were not just from the natural disaster, but lack of proper planning. Unfortunately the city of Chicago had no official
leader in consulting and technology services. In this letter, I provide some background about my education and credentials relevant to this position. I believe I have the required qualifications for this position. I earned my MD from Kabul Medical University specializing in Family Medicine. I then earned an Executive MBA in Health Management and Administration from Preston University Pakistan. Subsequently, I earned my Dual MPH degree in Epidemiology and Global Health, and my PhD in Epidemiology at the
A brief introduction of the development of this policy will be provided followed by an evaluation of the policy and recommendations on how to improve the policy. The report will be concluded with a discussion on the impacts that the policy brings about. 1.2 Background Public health care is an emotive issue that remains a major concern of the public in our country. With the rising costs of financing public healthcare systems and the pressing aging
1998-2010 This case study is based on results obtained from the public injecting site in the urban location of Sydney’s Kings Cross between 1998 and 2010. In exposing and analysing the history behind the initiative of the NSW Governments harm minimisation program of ‘Medically Supervised Injecting Centres’ (MSIC). This paper offers a snapshot into the public policy and responses associated with public injecting and metanarrative directions of the program management and evaluation methods that were
provide court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) for certain people with a mental illness who, in view of their treatment history and present circumstances, are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision (Office of Mental Health) (OMH, 2012). On August 9, 1999 the Governor signed Kendra’s Law which created a statutory framework for court-ordered AOT (OMH, 2012). The law is named after an incident that occurred in a New York City subway station in January, 1999. Kendra Webdale
that receiving vaccinations would cause their child to have autism or other serious health problems. Andrew Wakefield, a former British gastroenterologist and medical researcher submitted his 1998 research paper to The Lancet, where he claimed that the MMR vaccine causes autism and bowel disease. Other studies were conducted and all of them refuted that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism or autism and other health issues thus discrediting him where he lost his medical license. Two years after the
Traditional model of primary health care that involves physician-centered approaches are often inadequate for addressing the complex health needs that residents of low-income neighborhoods encounter (Whelan et al., 2010). Therefore, if the Health Bus provides services that are culturally appropriate and addresses the needs of clients, it is anticipated that participants would be satisfied with the services and would use the Health Bus services. Evaluation may show that the Health Bus team is addressing
Evaluation of Rural Epidemiological Event Response Priority health services are generally the one that need to be voiced first. In this stance, as the study presented by Shabila and fellows, though the initial step of prioritization has been taken by implementing the programs in the primary healthcare centers, the focus group feedbacks have been presented from the provider perspective and subsequent challenges (Shabila et al., 2012). On the other hand, the sustainability of the healthcare systems