Public Health Surveillance Paper

William Beveridge was a man whom was asked by government to write a report on the best and most effective ways to help those on low incomes. This was after the Second World War when people felt they needed rewarding, which the government responded to by promising to create a more equal society. In Beveridge’s report in December 1942, he proposed that all people of a working age should contribute, which would benefit people who were sick, unemployed, retired, or widowed.

Problem Statement: The World Health Association defines ‘good’ health as: “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” However, in the United States, access to care and funding for mental health care are grossly neglected and underfunded in comparison to other aspects of health care.

This paper will discuss the communicable disease influenza. It will discuss the causes, symptoms, and treatments, as well as the demographics of interest. It will also discuss the determinants of health and how these factors contribute to the development of influenza. Included in this paper will be information on host, agent, and environmental factors. Lastly it will explain the role of the community health nurse in caring for those affected with influenza and the role they play in education and prevention.

Chapter twelve focuses on the overlap of a number of view points in the public health, risk communication, Crisis communication and health care reform. The chapter talked about public health, as well what public health meant and it defined it as involvement of the well-being of the entire communities. Not only that but the chapter has great observation of the rick and the public relations profession that is designed to protect human in our society. The booked mentioned the three tradition which are one, helping people who are insufficiently concerned appreciate that a serious risk exists

If I had to hold a career in a Public health department, then I would choose to be Public Health Advisor in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) because it’s salary range is $88,305 to 114,802 per year, which is enough amount of money for my life expensive. Since, is the agency who we Americans trust with our lives because CDC is premier heath promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency, which shows that my job out look is very adventure because advisor’s duties are creating plan how we public health department can collaborate with local, state, Federal state international government, and various in public as non-profit, private and other health – related organization. Also, develop public health messages with subject matter

Three health problems that are affecting the community are diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and asthma. Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the pancreas. It is the body’s inability to produce insulin. During the past five years, diabetes is up on the rise. The disease is becoming an epidemic (Bingham, 2016). About 18 million people died from the disease annually. People are becoming increasingly overweight and obese. It has been argued that it is close to two billion people around the world who are over weight and over 300 million obese. It is estimated that over 2 hundred million people between ages 40 to 59 years old are diagnosed with diabetes and that number expected to increase to over 3 hundred million by 2025 (Bingham, 2016). Diabetes is one of the major health problem that is affecting the community I live.

Many issues are at the forefront of public health, but prevention is still the topic most discussed by health professionals. This will always be the way to break the cycle of diseases and many other health-related problems. Using the epidemiology triangle and the basics of epidemiology teenage pregnancy will be examined. This issue is still the number one preventable problem in the United States because it is not a disease, it does not “accidentally” transmit to one person to the other, and it will continue to cause problems for the young parents.

Hepatitis B is an infection caused by hepatitis B virus. It affects the liver and can lead to acute or chronic hepatitis B, carrier, or liver cancer.

According to Global Health Observation (GHO) data, 71.4 years was the average life expectancy at birth of the global population in 2015. Base on the database and information provided by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004, 58.8 million deaths were estimated globally of which 27.7 million death were females and 31.1 million males. More than half of all death were people who are 60 years and older and 22 million were people who are 70 years and older. Looking at the statistics distribution of death by age between different regions, income plays a great role in life expectancy. In Africa region, due to low-income those countries, 46% death were children aged under 15 year and 20% people reached 60 years and over compare to high-income countries

The public health advocacy plays an important role in creating conditions and environments which promote health and prevent both diseases and injuries. In achieving this role, there are multiple communications and advocacy strategies that the public health work with to address ongoing health issues depending on what they want to accomplish, their target audiences and who they want to be involved. Advocacy communications focus on influencing specific audiences and messages to promote policy change. It requires a clear vision and objectives, a well thought out program and knowing the audience with monitoring and evaluation indicators. To better understand what the communication and advocacy strategies are, this paper will compare and contrast the difference between using the media advocacy campaign and mass media in promoting public health policies. In addition, the

Disease surveillance is not a new phenomenon that has just appeared over the last 15 years. Monitoring the spread of disease around the globe has been a challenge health practitioners for hundreds of years. However, the current state of disease surveillance system have become a critical necessity with the increasing threats from terrorists and our ability to easily travel and trade goods more freely around the world.

Explain what is meant by disease surveillance and briefly explain, with suitable examples, the role of some important agencies and organizations (national and international) involved with disease surveillance. (15 mark)

There are more than six million children being treated for mental health issues (Hawkins, & Jenson, 2016). For that reason, children with mental health issues are at a higher risk of living with these disorders as they transition into adulthood (Hawkins, & Jenson, 2016). In order to live a productive life with a positive emotional well-being a social worker must verify the reasons why children are feeling depressed and if therapy or medication are effective when treating them. Also, in order to decrease the percentage of children developing mental health issues the social worker will need to help the children and assist them with the best interventions and give them the proper care to develop positive results.

Question 1 - Using HIV/AIDS as an example to discuss why public health authorities need to conduct public health surveillance and to describe how surveillance system is managed in Australia (9 marks) (Up to 800 words)

The healthcare field can be observed from different angles. From my perspective, healthcare is designed much like the human body in the sense that each and every part works together to support and complement the other. Public Health is a critical part of healthcare because it carries the main disciplines of our health systems that gives us knowledge on how to address a broad range of issues. From proactive measures such as developing preventive medicine to analyzing health disparities, I believe this is the driving factor that makes public health more prominent in healthcare today.