Description
Health Behavior, Communication, and Advocacy
Case Assignment
View the What Is Tuberculosis? video and re-read the scenario from Module 1 to respond to the following questions:
- Identify relevant “health behavior(s)” that contributes to increasing and/or decreasing risk factor for contracting the disease.
- Identify and describe a surveillance system that monitors disease or health-related risk factors in the United States.
- Was risk communication essential for Sara’s co-workers? Why or why not?
- Describe the key components in developing crisis and emergency risk communication messages.
Length: 4 pages, excluding title page and references. 3 cited sources from required reading NO PLAGIARISM AT ALL, 0%!!
Assignment Expectations.
Your submission should meet the guidelines on file format, in-text citations and references, scholarly sources, scholarly writing, and use of direct quotes noted under Module 1 Assignment Expectations.
Required Reading
Bates, B. R. (2016). Health communication and mass media: An integrated approach to policy and practice. Farnham, GB: Routledge.
Campbell, J. R., Sasitharan, T., & Marra, F. (2015). A systematic review of studies evaluating the cost utility of screening high-risk populations for latent tuberculosis infection. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 13(4), 325-340.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016). Crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC). Retrieved from https://emergency.cdc.gov/CERC/#tabs-1198595-2
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2005). Crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC) Basics. [Card]. Retrieved from https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/resources/pdf/basic_cerc_zcard.pdf
Pigg, R. M., Stellefson, M. L., & Paige, S. R. (2015). Will genomics alter risk assessment methodology in health behavior research? American Journal Of Health Studies, 30(3), 146-150.
Pierannunzi C, Xu F, Wallace RC, Garvin W, Greenlund KJ, Bartoli W, et al. (2016). A methodological approach to small area estimation for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Prev Chronic Dis, 13, 150480. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.150480
Stevens, A.C., Courtney-Long, E.A., Okoro, C.A., & Carroll, D.D. (2016). Comparison of 2 disability measures, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013. Prev Chronic Dis,13, 160080. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160080
Zamudio, C., Krapp, F., Choi, H. W., Shah, L., Ciampi, A., Gotuzzo, E. . . . Brewer, T. F. (2015). Public transportation and tuberculosis transmission in a high incidence setting. PLoS One, 10(2) doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115230
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: TUBERCULOSIS HEALTH BEHAVIORS
Tuberculosis Health Behaviours
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
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TUBERCULOSIS HEALTH BEHAVIORS
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Tuberculosis Health Behaviours
Question one
Health behaviours
One of the specific risk factors for Tuberculosis includes the concentration of the
Tuberculosis bacterium, popularly known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli. Research
conducted in the 20th century established that a severe infection of the disease was attributed
to a high concentration of bacilli in the sputum of the infectious person. An individual with
such a virus can infect up to twenty people on a yearly basis. Another risk factor is proximity
to an infected person or dangerous situation (Pigg 2015). The persons who are at high risk of
contracting the disease include doctors, nurses and personal caregivers. The study also
established that the infection may spread at an alarming rate if the individuals infected are
significant in number and diversified in their place of living. Any passenger seated two rows
apart with an infected person in public transport would likely contract the illness. HIV
infection is another risk factor Tuberculosis. It has established that the disease affects
individuals with HIV-AIDS more than any other individual. The condition also speeds up the
severity of Tuberculosis symptoms. Such individuals are also at risk of developing both latent
and active Tuberculosis.
Food deficiency has also increased the risk of contracting Tuberculosis. A study
conducted in the U.S in the 1960s found out that malnourished children were twice as likely
to contract Tuberculosis compared to their adequately nourished counterparts. The research
was establi...
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