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Pandemic Flu Plan. No disaster plan is without flaws or weaknesses. Based on your knowledge of disaster mitigation and response, as well as your knowledge of public health, design a tool which could be used by the PA DOH as an instructional guide to their county offices on how they plan to handle an influenza pandemic.
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Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH
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PUBLIC HEALTH
(Author’s name)
(Institutional Affiliation)
PUBLIC HEALTH
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Public Health
Instructional Guide Tool for Handling Influenza Pandemic
Section
1. Preparedness for emergency
Established risk assessment ability
Effective communication channels
Legal and ethical issues
Ensure effective response plan per pandemic phase
2. Surveillance
Ensure interpandemic surveillance to establish early and general
warning
Established an enhanced surveillance
3. Case treatment and investigation
Develop a diagnostic capacity
Ensure epidemiological investigation ability and communicate
Conduct a clinical management procedure after communication
4. Disease spread prevention
Conduct public health measures ( establish vaccination program)
Promote use of antiviral as a preventive measure
5. Sustain essential services
These include health services and other critical services as well as
recovery.
Essential
Desirable
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6. Promote and participate in study and evaluation through research
7. Participate in the implementation, revision and testing of the plan
Pandemic and implications of global spread of infectious diseases
A pandemic refers to an infectious disease epidemic with a wide spread across regions,
continents or worldwide. An endemic disease with a stable infection rate can be referred to as a
pandemic. Similarly, flu pandemic is considered to occur when seasonal flu recurrences are
generally excluded. According to scientific research outcome, it has been established that the
spread of infectious diseases in the past decades has caused a global health threat and
complicated global secu...
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