Public Health

 

Public Health Implications of Disater (core requirement) & Homeland Security (elective course).
As per our recent message, I have this order for week 2 belonging to the course of  for the program of my master which is Disaster Medicine and management.
– I will start with the course description (taken from the syllabus I’ve sent you before): The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of the concepts of public health as they relate to disaster management. The student will apply Noji’s five phases of a disaster to actual public health disaster events during the last 25 years. The course will focus on what preparedness actions are necessary to safeguard the health of citizens and emergency personnel during a disaster event, as well as public health disaster response and investigation. Public health issues in disaster management that are covered include water and food supply disruption and contamination, waste disposal, environmental pollution and infectious disease outbreaks. The basic principles of epidemiology and health surveillance will also be reviewed. Statistical epidemiology will not be covered in this course due to the limited time allotted to give a taste of material which, in its full form does fill an entire master’s of its own.
– The required Textbooks for this course (please see the syllabus): Required: Textbooks: 1. Ciottone, Gregory – Disaster Medicine, (2015) ISBN – available on line through library. 2. Landesman, Linda – Public Health Management of Disasters – The Practice Guide, 3rd Edition (2012) ISBN #0-87553-004-4 3. Wisner, B and Adams, J. – Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters – A Practical Guide, (2003) World Health Organization ISBN #9789241545419 4. Koenig and Schultz—Disaster Medicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practice, (2011) Cambridge University Press The topic of this week, Wk 1: Introduction to Public Health
– THE RESOURCES (Reading Assignments) OF THIS WEEK: (PLEASE USE SOME OF THEM WHEN DOIN G THE ASSIGNMENT OF THIS WEEK):
Textbook assignments

1. Landesman chapter 3: Structure and Organization of Health Management in Disaster Response

2. Landesman chapter 5: Hazard Assessment, Vulnerability Analysis, Risk Assessment and Rapid Health Assessment

3. Wisner chapter 3: Predisaster activities

Journal Articles

1. Howard Champion, et al. The State of US Trauma Systems: Public Perceptions Versus Reality?Implications for US Response to Terrorism and Mass Casualty Events.s1072751506013184.pdf (I WILL ATTACH IT AS (FILE 1)

2. The Future of Emergency Care in the United States: The Institute of Medicine Subcommittee on Prehospital Emergency Medical Services.11629_EXS.pdf (I WILL ATTACH IT AS (FILE 2)

3. Institute of Medicine. The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System.IOM Future of Emergency Care.pdf (I WILL ATTACH IT AS (FILE 3)

4. Jon Mark Hirshon, et al. Emergency Medicine and the Health of the Public: The Critical Role of Emergency Departments in US Public Health. ED public health relationship (I WILL ATTACH IT AS (FILE 4)

The assignment of this week, Week 2, is as follows:
Discuss common themes across the assigned journal articles relative to public health preparedness from the emergency and disaster healthcare perspective.
Many of you without a clinical background will be shocked or dismayed by some of the findings here. Those of you who already work in the healthcare sector may not. Regardless, the objective here is to generate a discussion where everyone learns new information.

Therefore, keep in mind the overall instructions for completion of discussion boards. Those of you who post later should not be writing exactly the same information as the students who post first. Read what has already been written and strive to paint a different picture, cite new references, add something to the discussion that nobody else has found or take a dissenting point of view.
(NOTE: YOU WILL FIND THE FOUR ATTACHMENTS FOR THE ARTICLES MENTIONED IN THE QUESTIONS)

– Please follow ALL the previous instructions AND USE THE ARTICLES (SEE ATTACHMENTS) MENTIONED IN THE QUESTION.
NOTE: Please take care of this assignment regardless of number of pages.
Please also use the number of references appropriate for this assignment questions but if it is possible and the nature of questions allows, use at least 3 or 4 references and do use some of the references mentioned in the reading assignments of this week, as the professor mentioned. Best regards!

Planning & implementation for Health promotion and Public health

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UK writers only. Need to reference Harvard style.

Write an academic essay which critically analyses the implementation of one local health promotion or public health program(can be healthy walk campaign ) in 1000 words.
Assessed against learning outcomes 2,3 and4 (uploaded file).
Cover:
1.Develop the knowledge and skills necessary for working with stakeholders and communities in health promotion and public health work.
2. Address multiple perspectives in the complex systems of health and social care.
3. Recognize the importance of collaborative working with interdisciplinary partners in health promotion and public health.
4. Critically analyse how health promotion and public health projects are developed and delivered using locally available resources.

Have you found a national policy relating to this topic?
What have you found in relation to what is being done in your chosen borought abouth the topic ( London Borough of Sutton SM6 in UK).
What are the effectiveness issues? ( what is the evidence for the activity)
What are the evaluation issues ? ( eg How is evaluation conducted )
What are the implementation issues? ( eg Staffing and resource requirements,local priority, an issue that is in the local health and wellbeing strategy)
What literature are you using?
Which stakeholders will you refer to?
Which organisations will you refer to?
What joint working and collaborative relationships and inter-disciplinary working will you refer to?
What do you know about the development of the health promotion activity you have picked?
What do you know about the way in which it is delivered in your borough?

Please mention the national policy.
REFERENCES NO OLDER THAN 3-4 YEARS, HARVARD STYLE

Intergrative Public Health

 
This assignment is intended to assess the following learning outcomes:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of public health theory covered in the public health programme.
2. Critically review the effectiveness of public health policies, strategies, agenda and projects.
3. Understand the structure and function of public health organisations and workforce.
4. Show a critical appreciation of public health is delivered in the United Kingdom.
PLEASE CAN THE WRITE LOOK AT ANY BOROUGH/ COUNCIL IN THE UK AND ANY HEALTH PROBLEMS, I HAVE ALSO ATTACHED AN EXAMPLE OF A PRIVIOUS ESSAY AND I WILL LIKE IT TO BE WRITTEN AS THE EXAMPLE ATTACHED.

Assessment 1: QUESTION
“Show how the UK Government’s 2011 public health strategy “Healthy Lives, Healthy People” seeks to address existing public health need by matching needs to policies. Local public health data and public health related research should be cited in support of your arguments. Analyse the way in which these plans will address areas of past public health failure.”

Public health in nutrition

Public health in nutrition

Professional Development Portfolio

1a Write a personal statement outlining your qualifications and experiences that demonstrate your suitability to become a public health nutritionist. Highlight core requirements of the role such as organisation, communication, project planning skills, etc. look at relevant job specifications to help develop the key information you need to demonstrate in the application. (700 words)
[Here you are advised to use the AFN (Association For Nutrition) competency requirement to form your personal statements and state what motivated you to study public health in nutrition as a course of study in your master program& write how you hope to acquire the AFN requirements.]

Reflective learning journal
2a The ability to work effectively with other people is a demand of everyday life.
Throughout professional and academic life there will be times when contributing to certain tasks within a group will contribute to the success overall. The ability to establish effective working relationships and interactive skills are highly transferrable skills.
Using Belbin approach, discuss models of reflection and learning, critically evaluating team working and group dynamics including consideration to the factors that may contribute to or impede the success of a group (450 words & highly referenced).
Using Belbin what role do you usually or naturally play? What are the defining features of this role? How close do feel these features are to your personality in a team environment and also in general based on your undergraduate or/and post graduate experience so far? 450 words.

Week 5 Q1

Please Read Chapters 25 from text: Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations
Include 2 APA scholarly references in total one must be from the above textbook and one from another source (THE REFERENCES MUST BE LESS THAN 7 YEARS)

With recent discussion in the media concerning vaccines causing Autism, what (if anything) changed in your community? What do you (or would you) say to a parent about vaccine safety?

Week 5 Q 2

Please Read Chapters 25 from text: Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations
Include 2 APA scholarly references in total one must be from the above textbook and one from another source (THE REFERENCES MUST BE LESS THAN 7 YEARS)

Choose one communicable disease from the list below, and discuss the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies you would use.
o Botulism
o Meningitis
o Mononucleosis
o Salmonellosis
o Staphylococcal Disease
o Toxoplasmosis

Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection (Part 1 of the Programmatic Assessment)

 
Write a 750- to 1,050-word reflection in which you complete the following:
•Define community, community health, community as client, and partnerships.
•Summarize your overall impression of the participating family’s community and environment.
•Note your observations about cultural diversity and vulnerable populations present in the community.
•Identify 3–5 aspects of the community that could affect residents’ health.
•Identify one Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicator (LHI) and explain how it is relevant to the community.

Note. Remove all personally identifying information such as the family members’ names. Refer to family members by initials only

Format your reflection consistent with APA guidelines.

Complete a Windshield Survey that addresses all of the components below.

Compile your Windshield Survey data in a TABLE, SPREADSHEET OR OTHER APPROPRIATE FORMAT.

OK. So the community zip code that was assigned to me was Miami, FL 33157. The professor stated that we were to Google the demographic data below by typing the zip code and finding out this type of demographic data in that zip code which will be needed information to type the paper above.

•Housing and zoning
•Transportation
•Race, culture, and ethnicity
•Open space ( free land if any)
•Social service centers (immigration, clinics, etc)
•Religion
•Boundaries (area covered by 33157)
•Stores, businesses, and industries (Macys, Target, Publix, Wind Dixie, etc)
•Health indicators and morbidity
•Commons (Playgrounds, Parks, common areas for people to share)
•Signs of decay
•Media
•Crime Rate
•Employment Rate
•Schools
•Environmental Factors
•Public Services (Fire, Police)
•Condition of the area (nice, poor, low income)
•Street people and animals (homeless people if any, animals, which type)
•Politics

YOU MUST SENT ME THE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA IN EITHER A TABLE OR SPREADSHEET OR OTHER FORM. I MUST TURN IN THE PAPER AND DEMOGRAPHIC DATA REFERENCED BACK TO THE ZIP CODE 33157. THANK YOU.

MUST BE APA FORMAT, WITH REFERENCES MINIMUM 2.

The Effects of Delisting Publicly Funded Health-Care Services

The topic is an article that answer two questions about it for the presentation. 1. What key results do the authors report? 2. What are the policy implications of these findings? The answers should be primarily focused on the information from the tables and data source. (I will attach the article and the answers for other questions later), no style or any references required, please use the bullet point format like other answers, you’ll see in the attached files.

Financing Public Health Care

Financing Public Health Care :
When identifying the characteristics of strong leadership, the research literature places a high value on the importance on the ‘soft skills’ of leaders (Riggio & Tan, 2013). The term ‘soft skills’ references leaders’ ability to interact with others. Soft skills can define strong leadership, but they should not overshadow other key skills, including management of finances. Although profit acquisition is not the end goal for the practice of public health endeavours, an awareness of financing and funding measures is indispensable for a strong leader in public health.

As a leader in public health, you will be challenged with finding ways to fund health systems. What other challenges, beyond just finding funds, will arise? For your second Individual Assignment, you will take a leadership position and research and suggest ways to solve these questions in a region of your choosing.

To complete this Individual Assignment:

Submit a paper in which you address the following:

◾Summarise the region of the world you selected. Include some brief public health information about the region, including the average length of life and the main diseases from which people die. Describe how the health care system/s are organised.
◾Evaluate methods for financing health systems in your selected region. Your evaluation should be based on factors such as the amount of financing, its reliability and how its use is governed and overseen.
◾Describe leadership challenges that you might face arising from funding issues.
◾You should fully state and justify any choices or assumptions that you make using the suggested readings for this unit as well as your own research. Include references to any sources you have used. All sources should be cited using Harvard Referencing Style.
Note: This Individual Assignment will become a part of your Final Project. You will receive feedback on this work from your Faculty Member and will be expected to incorporate any suggestions into the Final Project