Your Discussion should be 3-4 paragraphs in length, detailing your thoughts and

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Your Discussion should be 3-4 paragraphs in length, detailing your thoughts and position using 2-3 readings references for support. Also be sure to pose 1-2 well thought out questions from which your colleagues can formulate a response or generate further discussion.

Scenario: You have just been accepted as an intern at an organization primarily concerned with disease surveillance and prevention efforts. As part of your employment, you are required to learn about and be able to consult with outside officials on a disease of global concern on behalf of the organization.

Research and discuss an infectious disease that poses the threat of a pandemic and may require isolation or quarantine efforts. Provide a short overview of the disease including etiology, transmission, and public health characteristics of the disease.

Reflect on the social impact of isolation or quarantine should an outbreak or threat of widespread transmission occur. Would there be a question of moral responsibility or do other factors take precedence? What would you personally advise in regard to governments or healthcare organizations imposing mandatory immunization, isolation, or quarantine?

How would you personally feel if you were the subject of isolation or quarantine? What would you hope government officials, healthcare professionals, or even your own friends or family do to aid you in this time?

Here are the recources,

Psychosocial impacts of quarantine during disease outbreaks and interventions that may help to relieve strain
http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/publications/Psychosocial-impacts-of-quarantine.pdf

Attitudes Toward The Use Of Quarantine In A Public Health Emergency In Four Countries
http://www.commed.vcu.edu/IntroPH/Communicable_Disease/attitudes2Quarantinehamar06.pdf

Explanation / Answer

The most important way to reduce the spread of diseases. If is hand washing always was regularly with soap and water.also important is to get a vaccine for those infection and viruses. It helps to reducing risk of common infection. Use a tissue or cough and sneeze into your arm cannot your hands .turn away from other people. Dispose of the tissue immediately. Wash hands after cough and sneezing. Do not share cups and glasses or cutlery. Encourage to healthy eating habits. Gloves are worn as a barrier to protect the wearer's hands from contamination or to prevent the transfer of organisations already on the hands.if you are sick avoid close contact with others. Get shots to avoid diseases and fight the spread of infection. Having an infection control plan.making sure ventilation system are working properly.

Advise to protect yourself and avoid the risk and complications of illness. To protect the people around you .to prevent the resurgence of vaccine preventable infection and disease. Vaccine preventable disease cause suffering, complications and after effects. They may also cause death catching certain disease. Naturally offers subsequent protection against these diseases in the same way that vaccination. People who are vaccinated against a diseases will not catch it.as a result they cannot transmit it till others. Vaccine against to helps to prevent diseases helps to deactivate their ability to transmission diseases. How ever they are still able to stimulate the learning to defend it self against those particular diseases. I feel very guilty. Visit from family and friends may be decrease. Isolation limit number of interaction to family.

Very irritable mood should be occur.low energy level,lack of motivation, Lonelyfeeling, social withdrawal of my activity. I feel spend more time to alone. Depression also occur. Hopelessness and Powerlessness also occur. I feel suicide thought.

Supportive therapy should be given for isolation person. Telephone not only gives the reassurance of being able to request help in emergency but allows the opportunity to chat of family and friends technology formus such as the Internet may provide relive from boredom and Loneliness. Encourage befriending scheme. Alternative therapies can relieve Loneliness. Counselling for support mental health.

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