{"id":34252,"date":"2023-09-21T02:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-3-discussion-humanitarian-emergencies-and-communicable-diseasescontains-unread-posts\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T02:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T02:55:20","slug":"week-3-discussion-humanitarian-emergencies-and-communicable-diseasescontains-unread-posts","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-3-discussion-humanitarian-emergencies-and-communicable-diseasescontains-unread-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 Discussion: Humanitarian Emergencies and Communicable DiseasesContains unread posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1.&nbsp;Mass vaccination after a disaster:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">There was a natural disaster that occurred and has led to an infectious disease outbreak (your choice of&nbsp;one that is vaccine-preventable). &nbsp;Those affected by the disaster are settled in temporary locations with high population densities, inadequate food and shelter, unsafe water, poor sanitation and infrastructure that has been compromised or destroyed.<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;There is a vaccine available for the infectious disease but there are not enough doses to give to all who are at-risk due to the natural disaster. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You are the public health official in charge of infectious disease prevention. &nbsp;Devise a plan to administer the vaccine to the population. &nbsp;Will you use a lottery system or target specific sub-populations? &nbsp;How will you track and monitor those who are vaccinated? Use the attributes of the infectious disease to provide reasoning behind your plan. &nbsp;What other prevention techniques that can be used to supplement the vaccination plan?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.&nbsp;Mass vaccination after a disaster: There was a natural disaster that occurred and has led to an infectious disease outbreak (your choice of&nbsp;one that is vaccine-preventable). &nbsp;Those affected by the disaster are settled in temporary locations with high population densities, inadequate food and shelter, unsafe water, poor sanitation and infrastructure that has been compromised or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1294],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34252"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34252"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}