Question

Imagine that you are a public health nurse, and you and your colleagues have determined that the threat of a deadly new strain of influenza indicates a need for a mass inoculation program in your community.

0What public health data would have been used to determine the need for such a program? Where would you locate public health data? What data will be collected to determine the success of such a program? How might you communicate this to other communities or internationally?

Answer 1

Answer :-

a). Public health surveillance is a tool to estimate the health status and behaviour of the community.

Because surveillance helps to measure directly what happen in community.

surveillance helps to measure both need for intervention and effects of intervention simultaneously at same same time.

The purpose of surveillance is to empower our decision making capabilities as well as helps to manage influenza pandemic effectively .

Surveillance:-

Active surveillance :- Direct contact with community and health worker ist give more accurate data about new strain influenza as well as it's so expensive.

passive surveillance:- A indirect methodology to collect data , By head of community or othe health care workers.

B). Public health data should be locate in

following health agencies:-

[ Centres  of pandemic control and prevention ]

• world health organisations
• Agency of health and research centres
• united states central bureau

C). The data should be collected in pandemic is following:-

collect all data of patients particulars name , age , sex , adress, medication, all regarding data about respiratory problems.

Total number of family members, if need of isolation . How much rooms in house ?

1. Total number people who receives vaccines .

2. Total number of people who suffered from disease .

D). Data will be to determine the success of these programmes :-

Obtaining Real time data

Cross - jurisdictional variability.

Availablity of technology

Expolre standardisation of information management system.

smiplify the data and reporting requirements.

E). We communicate internationally and in other communities bye sharing data which collected by a specific community by following worldwide health agencies these are following:-

WHO :- world health organisation Iam given collected data to WHO agencies to share worldwide its share government to government internationally.

National security and pandemic united nation agencies.

International governance of global health pandemics.

These agencies share data and communicate worldwide and also in communities .