Peruse the Pennsylvania Pandemic Flu Plan
Pandemic Flu Case Analysis Assignment
Public Health Implications of Disasters
Week 9 – Emerging Infections, Pandemic and Bioterrorism
Textbook assignments: Required
Ciottone chapter 22: Vaccines
Wisner Chapter 11
Landesman chapter 12: Public Health Response to Emerging Infections and Biological Incidents
Reading:
Journal articles and other readings-required
MarynMcKenna. Anatomy of a Pandemic: Emergency Departments Woefully Unprepared for a Bird Flu Outbreak.Bird flu.pdf
Pennsylvania’s Pandemic Flu Plan. PAPandemicFluPlan.pdf
FatimahLateef. SARS Changes the ED Paradigm. SARS.pdf
Journal articles and other readings-optional
Dennis Cleri. SARS.SARS.pdf
Dennis Cleri, et al. Smallpox as a BioterroristWeapon: Myth or Menace.Smallpox.pdf
Kristi Koenig, et al. Medical Strategies to Handle Mass Casualties from the Use of Biological Weapons.Koenig bioterrorism.pdf
Richard Rothmanet al. Communicable Respiratory Threats in the ED: Tuberculosis, Influenza, SARS and Other Aerosolized Infections.RothmanSARS.pdf
DHS. Pandemic and Influenza Best Practices and Model Protocols.PI_Best_Practices_Model.pdf
PA West Nile virus alert 2010. PA west nilevirus alert
WHO. SARS.sars_wha.pdf
Pandemic Flu Case Analysis Assignment:
Peruse the Pennsylvania 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. As part of this guide, present at least 5 weaknesses or potential weaknesses that you find here. Additionally, comment on how and why personnel in county public health offices may be overwhelmed during a pandemic and what tasks they would have to address to assist in response to and mitigation of the disaster.
If you asking for clarity and some direction for this project.
First, review the plan. When I describe a tool- what I mean is an aid- such as a brochure, talking paper or other form of guide that can assist the local governments (counties) in implementing and a brief plan on how to deal with a local pandemic.
As you design the tool, find 5 areas of weakness that may hinder or obstruct their ability to implement a plan- and provide a brief solution to that situation.
Remember you are trying to assist local government- help them with courses of action to minimize the weaknesses.
– APA Style
– Please follow instructions clearly
Prepare it in a more narrative, report-type format (something ~6 pages should cover it).
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