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APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH & POPULATION-FOCUSED NURSING

Competencies:
7019.1.3: Community Advocacy – The graduate develops culturallysensitive and relevant strategies to advocate for populations, based onknowledge of community health systems.
7019.1.4: Community Health Promotion – The graduate proposes health promotion initiatives and services to promote disease and injury prevention.
7019.1.6: Global Health – The graduate analyzes past and present initiatives meant to improve the health of the global community.
7019.1.7: Emergency Response – The graduate plans for thepreparation, response, and recovery of communities from natural andhuman-caused emergencies and disasters.
7019.1.9: Communicable Disease – The graduate analyzes the impactof communicable diseases on the health of individuals, families, andcommunities in a global environment.

Task 2: Community Outbreak

Introduction:

With the increased mobility of human populations, diseases can quicklyspread around the world. In addition, changes in vaccination practiceshave revealed an increase in communicable diseases that were oncethought to be under control. These global health issues present newproblems for community health officials.

In the Bentonville simulation, you learned how an influenza virusimpacted the community. You will provide a PDF report of your completedactivities.

In this task, you will also analyze an outbreak of a specific globalcommunicable disease that occurred in the last 50 years that crossedinternational borders (e.g., the measles outbreak that moved from thePhilippines to the United States).

Requirements:

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combinedtotal of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any oneindividual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased fromsources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Reportavailable in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submissionbecause it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate yourwork. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubricaspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevantportions of the course.

A. Select one of the following communicable diseases that has had an outbreak across international borders:

• influenza

• measles

• respiratory syndrome coronavirus

• meningococcal disease

• HIV/AIDS

• Ebola virus

• hepatitis B

• hepatitis C

• tuberculosis

• Zika virus

B. Describe the outbreak of the disease selected in part A, including each of the following:

• name of the disease

• the countries involved

• the date the outbreak was discovered

• the dates the disease reached each involved country

1. Analyze the epidemiological determinants and risk factors associated with the outbreak.

2. Discuss the route of transmission of the selected disease.

3. Discusshow an outbreak of the selected disease would impact your community at asystems level (e.g., the functioning of schools, local government,businesses, hospitals).

4. Explain what the reporting protocol would be if an outbreak of the selected disease were to occur in your community.

5. Discuss twostrategies (e.g., patient education strategies, community educationstrategies) that you would recommend to prevent an outbreak of theselected disease in your community.

C. Submit a PDF of your score summary from Bentonville that includes each of the following completed activities:

• Influenza in Bentonville

• Community Advocacy

• Emergency Response

• Communicable Disease

Note:For an example of how your score sheet should look, refer to theattached "Sample Final Results Report: Influenza in Bentonville."

D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.