Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State to State

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Question description

Read the CDC document entitled Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State to State. There are nine preparedness goals in the background section. Choose one of the 5 public health emergencies listed below and write a 3000 word paper (plus or minus 10{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119}) that briefly describes the incident and then how and why aspects of the incident were handled well or could have been handled better according to this document. Each of the nine main goals of the CDC document must be addressed in your paper. If a particular one does not apply, state why (with a detailed enough explanation to support your opinion) and move on. I expect that you will be able to discuss or cite relevant topics we cover in the course as evidence that you have read the material and are facile enough to write about the importance of this subject matter even if you are not an expert. Do not include irrelevant extraneous material. The paper should utilize APA format.

Topics:

  1. Enterovirus D68 in the United States (August 2014-present)
  2. Multistate Meningitis Outbreak (epidural steroid injections) October 2012
  3. H1N1 outbreak US 2009/10
  4. E. coli contamination of spinach 2006
  5. SARS outbreak 2003

Important notes:

1- Use FEMA resources to expand your thoughts (www.fema.gov) or any other scholary articles

2- Use proper APA format for citation

3- It is all about managing disasters (related to public health issues such as the topics mentioned above)

4- Only choose one topic from the choices mentioned above.

describe two things you learned about public health and how it affects your life and how is this information relevant to understanding the important concepts of Public Health?

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1 Discussion

Choose one of the following websites, describe two things you learned about public health and how it affects your life and how is this information relevant to understanding the important concepts of Public Health?

Website: Orientation to Public Health

http://www.phtc-online.org/learning/pages/catalog/oph/

Website: Field Epidemiology

http://www.phtc-online.org/learning/pages/catalog/fe/

Website: What Is Public Health?

http://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health

Website: The Social determinants of health

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/98438/e81384.pdf

2 Discussion

Mortality and Morbidity

Utilizing the Internet, public library, and/or books, research the mortality and morbidity rates for your city, county, or state. Discuss your findings. List all references.

NOTE: Choose various cities, counties, and states to research. This will keep the Discussion Board interactive and interesting.

– minimum of 200 hundred word for each discussionQuestion description

1 Discussion

Choose one of the following websites, describe two things you learned about public health and how it affects your life and how is this information relevant to understanding the important concepts of Public Health?

Website: Orientation to Public Health

http://www.phtc-online.org/learning/pages/catalog/oph/

Website: Field Epidemiology

http://www.phtc-online.org/learning/pages/catalog/fe/

Website: What Is Public Health?

http://www.apha.org/what-is-public-health

Website: The Social determinants of health

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/98438/e81384.pdf

2 Discussion

Mortality and Morbidity

Utilizing the Internet, public library, and/or books, research the mortality and morbidity rates for your city, county, or state. Discuss your findings. List all references.

NOTE: Choose various cities, counties, and states to research. This will keep the Discussion Board interactive and interesting.

– minimum of 200 hundred word for each discussion

Define from the beginning if you are working with qualitative or quantitative paradigm

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As previously there are again some comments from professor in the attached document. Please make sure you make changes as per professor comments and also the below description.

  • Pay attention to the logic of your document – I mean logic the document flow. You need to write as if you were explaining all the steps in a good sequence for people to understand what you have done.
  • Logic means that you discover in literature review the justification of your work, the important contributions to your work etc. You need to see these elements of literature review represented in your analysis, in your problem definition in your hypotheses etc. Nothing is from the AIR
  • Define from the beginning if you are working with qualitative or quantitative paradigm
  • If you adopt the quantitative paradigm first review your population of interest and your capacity to gather the data for description or generalizations
  • In the quantitative study search for possible methods/models and test them. Your report is about the one that you selected mentioning the work done to select it

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE….. FOCUS……. GO THROUGH THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION AND COMMENTS BY PROFESSOR IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT AGAIN AND AGAIN/…….

NEED SOME SPECIAL WORK.

Two things to follow

1) Make changes as per his comments in the documents

2) Go through the below description requirement again and again. and work accordingly.

complete the “Value Systems” assessment

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This week’s self-assessment, located in your text, is a brief individual leadership assessment entitled, “Value Systems.” This simple assessment is designed to initiate your thinking on the topic of values in leadership and how your values might impact your leadership in the field of public health.

For this Professional Leadership Journal, complete the “Value Systems” assessment. As a scholar-practitioner in the field of public health, reflect on what the assessment may reveal about your leadership values. What values may be important to you as a leader in the field of public health?

The Assignment (2–3 paragraphs):

  • Explain new insights gained based on your results of the “Value Systems” assessment
  • Explain how these new insights might impact your role, or future role as a public health leader

NAHAVANDI, A. (2014). THE ART AND SCIENCE OF LEADERSHIP (7TH ED.). UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ: PEARSON.

  • CHAPTER 1, “DEFINITION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LEADERSHIP”
  • SELF-ASSESSMENT 4-1: VALUE SYSTEMS (P. 132)

KOH, H. K. (2009). LEADERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH. JOURNAL OF CANCER EDUCATION, 24(SUPP. 2), S11–S18.

NOTE: YOU WILL ACCESS THIS ARTICLE FROM THE WALDEN LIBRARY DATABASES.

LEISCHOW, S. J., & MILSTEIN, B. (2006). SYSTEMS THINKING AND MODELING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 96(3), 403–405.

NOTE: YOU WILL ACCESS THIS ARTICLE FROM THE WALDEN LIBRARY DATABASES.

TROCHIM, W. M., CABRERA, D.A., MILSTEIN, B., GALLAGHER, R.S., & LEISCHOW, S.J. (2006). PRACTICAL CHALLENGES OF SYSTEMS THINKING AND MODELING IN PUBLIC HEALTH. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 96(3), 538–546.

NOTE: YOU WILL ACCESS THIS ARTICLE FROM THE WALDEN LIBRARY DATABASES.

VROOM, V. H., & JAGO, A.G. (2007). THE ROLE OF THE SITUATION IN LEADERSHIP. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, 62(1), 17–24.

NOTE: YOU WILL ACCESS THIS ARTICLE FROM THE WALDEN LIBRARY DATABASES.

ZALEZNICK, A. (2004). MANAGERS AND LEADERS: ARE THEY DIFFERENT? HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, 82(1), 74–81.
RETRIEVED FROM HTTPS://CB.HBSP.HARVARD.EDU/CBMP/PL/57132551/57132…

DOCUMENT: SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER PROJECT OVERVIEW (WORD DOCUMENT)

NOTE: YOU WILL USE THIS DOCUMENT TO COMPLETE THE SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER PROJECT.

OPTIONAL RESOURCES

CHANGING MINDS. (2011). LEADERSHIP VS. MANAGEMENT. RETRIEVED FROM HTTP://CHANGINGMINDS.ORG/DISCIPLINES/LEADERSHIP/AR…