How do these tools and data help health professionals and the public?

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Task 1: Review the following sites.

– FluView http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluviewinteractive.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Click on the first selection to view the ILI & viral surveillance application. Read the disclaimer and check OK. From the next page, review the data for flu test results and influenza-like illness (ILI). In the lower right hand corner under ‘Stacked Column Chart – WHO NREVSS’ select the download data function. Open the CSV data in Excel. See if you can reproduce the stacked column chart in Excel.

HealthMap www.healthmap.org (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Go to this site and type in “Zika virus” to see what is going on in the United States. Type in your zip code and check if there any disease alerts near you. You can also download this as an app for your iPhone, iPad or Android.

Much of public health informatics involves the application of disease surveillance and monitoring systems. These systems collect and provide data for epidemiologists, biostatisticians and other public health professionals to analyze to get a better picture of public health status. Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce http://phpartners.org/health_stats.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. is a collaborative of local, state, territorial, national and private partners that provides up-to-date resources and information for public health professionals. There is a list of many of the widely used surveillance systems, databases, reports and tools in the field compiled by the collaborative. Browse several of the links in each subheading (Tools for Data Collection and Planning, GIS, etc.).

Task 2: create a post with the subject line, “Public Health Data Tools”

Choose one of the resources and write a short paragraph (5-7 sentences) introducing the data tool/resource and explain why it is significant. Also answer the following questions.

  1. How do these tools and data help health professionals and the public?
  2. What do we gain from analyzing this data?
  3. What if we didn’t have these tools available today?

Managing Competing Agendas

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Assignment 2: Managing Competing Agendas

In this assignment, you will explore how the organization and policitial environment of an agency or departments can impact the issue you selected in Assignment 1.

Using the issue you selected from Assignment 1, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you respond to the following questions:

  1. Examine the organization of the agency in which the issue resides. Describe the structure and departments within the agency and the manner in which the departments interact with each other.
  2. Given the description you provided in Question 1, describe the primary ways the human resource management part of the organizational structure positively or negatively impacts the issue that you selected.
  3. Given the description you provided in Question 1, describe the primary ways the budgeting part of the organizational structure positively or negatively impacts the issue you selected.
  4. Given the description you provided in Question 1, analyze the political environment and explain (2) challenges that political responsiveness may present for management.
  5. Include at least four (4) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook. Note:Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than “.gov” do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Assemble the concepts of planning, reengineering, implementation, and program evaluation essential to the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
  • Organize the concepts of public budgeting and policy formation essential to the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
  • Reconstruct historical trends related to public administration and its influence on managing public and nonprofit organizations.
  • Organize the concepts of planning and human resource management essential to the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in public administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about public administration using proper writing mechanics.

Margaret Higgins Sanger/Reproductive health

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Significant Contributions to Public Health – Part I

For your final project, you will be researching an individual and their contribution to community and public health. Because of the size of this project, you will be doing the first part of this project in Week 3 then adding the final portion in Week 5. You have the option of writing a paper or putting together a presentation. Details are below the outline. Overall, you will be researching an historical figure in the public health world, their contribution to public health, and how their work helped shape the public health system. Furthermore, you will be analyzing how their contribution from the past continues to contribute to today’s public health system and how it might guide future work within the industry.

Follow this outline to help formulate your paper or presentation:

ACTION: Select one of the historical figures and their associated public health topic

  • Margaret Higgins Sanger/Reproductive health
  • Rachel Carson/Environmental health
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt/Health care administration
  • John Snow/Communicable and infectious disease
  • Luther T. Terry/Smoking
  • W. E. B. DuBois/Social determinants of health
  • Larry Kramer/Health activism
  • An individual of your own choice: YOU MUST OBTAIN INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL IN ADVANCE

ACTION: Research the individual’s background

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Describe your selected person’s biographical background (i.e. experience).
    • HELP: This can include resume elements such as birthdate, location, education, and brief statement of their contribution to public health. (Reminder: biographical information can be easily plagiarized. Please do not copy from your biographical websites. Paraphrase and/or quote and cite everything according to APA.)

ACTION: Research the barriers and issue of the time

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Analyze the climate of the time period in terms of political, socioeconomic, environmental and technological context in which this person worked
    • HELP: Think about whether this person was up against resistance or was their work welcomed. [For example, if you were writing on Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery, you would note that slavery was prevalent and accepted at the time and the change was welcomed by some and rejected by others]
  • GRADED ELEMENT: Examine the personal beliefs of your person that prompted this work.
    • HELP: You are basically addressing the question: “Why did this person get involved with the issue at the time?” [In continuing the Lincoln example above, you would note that black people were considered property, not people; yet Lincoln believed everyone had equal rights regardless of skin color].

ACTION: Think about how this person overcame the barriers and issues

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Examine how this individual overcame and/or confronted any adversities to succeed in his/her task
    • HELP: Questions to consider: What did the person specifically do? Did they have any allies? How did their actions succeed/fail?

ACTION: Think about the importance of the contribution to community/public health at the time

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Describe the final outcome of this individual’s contribution to community and/or public health
    • HELP: Think about this question: What occurred as a result of this person’s action?
  • GRADED ELEMENT: Explain what his/her contribution did for overall community and/or public health at the time
    • HELP: Think about this question: What was the purpose for the community and/or nation? [In the Lincoln example, the explanation would involve a national recognition of human rights of all people, regardless of skin color]
  • GRADED ELEMENT: Explain why this contribution was so important at that particular point in history
    • HELP: Think about this question: What made this important for our nation? [In the Lincoln example, you would answer the question: Why was it so important that Lincoln freed the slaves?]

You have a choice of which format you wish to present your findings:
Format 1: Written Paper

  • Must be at least 4 pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Students name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four scholarly sources (one of those may be the course text).
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

OR

Format 2: Presentation (w/audio or w/speaker’s notes)

  • Must be at least 12 minutes in length (not including title and reference slides) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title slide with the following:
    • Title of presentation
    • Students name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four scholarly sources (one of those may be the course text).
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Discuss common themes across the assigned journal articles relative to public health preparedness from the emergency and disaster healthcare perspective

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please provide APA references for both the post and response.

here is the question( the post)

Discuss common themes across the assigned journal articles relative to public health preparedness from the emergency and disaster healthcare perspective.

and here I need (the two response) to two of my classmates.

first one

This is a hot-button topic for me. I have been an Emergency Department RN for years and currently, have a leadership/clinical role in the ED.

Common Theme:

  • Overcrowding / Using the ED for primary care
    • On any given night in the ED where I work, we are holding 5-20 patients due to mental health holds, ETOH intoxication, case management/placement issues or the hospital is full or does not have enough staffed beds. Each nurse is responsible for 4-5 patients and it is luck of the draw. I have had many nights where I have a trauma alert, a septic/hypotensive/unstable ICU patient, a cardiac alert and a rowdy patient who will not stay in bed. My job in the ED is to stabilize the patient and to get to a disposition– admit, transfer or discharge. My trauma and ICU patient would be staffed at a 1 RN to 1 patient ratio or a 2:1 ratio, depending on their stability. Yet, I am responsible for all four of them, often for hours because we do not have any beds open. It can be a terribly dangerous situation, especially when the trauma patient needs continuous monitoring for condition changes and I’m titrating drips (medications that require adjustments based on the patient’s condition/response to the medications) in the ICU patient’s room. You are essentially running around like a crazy person, instructing the intoxicated person to stay put, answering call lights for “sandwiches and blankets” and a million other requests. There is a HUGE need for observational units and I’m am glad that these are now covered by Medicaid. The problem, however, is the expense of building & staff these units in comparison to the bottom line.
    • We rate our patients on an acuity score (ESI) of 1-5, with 1 being the sickest, requiring immediate life-saving intervention, 2 requiring living-saving intervention within 30 minutes etc. When we are not moving patients (ie: throughput), two things happen. (1) Sick patients wait in triage for too long. (2) ESI 3,4,5 level patients get upset that they are not receiving care. Essentially, if you are dying, we will find a bed for you. If you are sick, we will find a bed for you very quickly and start treatment up in triage. If you have a cold, need an STI check or pregnancy test, you will be waiting. Here is the catch, hospitals receive reimbursement based on HCAHPS surveys (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems). The surveys are sent out to patients and the scores reflect their opinion of the care they received. If they are admitted, they get a survey based on their in-patient care (not the time spent in the emergency department). If they are discharged from the emergency department, they get a survey based on their care in the ED. SO, if they are sick enough to get admitted, they do not survey the care in the ED. If they are well enough to go home, they do get a survey about the care in the ED. Well, using my example of the types of patients a nurse might be responsible at the same time, who do you think is getting the most attention? Obviously, my time at bedside directly relates to the stability of the patient; so the people I’m spending the most time caring for are not surveying me and the people I’m spending the least time with are surveying my care. In 2020, HCAHPS is adding even more weight to the survey results in relation to ED reimbursement.
  • Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. 2008. “Hospital Bedsize” [accessed on September 1, 2018]. Available at https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/hosp_bedsize/…

Isaac, T., A. M. Zaslavsky, P. D. Cleary, and B. E. Landon. 2010. “The Relationship Between Patients’ Perception of Care and Measures of Hospital Quality and Safety.” Health Services Research 45 (4): 1024-40.

  • Martsolf, G. R., Gibson, T. B., Benevent, R., Jiang, H. J., Stocks, C., Ehrlich, E. D., . . . Auerbach, D. I. (2016). An examination of hospital nurse staffing and patient experience with care: Differences between Cross‐Sectional and longitudinal estimates. Health Services Research, 51(6), 2221-2241. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.12462