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PUBH621 Epidemiology Assignment

   

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PUBH621 Epidemiology: Simulated ContactTracing and Exposure Assessment

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3Notifiable Disease........................................................................................................................3Contact Tracing............................................................................................................................3Differences between Northern Territory and Victoria Contact Tracing Guidelines....................4Case Study...................................................................................................................................5Ways of Infection and Degree of Infectiousness.........................................................................6CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTIONEpidemiology is known as branch of medicine that deals with incidents, possible controlof diseases and distribution of medicines. Apart from this other factors are explained which arerelated to report. In this study different factors like distribution patterns and determinant ofhealth and disease conditions are included (Yang and et.al., 2017). This report is providing thebrief of Tuberculosis and where the information related to TB can be found. The methods oftracing and relative measures are considered in the report. Various guidelines will be explainedfor northern territory and Victoria. Jurisdictional and procedural differences will be identified inthe report. Case study related to TB will be analysed and evaluated to prepare a report on thecase study.MAIN BODYNotifiable DiseaseNotifiable disease is consider as a disease that is required by the law to be reported to thegovernment authorities. This reporting help them to gather and monitor the disease and provideearly and initial warning of future possible outbreak. On the basis of this information and reporthealthcare authorities and government can effective action to prevent them from spreading. Thisinformative action also can help government official to produce a policy to reduce the number ofcases and ensure the availability of vaccination to control the disease. For this reportTuberculosis is taken as the Epidemiology disease (Walker and et.al., 2018). There are differentgovernment sites which are run by health care organization can be taken as resources to collectthe information of disease. Other sites also can be considered to collect the particular informationof Tuberculosis and methods of tracing.Contact TracingContact of tracing is considered as the process of identification of person who may havecome in contact with a person who is infected with epidemiologic disease. This process includesthe process of collecting information that can be used to find the health status of individualperson. This is important to evaluate the health condition of person to prevent the disease tospread. It is a preventive method that can be used by government and other health officials tocheck status of epidemiology disease. It can help the government and health care organization toprevent and interrupt infection and its spreading. This process includes different steps toidentification of health status of person who was possibly in contact with infected person or

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