Public Health Law and Policy

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Public health law and policy
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Purpose of the note
1. The essence of the briefing note to the ministry of health and justice concerned with
the health policy proposal to aid in preventing the spread of the infectious disease
within the country. The need for preventing the rising cases of tuberculosis infection
has been a health burden and leading cause of death in some low and middle-income
countries. The proposed health policy of finding a preventive measure for the
infectious disease that is tuberculosis will aid to reduce the number of death cases
and the burden of treating the infected people.
Background information
2. The thesis of the briefing note presented to the ministry of health and justice is about
the policy change for finding an alternative preventive measure for infectious
tuberculosis within the country. The note into details addresses the need for such
drugs and education resources to enlighten members of the society on some personal
preventive measure they should practice. There have been increasing reports about
tuberculosis within the country as most of the affected members are the low and

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middle-class people whose financial status are very low compared to other members
of society (Floyd, Glaziou, Zumla & Raviglione, 2018).
3. High prevalence of tuberculosis has been a burden to most of the households and
health care centers since the death rate caused by the infectious communicable
disease has been rising daily. Therefore the need to prevent and control this
infectious disease is urgent and should be urgently reviewed by the ministry of health
and justice to save the lives of the infected households (Frick, von Delft & Kumar,
2015).
4. Congestions in the local health care centers have been also witnessed as most of the
patients admitted are suffering from tuberculosis which has rendered some of the
health centers unsafe for other patients to die to its communicable nature. Due large
number of infected people, there is a shortage of drugs in most of the health facilities
for curing tuberculosis thus forcing some patients to move to private hospitals for
treatment which is very expensive concerning their financial status (Uplekar, et al.,
2015).
5. The need for vaccination policy proposed to the ministry of health and justice as one
of the preventive mechanism for tuberculosis is very urgent since many lives are
been lost daily specifically children below five years of age.
Issues analysis for the proposed health policy
1. The proposed health policy that is the provision of vaccines for tuberculosis as a
preventive measure is associated with the following issues or impacts to the members of
the society which financial, social and cultural issues as discussed in the context below.