Analysis of Australia's Bio Security Risk and COVID-19 Response Report

This report examines the bio security risks faced by Australia, with a specific focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on public healthcare. It details the government's mock emergency measures, including surveillance, communication, and monitoring plans. The report explores different types of surveillance (active and passive) and monitoring (process and assumption). It also analyzes communication methods, such as informed approaches and strong partnerships, along with their advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, it outlines the requirements for communication at both international and national levels, highlighting the involvement of various agencies for effective communication. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the strategies and challenges associated with managing bio security risks, offering insights into how Australia can improve its preparedness and response to future outbreaks.

REPORT FOR
GOVERNMENT

ABSTRACT
It is being stated in the report the scenario of bio security risk such as COVID-19
whereby it has huge impact on the public healthcare and what mock emergency measure can be
taken by the government of the Australia to fight against the outbreak of COVID -19 . It will
detail with the requirements of surveillance, communication and monitoring plans. It has
explained with different types of surveillance such as active and passive. It has explained
different type of monitoring such s assumption and physical process monitoring, methods of
communication such as informed approach and strong partnership and engagement with its
advantages and disadvantages. It lastly have detailed with the requirement of communication at
international and national level with various agencies involved in effective communication.

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Requirements to implement surveillance, communication and monitoring plans. .....................3
Types with advantage and disadvantages....................................................................................4
Requirement for communication ................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

Scenario- In December 2019 there occurred the case of first COVID 19 in Wuhan China . It
gradually started spreading all over the world. It lead with various economic disruption in the
Australia whereby the growth of the country hinder. This bio diversity risk has affected the
business of Australia and led to affecting the health care of the country.
INTRODUCTION
Bio security refers to the measures which are being aimed in introduction and prevention
of organism. This are being harmful such as bacteria and viruses to plants and animals and
human beings in order to reduce the risk of transmission of disease that are being infectious
(What is Bio security, 2019). COVID -19 has affected the business of the Australia in many
terms where it has affected the health care industry in uncertain manner. It is being a series of
measures that protect spread and entry of diseases and pest. It helps the government with
meeting to various requirements. It leads with government to protect the industry of health care.
Present report will address to requirements of communication, surveillance and monitoring with
its advantages and disadvantages and types.
MAIN BODY
Requirements to implement surveillance, communication and monitoring plans.
There are various requirements and importance to implement surveillance as it helps the
government of the Australia for better management and prevention of diseases that are being
non communicable diseases. By the data being collected, country is being able to set its prioritise
and develop the targeted intervention to reverse the non -communicable disease pandemic. It
helps the government to provide with factual and scientific database which are being essential in
appropriate public health action and informed decision making to fight against the outbreak such
as COVID – 19 (Zuboff, 2019) .

Surveillance is one of the areas of the regional framework for action whereby it has three
strategic interventions. It is being expected to strengthen and implement the framework being
laid down by WHO. It helps in monitoring the morbidity and morality, determinants of the risk
factors and country capacity to fight against the same which outlines with the three components
of surveillance in the country (Lyon, 2018).
Monitoring and evaluation plans helps the government of Australia to identify with the
most efficient and valuable resources. It is being important for building a strong , global
evidence base for the country to fight against the outbreak where diverse range of interventions
are being implemented to address to the same. It is the tool for identifying and documenting
successful activities and methods and letting to know the improvement being made in the
country to fight against the outbreak. Monitoring plans are being required as it forms the basis of
strengthen the understanding around many multi layered factors being prevailing in the country
to prevent and fight with the disease. The purpose of monitoring plans is to track the
implementation of various activities and tasks and to ascertain the outputs which are being
achieved and accompanied (Liu,2020). This helps the government of Australia to ascertain the
efforts of the programme which have the measurable impact on expected outcome . It helps to
see how it is being implemented in effective manner to fight with the outbreak which is being
prevailing all across the world. It is being critical for developing goals, conclusion regarding
with the extend to which activities, tasks can be judged as success. Monitoring and evaluation
plans together provide up with the data to guide for best strategic planning for the government
of the country. It is being required to implement the plans as it helps with better allocation of
resources in effective and efficient manner (What is Monitoring and Evaluation, 2017).
The communication plans is also very important and required on the end of
government to fight with various outbreaks . it helps in clarifying objectives and goals which
relates with protecting the citizens of the country and with no means that its citizens get infected
with the disease.
This is being important as it helps in implementing variety of activities being related with
the communication . It helps in spreading of the message to public to stay safe as the disease is
being spread all across can lead with harm to society. It leads with the involving in many
individuals in the process of planning which helps in bringing different perspective and thoughts
that facilitates effective decision making in the country. It helps in spreading awareness in the

country among the citizens which in turn helps with taking precaution and not letting the spread
of bio security risk, which accounts with the end of the same.
Types with advantage and disadvantages
There are two types of disease surveillance where public health departments at federal,
local and state level use different method of surveillance system to prevent and promote health in
the country. It include
Passive and active disease surveillance-
Passive disease surveillance begins with providers of healthcare and laboratories
initiating the reporting to local and state officials. The reporting diseases are being submitted on
case by case basis which is being based upon published list of circumstances.
Passive disease surveillance is effective because it casts and wide net and can be
conducted more easily and on the ongoing basis. It is being of advantage as it is useful for
routine activities of surveillance (Tacconelli, 2018). It may be of disadvantage as it may result in
incomplete and under-reporting data where the same can be manipulated and communicated in a
manner which is being not desirable and unfavourable means.
Active disease surveillance is when local and state officials actively search for the information
by contacting to providers of healthcare, schools, laboratories, nursing home, workplace and
various others.
Active surveillance is of advantage as it helps in gathering right data where manipulation
can,t be made which in turn leads wit proper scrutiny of information. It helps in building trust
and loyalty on the end of people of the country as it the surveillance is being done by proper
authority where people of the country believe no cheating and misconduct is being done
(Rozenshtein, 2018). Its disadvantage serve by the means as it is time consuming and lengthy
process as it is reaching to the providers of healthcare and other one by one to collect data on the
same. It is also the costly process which is being associated with collection and gathering of data.
There are various types of monitoring such as
Process and physical progress monitoring – This helps in collection of routine data and
analysing the data related to outbreak COVID -19 . It helps In establishing whether the tasks and
activities are leading to accomplish the results to fight against the bio security risks. Its helps in
authenticating the progress of the activities towards the results which are being intended. It
answers with question to government that what has being done so far, where and how its is being

done and various. The disadvantage to this could be including huge human resource for strategic
planning and monitoring which leads with the country impact on the budget by taking into
consideration various expenditure to ascertain the results and outcomes (Fuchs, M.H. and
Gerszberg, 2020).
Assumption monitoring –it implies with the government of the Australia having working
assumptions which is being clearly identified in the log frame of activities which can be taken in
the light of the country to avoid the spread of disease. This includes assumption which helps in
determining success and failure , where the project has no control over. Assumption monitoring
includes measurement of factors which are external to the project. It is being of advantage as it
helps in deriving the failure and success of the activities of the government of the country and
leads with improvement which needs to be taken to fight with various non communicable
disease. It is of disadvantage where the data is being not proper which leads with the failure of
the strategies to be implemented hence take on the the country at a position of back note ( Paul,
Dredze, 2017).
Methods of communication
There are various types of communication approach which is being used by the
government of the country to meet with the bio diversity risk.
Strong partnership and engagement – the communication can be by the means of engaging
government through national committees and networks. Promote national workshops and events
that foster engagement and helps together to fight against the outbreak. It is being of
importance as it helps in gathering of various view points and opinions which helps and accounts
with the solution to how the country can be self sufficient in meeting with the current situation of
outbreak. It can be of disadvantage as it relates with conflicts among various parties where it can
hinder with the decision making and can leads with unfavourable and worse situation of spread
of disease or virus (Kiani, O'reilly, Masimo, 2017).
An informed approach – this communication type account with collaborating on behaviour and
research projects to maximise the reach and outcomes. As now the population of Australia is
using social media platforms and modes, the same may be adopted as an effective tool by the
country official to reach to the citizens of the country. It helps in effective delivery of the
message and serves as the cheapest mode of communication with less timely efforts. It is being
of disadvantage as people of the country may ignore the message which don, t serve them to be

interesting on there end as a result may lay lead with government failed efforts to encounter the
outbreak.
Requirement for communication
There is various requirement of communication at various national and international level
as firstly helps the country to understand its current position in comparison with that of other
countries whereby the improvement need to be made to foster the growth of the country. It
leads with the understanding of economic growth of the country when conditions such as out
break can happen.
It leads with having data which is being useful for the government of the country
whereby the same can be utilised in making of strategies and planning that will support the
growth of the country. It leads with the country to know what is the efficiency of its healthcare
system in delivering the medical services (Altheide,2020).
By facilitating international communication it help the country to imbibe with the
technologies which are being used by other countries in health care industry and implement the
same to make recoveries faster for those who got affected by the disease (Waisbord, 2019).
It helps in facilitating effective relationship and engagement between different countries
whereby it will helps the country to grow in favourable and positive manner. The same helps
with analysing of risk associated with various factors which can be taken in consideration to
make improvements which will not leads to hindering growth of the country.
It helps the country to increase with the productivity in the health care operation of the
country which helps in building trust and loyalty of the citizens of the country. By this it will
helps the government of the country to spread awareness among the citizens, whereby it will
helps in taking up with various precaution of not letting with spread of the non communicable
diseases. It leads with inviting up of innovative and creative ideas which may result in fighting
with the disease in more effective and efficient manner (Miele, Scholer, 2018).
It is being required as it leads with effective networking whereby it helps in identification
of various issues being faced by the citizens and solving the same with the motive for the welfare
of the same.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it is being concluded that there are various things which needs to
be considered by government of Australia fight against the outbreak. It is being understood that
what are the requirement of surveillance, monitoring and communication at various levels. It is
being concluded what are the advantages and disadvantages of various types of surveillance,
monitoring and communication such as active and passive surveillance, strong engagement
communication , assumption and physical progress monitoring. It lastly made to the
understanding of what are the requirements of communication at national and international level
and the agencies involved in the same.

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