Disease Control Strategies in Healthcare: An Analysis Report

This report addresses disease control strategies, particularly in the context of severe communicable diseases like influenza. The assignment emphasizes the initial steps of containing an outbreak, including identifying infected individuals, sealing off affected areas, and implementing screening procedures at locations like airports. It details the importance of collecting vital signs, gathering blood samples for analysis, and establishing mini-laboratories for quick testing. The report highlights the need for healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, and counselors, to manage the situation effectively and provide support to passengers. It outlines the process of collecting information from various sources, such as patients, healthcare providers, and airport authorities, to trace the source of infection and prevent further spread. The report also references key studies to support its arguments.

Running head: HEALTHCARE ASSIGNMENT
DISEASE CONTROL STRATEGIES IN EPIDEMIC
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While dealing with unknown severe communicable diseases, the first priority should be
saving own and others from the infection and sealing the vicinity of the place within which the
infected person is present (Rose et al., 2015). While dealing with such severe unknown influenza
condition, the primary focus of disease control will be identifying the person carrying the
infection and moving in the city (Pires et al., 2015). Further, each of the passengers from the
airplane, crew members and attendants will be ceased within the vicinity of the airport and their
vital signs and symptoms would be taken so that people with whom they came into contact could
be identified by comparing their vital signs and symptoms. Besides this, the health professionals
will be provided with blood sample of the infected person so that the characteristic of the
influenza virus and strategy to control the onset of disease could be achieved (Nahid et al.,
2016).
In such emergency condition, the airport should be segmented in multiple check post, and
mini-laboratories so that each of the passenger and their vital signs could be collected and tested
(Nahid et al., 2016). Further, healthcare physicians, nursing professionals, para-medics and
others so that in any unpleasant situation, they can control the crowd. Nursing professionals and
healthcare professionals will be given the authority to identify passengers who will be ceased
within the vicinity of airport and identifying person who do not carry the infection and could be
freed to go. Besides that, a counsellor will also be employed in the airport minilab so that
passengers who are tensed or stressed about their health condition could be pacified (Nahid et al.,
2016).
After ceasing the entire area, several information would be collected from the authorities
of the airport, the passengers, and the primary suspect of the contagious disease. The patient

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affected with the contagious disease will be asked the details of his recent journeys and health
history so that his source of infection could be identified and the type of vital signs developed in
the specific disease could be understood (Rose et al., 2015). Further, the healthcare physicians
with also be asked for information regarding the state of infection and severity of it so that those
people could be confined within a specific area to prevent the disease (Pires et al., 2015). The
airport authorities will be involved in the process so that the crew members and flight attendants
present in that airplane could be identified and they could be screened through proper diagnosis
so that other people could be protected from being affected to the disease.

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