Concept
Control of acute infectious disease is one of the oldest public health practices. It just as important today even as new infectious diseases such as SARS, Monkeypox, and Avian Influenza emerge to take the place of those diseases brought under control. The Infectious disease models for this session are HIV, TB and Communicable diseases.
Key Words
AIDS, HIV, False & True Positives, High Risk groups, High Risk behaviors, quarantine, incidence, prevalence, chronic, acute, incubation period, antibody, disease, vaccine, immunity, Pasteur, eradication, cost-benefit, law & regulations, high risk populations, sexually transmissible disease. SARS. Substance AbuseObjectives
After reviewing these three groups of infectious diseases the student should be able to describe
- policymaking approaches used to control infectious disease outbreaks in a community.
- To state when and how quarantine may be useful in protecting the community from particular individuals with these diseases, based on the use of modern epidemiologic principles.
- How the community models for control of HIV, STDs, TB, and Immunizations have changed since W.W.II,
- Why these diseases still remain problems.
- How certain substance abuses have obstructed the public health professionals from making significant reductions in new HIV infections, and what role HIV plays in TB infections
- Competencies 1C(1,2,4,10), 1E(1,2,6,7,10) !!A (all)
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (focus:Children)
Despite many resources devoted to full immunization of children by 2 years of age, the U.S. still lags behind many developed and under-developed countries. You should be able to discuss why strategies that work in almost every other country fail in the US. Are the issues cultural, behavioral, failure of communication, or political?
HIV as a model:
for a recently emerged (within the last 20 years) disease of public health significance. It also provides a model to study issues of policy, politics and practice, particualrly how such models can deter acquisition of Sexually Transmitted Infecrtions (STIs).
TB was under control 20 years ago
Students should be able to describe why, despite availability of antibiotics, this disease has become less controllable and more widespread in the U.S. and the world, particularly Africa and Asia.
References
(Scan) Web pages of CDC & IOM
Oaukn A Offitt MD: The Cutter Incident. Yale University press. 2005
Arthur Allen. Vaccine, Morton & Company. 2007
Rx for Survival - Rise of the Superbugs And How Safe are We? PBS series - On-Line and 3CD set. 2006
Reading
Introduction to Public Health: Schneider Chapters 9 & 10
Essays - number 7
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