DP 3005 Walden Travel and Commerce as Risk Factor Spread of Foodborne Disease Summary
write a summary for a risk factor that contributes to an emerging or re-emerging disease that is to appear on a local public health informational website when browsers click on Read More. From the following list of current, relevant factors provided by a public health organization, choose a known factor that contributes to the emergence or re-emergence of a disease:
Disaster aftermath
Emergency preparedness
Microbial adaptation and change
- Human susceptibility to infection
- Climate and weather
- Changing ecosystems
- Human demographics and behavior
- Economic development and land use
- International travel and commerce
- Technology and industry
- Breakdown of public health measures
- Poverty and social inequality
- War and famine
- Lack of political will
- Intent to harm
- Research this factor to prepare for writing the summary for the website information page. Be sure to include the following:
- Provide a description of the risk factor you have chosen, i.e., whether it is related to the environment, public policy, or other driving force and the circumstances under which it becomes activated within a community.
- Explain how the risk factor you selected contributes to the emergence and/or re-emergence of infectious disease.
Describe the disease(s) associated with the risk factor.
Recommend at least two public health strategies or interventions that could be used to address the risk factor. Describe each strategy or intervention in detail, including two steps that would need to be taken to implement it.
- Identify organizational partnerships, or other collaborators, that could oversee strategies or interventions, and provide linking strategies to address the risk factor.