Assignment: Infectious Disease Trends NSG 486

Assignment: Infectious Disease Trends NSG 486

Assignment: Infectious Disease Trends NSG 486

NSG486 Public Health Promotion And Disease Prevention

Week 4 Assignment

Infectious Disease Trends

Assignment Content

Understanding diseases present within the community allows public health nurses to prioritize health promotion and disease prevention strategies.

Analyze infectious diseases by:

Defining epidemiology, outbreak, incidence, and prevalence

Evaluating the role of nursing within epidemiology

Evaluating current infectious diseases locally, statewide, and nationally

Associating three of the most current infectious diseases with Healthy People 2020 objectives

Analyzing evidence-based practices aimed at reducing infectious diseases

Format your assignment as one of the following:

18- to 20-slide presentation

3- to 4-minute podcast

15- to 20-minute oral presentation

700- to 1,050-word paper

Another format approved by your instructor

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Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a significant burden on global economies and public health1,2,3. Their emergence is thought to be driven largely by socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, but no comparative study has explicitly analysed these linkages to understand global temporal and spatial patterns of EIDs. Here we analyse a database of 335 EID ‘events’ (origins of EIDs) between 1940 and 2004, and demonstrate non-random global patterns. EID events have risen significantly over time after controlling for reporting bias, with their peak incidence (in the 1980s) concomitant with the HIV pandemic. EID events are dominated by zoonoses (60.3% of EIDs): the majority of these (71.8%) originate in wildlife (for example, severe acute respiratory virus, Ebola virus), and are increasing significantly over time. We find that 54.3% of EID events are caused by bacteria or rickettsia, reflecting a large number of drug-resistant microbes in our database. Our results confirm that EID origins are significantly correlated with socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors, and provide a basis for identifying regions where new EIDs are most likely to originate (emerging disease ‘hotspots’). They also reveal a substantial risk of wildlife zoonotic and vector-borne EIDs originating at lower latitudes where reporting effort is low. We conclude that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.