Publc Health Vector

Question: Write an essay on Publc Health? Answer: 1. Introduction The most common vector related disease that is affecting the community in the recent time is Dengue. Globally the disease has become a common cause of infection that is affecting more than 390 million of people annually. Small portions among them progress to severe dengue. Most of the part in USA is also affected by the same disease because of its large spread. The community is suffering from this disease because of less control on mosquito. There are several other diseases that spread through mosquito like Malaria, Chikungunya and West Nile Virus (Cdc.gov, 2016). The objective of this report is to discuss about the most common vector related disease that is affecting the community. The report also emphasizes on the health concerns of the community and tries to provide ways to identify intervention or prevention methods. Environmental risk assessment has been done to set the budget of the whole program. At the end of the report SWOT analysis has been done to evaluate different aspect of the program and find out ways to rectify any mistakes. 2. Health concerns of the community Mosquito related disease are becoming very common in United States among them Dengue is the most common that is affecting the community. Local as well as the global environmental problems are problems are the main cause of Dengue disease. Since the disease is transmitted through the vectors like mosquito therefore controlling the disease is becoming one of the biggest challenges. The most common health problem that happens due to dengue is the fever. Dengue fever is severing and feels flu like illness (Krisberg, 2016). It is very common among the children as well as in adults that seldom cause deaths. When Dengue becomes sever than it increases the risk of life and sometime causes death. The most common fact of the sever Dengue is that it drastically reduces the White Blood Cell count in the blood (Yasri Wiwanitkit, 2015). Sever Dengue is potentially dangerous for life because it causes plasma leaking, severe bleeding, fluid accumulation and respiratory disease. The general symptoms of the disease are high fever near about 104 Fahrenheit along with severe headache, pain behind eye, muscle and joint pains, nausea, vomiting, swollen glands or rash. After the incubation of 4 to 10 days of the mosquito bite all these symptoms will occur and will last for 2 to 7 days. The symptoms of the sever Dengue are severe abdominal pain, restlessness persistent vomiting, bleeding gums, rapid breathing, fatigue and blood in vomit (Joob Wiwanitkit, 2015). 3. Environmental risk assessment methods related to public health issues Public health is affected by the several aspects of the environmental degradation and increasing the threat of different kind of diseases. Aedes Aegypti is the mosquito that spread Dengue through its bite I the morning time. Due to different environmental problems population of these mosquitoes are increasing globally. Water pollution is the main reason that is increasing the spread of Dengue disease. Therefore assessing the environmental risk it is very important that we emphasize on the water body of the local area. Thorough investigation is required to find out the areas from where the water bodies are getting polluted (Who.int, 2016). Government has to ensure that water pollution is limited so that mosquitoes get little chance to increase their population. Due to global environmental change most of the species of mosquito are adopting new ways of breeding and they are developing resistance against drug. Therefore it is becoming difficult to control the population. Every citizen h as to take the initiative to keep the city clean to restrict mosquito breeding (Thisyakorn Pengsaa, 2012). Developing awareness is the only method that will help the fight against the risk of this disease. 4. Suggested prevention or intervention program The options for controlling Dengue are very limited because it is very difficult to control the population of mosquito. Government should take the initiative to increase the awareness of this program so that most of the citizen can feel the urgency. Once the citizens are aware of the disease cause then it becomes easier for the authority to conduct the prevention program. The steps to control the disease are to control Aedes aegypti (Sharma, Gupta, Jain Chakravarti, 2015). Therefore eradication is the choice that will help to minimize the population of mosquito. Apart from that use of ultra low volume of insecticide, air travel regulation and regular surveillance of the routine mosquito control effects. Eradication is the most sustainable effort because it helps to abolish the population of the mosquito from the local area. Once the population is eradicated then the measures should be taken so that they do not spread in the near future. The best step to prevent further regeneration of the mosquito population is the application of low volume insecticide. The insecticides are given particularly in the water bodies. The function of the insecticide is to prevent the breeding of the population therefore next generation of mosquito will not be able to spread the disease (Pozzetto, 2015). The next step is to do a proper surveillance to the passengers who are coming from the Dengue affected are because they might bring the virus and it could spread through the mosquitoes. All these efforts do not guarantee the prevention of Dengue in full extent rather they can decrease the risk of getting affected by the mosquito. To prevent the disease it is very necessary to put lot of efforts to innovate the vaccine of this disease. If proper vaccination is done to the human then it will restrict the Dengue virus to attack (Wonder.cdc.gov, 2016). 5. Budget of the program Budget of this program could be higher because large number of human resource is required to involve to increasing the awareness. Budget also required for the several purpose of eradication, implementation of insecticide and surveillance of air passenger (Thisyakorn Pengsaa, 2012). Moreover the cost of Dengue control will also include the cost of human resource, logistics for different purpose and some time when the condition of the patients will become sever the cost of hospitalization will also become the part of the program. Particulars Expected Cost in Dollar Aedes aegypti eradication 85000 Ultra-low volume (ULV) insecticide application 14500 Surveillance of air passenger 25000 Monitoring in the household 5000 Vaccination 146000 Hospitalization 55000 Cost of human resource 45000 Cost of transportation and logistic 60000 Total 435500 Table 1: Budget of the Dengue prevention program 6. SWOT analysis of the proposed program SWOT Analysis of proposed program Strength Eradication of Aedes aegypti population will help to reduce the intensity Monitoring of the household to ensure awareness throughout the population Government support and fund will ensure proper implementation Weakness Amount of workers may not be sufficient as a very deep inspection of dumped areas are to be conducted Difficult to monitor guests or immigrants who are already affected It is quite tough to ensure total eradication Aedes aegypti There is no proper treatment for Dengue (Villela Almeida, 2012) Opportunity Awareness will increase among the population Precautions can be increased to decrease future disease Awareness will ensure that most of the people is educated about the disease Environmental degradation will be less Threat Life threat is more for those who are severely affected No vaccination is available for the prevention Symptoms are very common therefore suspecting the disease is tough (Zareen Mursalin, 2015) Table 2: SWOT Analysis of proposed program 7. 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