prioritization of pathogens to guide discovery, research and development of n...Anggisagitasitiqomar1
prioritization of pathogens to guide discovery, research and development of new antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infection, including tuberculosis
The Global Tuberculosis Report 2021 by the World Health Organization provides an overview of the state of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic worldwide. Some key findings include that for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased globally due to reduced access to TB diagnosis and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Close to half of the estimated 10.6 million people who fell ill with TB in 2020 were not diagnosed or treated. The number of people treated for drug-resistant TB and those who received TB preventive treatment also declined significantly. The report emphasizes the need to address social determinants like poverty, inequity, and discrimination to help end TB. It provides data on TB trends in 197 countries to inform preparations for the second
threat to malaria control. Resistance to rifampicin, a
The threat of antimicrobial resistance is growing due to both appropriate and inappropriate use of antibiotics in humans and animals. Many infections are becoming difficult or impossible to treat as bacteria evolve resistance. While strategies have been implemented, more action is needed worldwide to curb resistance and preserve the effectiveness of existing drugs. This book examines experiences addressing resistance in different areas and progress since 2001, highlighting the need for continued efforts, especially political commitment, to combat the threat.
In today's interconnected world, the term "pandemic" has become all too familiar. But what exactly does it mean, and why is it so significant? A pandemic can be defined as a global health crisis caused by the outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across multiple countries or continents. It is a term that denotes the severity and scale of an epidemic.
To understand the significance of a pandemic, it is essential to differentiate between a pandemic and an epidemic. While both refer to the spread of infectious diseases, an epidemic is typically confined to a specific region or community. In contrast, a pandemic transcends borders, affecting people worldwide.
The impact of a pandemic goes beyond its immediate health consequences. It can disrupt economies, strain healthcare systems, and cause social upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a stark reminder of how vulnerable our global society can be in the face of such crises.
The WHO played both positive and controversial roles in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic:
- Positively, the WHO helped countries prepare and respond, provided accurate information to counter myths, ensured supplies reached health workers, trained health workers, and coordinated vaccine research. However, the pandemic was still preventable.
- Controversially, the WHO was slow to declare a global emergency and was accused of turning a blind eye to China's initial response. Early recommendations on face masks also caused confusion.
- An independent review found the WHO and countries' combined response was inadequate and the world remains vulnerable to future pandemics without changes to strengthen global health cooperation.
Global health is the health of populations in the global context;
It has been defined as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide".Health is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in which disease and infirmity are absent. Global health practices can respond to some of the major health responsibilities such as non-communicable diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases) or injuries that occur in varying degrees in many countries, no matter how advanced.
The guidelines set out the principles and practices that government can look at when making laws and regulating food programs. Inequality affects the health of the world.
The future of global health is at risk and needs urgent strategies. Also, technology is contributing at a vast pace to overcome the various health challenges all over the world.
For prevention of non-communicable diseases(NCD):
Ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
Restrictions on the availability of retailed alcohol.
Replacement of trans fats with polyunsaturated fats.
Scale-up early detection and coverage starting with very cost-effective, high-impact interventions.
prioritization of pathogens to guide discovery, research and development of n...Anggisagitasitiqomar1
prioritization of pathogens to guide discovery, research and development of new antibiotics for drug-resistant bacterial infection, including tuberculosis
The Global Tuberculosis Report 2021 by the World Health Organization provides an overview of the state of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic worldwide. Some key findings include that for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased globally due to reduced access to TB diagnosis and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Close to half of the estimated 10.6 million people who fell ill with TB in 2020 were not diagnosed or treated. The number of people treated for drug-resistant TB and those who received TB preventive treatment also declined significantly. The report emphasizes the need to address social determinants like poverty, inequity, and discrimination to help end TB. It provides data on TB trends in 197 countries to inform preparations for the second
threat to malaria control. Resistance to rifampicin, a
The threat of antimicrobial resistance is growing due to both appropriate and inappropriate use of antibiotics in humans and animals. Many infections are becoming difficult or impossible to treat as bacteria evolve resistance. While strategies have been implemented, more action is needed worldwide to curb resistance and preserve the effectiveness of existing drugs. This book examines experiences addressing resistance in different areas and progress since 2001, highlighting the need for continued efforts, especially political commitment, to combat the threat.
In today's interconnected world, the term "pandemic" has become all too familiar. But what exactly does it mean, and why is it so significant? A pandemic can be defined as a global health crisis caused by the outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads across multiple countries or continents. It is a term that denotes the severity and scale of an epidemic.
To understand the significance of a pandemic, it is essential to differentiate between a pandemic and an epidemic. While both refer to the spread of infectious diseases, an epidemic is typically confined to a specific region or community. In contrast, a pandemic transcends borders, affecting people worldwide.
The impact of a pandemic goes beyond its immediate health consequences. It can disrupt economies, strain healthcare systems, and cause social upheaval. The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a stark reminder of how vulnerable our global society can be in the face of such crises.
The WHO played both positive and controversial roles in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic:
- Positively, the WHO helped countries prepare and respond, provided accurate information to counter myths, ensured supplies reached health workers, trained health workers, and coordinated vaccine research. However, the pandemic was still preventable.
- Controversially, the WHO was slow to declare a global emergency and was accused of turning a blind eye to China's initial response. Early recommendations on face masks also caused confusion.
- An independent review found the WHO and countries' combined response was inadequate and the world remains vulnerable to future pandemics without changes to strengthen global health cooperation.
Global health is the health of populations in the global context;
It has been defined as "the area of study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide".Health is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in which disease and infirmity are absent. Global health practices can respond to some of the major health responsibilities such as non-communicable diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases) or injuries that occur in varying degrees in many countries, no matter how advanced.
The guidelines set out the principles and practices that government can look at when making laws and regulating food programs. Inequality affects the health of the world.
The future of global health is at risk and needs urgent strategies. Also, technology is contributing at a vast pace to overcome the various health challenges all over the world.
For prevention of non-communicable diseases(NCD):
Ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
Restrictions on the availability of retailed alcohol.
Replacement of trans fats with polyunsaturated fats.
Scale-up early detection and coverage starting with very cost-effective, high-impact interventions.
Health care-associated infections (HCAI) affect hundreds of millions of patients worldwide each year. HCAI prolong hospital stays, induce long-term disabilities, increase costs for patients and health systems, and often result in tragic loss of life. While the global burden of HCAI is unknown due to a lack of reliable data collection, studies in developed countries show that 5-15% of hospitalized patients and 9-37% of intensive care unit patients acquire HCAI. Common HCAI include surgical site infections, pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and gastrointestinal infections. Hand hygiene is considered one of the most effective measures for reducing the transmission of harmful pathogens and preventing HCAI.
The document summarizes the International Health Regulations (IHR), which were revised in 2005 and entered into force in 2007. The IHR aim to help countries work together to detect and respond to public health threats, and minimize interference with international trade and travel. Key points of the revised IHR include expanding their scope to cover all public health emergencies instead of just three diseases, promoting rapid response at the source of outbreaks, and strengthening national and global surveillance and response capabilities. The IHR also establish procedures for international collaboration and information sharing during public health events.
IHR_Overview.ppt unicef international health agencyAkshayaKiran2
The document summarizes the International Health Regulations (IHR), which were revised in 2005 and entered into force in 2007. The IHR aim to help countries work together to detect and respond to public health threats, and minimize interference with international trade and travel. Key points of the revised IHR include expanding their scope to cover all public health emergencies instead of just three diseases, promoting rapid response at the source of outbreaks, and strengthening national and global surveillance and response capabilities. The IHR also establish procedures for international collaboration and information sharing during public health events.
Less than a decade ago , the idea that most nations in the world would commit to working toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was seen as unlikely, and certainly not a priority for the global health community. Today, we face an entirely different landscape. Since the 2010 World Health Report Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage, more than 70 countries have approached WHO to request technical assistance in moving forward on UHC. A movement has built among global and national actors, leading to the passage of the UN Resolution endorsed by more than 90 countries in December 2012 to make UHC a key global health objective. Commitment is increasing for UHC to be the umbrella health goal in the post-2015 framework.
A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Connecting Organizations for Regi...The Rockefeller Foundation
This document is an introduction to a supplement issue of the Emerging Health Threats Journal on regional disease surveillance networks. It discusses the importance of early detection of infectious diseases through improved global surveillance. It introduces Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS), which aims to build collaboration across surveillance networks. The supplement contains overview papers on CORDS and the evolution of regional networks. It also includes network profiles of the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance network, East Africa Integrated Disease Surveillance Network, and others. Commentaries discuss lessons learned from evaluating surveillance networks and the contributions of clinical laboratory networks.
1. Health care-associated infections (HCAIs) are a major global problem that impact patient safety. They prolong hospital stays, increase costs, and often result in disability or death.
2. In developed countries, 5-15% of hospitalized patients acquire HCAIs, and rates are even higher in intensive care units, sometimes affecting up to 37% of patients. European studies show HCAI prevalence rates of 4.6-9.3% among hospitalized patients.
3. Proper hand hygiene is one of the most important measures to reduce HCAI transmission and burden. However, hand hygiene compliance among health workers is low worldwide. Improving practices can significantly decrease infection rates
Scope: The action plan provides a road map and a menu of policy options for all Member States and other stakeholders, to take coordinated and coherent action, at all levels, local to global, to attain the nine voluntary global targets, including that of a 25% relative reduction in premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases by 2025.
Focus: The main focus of this action plan is on four types of NCDs — cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes — which make the largest contribution to morbidity and mortality due to NCDs, and on four shared behavioral risk factors — tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol. It recognizes that the conditions in which people live and work and their lifestyles influence their health and quality of life.
Q3-PPT-HEALTH10- Significance of Global health Initiatives.pptxGlenn Lim
Global health initiatives address major health problems worldwide. They provide funding and programs to fight diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. They also work to ensure access to vaccines, promote public health policies, and aid children's health. Key organizations include the Global Fund, GAVI, WHO, UNDP, and UNICEF. They implement programs and policies across countries to improve health outcomes globally and advance equitable healthcare worldwide.
Mundo Offshore - Coronavirus update - Luigi Wewege article (English)Luigi Wewege
The world is already facing financial, social and personal security issues on an ever increasing scale. The Coronavirus is yet another challenge in this plethora of attacks on personal and financial freedom, so the experts of Mundo Offshore have decided to prepare a report. This report is intended to give advice so you can prepare yourself for the upcoming challenges that you will have to face both in a financial and a personal sense.
1) Global health innovation aims to improve health standards worldwide through new techniques and measures that save lives, from simple tools to vaccines.
2) Major organizations working on innovations include the World Health Organization, USAID, and CARE, which help combat pandemics like COVID-19 and support developing countries.
3) Global health faces challenges including pandemics, environmental factors, economic disparities, political issues, and animal health, which innovations aim to address to improve health globally.
The document summarizes 10 major threats to global health according to the World Health Organization:
1) Air pollution and climate change threaten health through increased deaths from diseases like cancer, stroke and respiratory illnesses.
2) Noncommunicable diseases like heart disease and cancer account for over 70% of deaths worldwide.
3) A global pandemic of an infectious disease like influenza is inevitable and defenses may not be strong enough.
4) Fragile settings with weak health systems and ongoing crises leave over 1.6 billion people without basic care.
5) Antimicrobial resistance threatens modern medicine's ability to treat infections through overuse of antibiotics.
6) Ebola and other high-threat pathogens continue to emerge
The report from the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases makes the following key points:
1) NCDs and mental disorders pose a major threat to global health and development, especially in developing countries.
2) Failure to implement proven prevention and treatment measures is increasing healthcare costs, with lack of investment having enormous health, economic, and social consequences.
3) The four main NCDs - cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes - are largely preventable through policies addressing tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity.
TIME TO DELIVER - WHO Report on NCD's 2018 Sailesh Mishra
Report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases - ISBN 978-92-4-151416-3.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its
pledge to leave no one behind, is our boldest agenda for
humanity. It will require equally bold actions from Heads of
State and Government. They must deliver on their timebound
promise to reduce, by one-third, premature mortality
from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through prevention
and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.
Because many policy commitments are not being
implemented, countries are not on track to achieve this
target. Country actions against NCDs are uneven at best.
National investments remain woefully small and not
enough funds are being mobilized internationally. There is
still a sense of business-as-usual rather than the urgency
that is required. Plenty of policies have been drafted, but
structures and resources to implement them are scarce.
Public health emergencies DR. MADHUR VERMA PGIMS ROHTAKMADHUR VERMA
This document discusses public health emergencies and preparedness. It defines a public health emergency and outlines the criteria used for determining if an event constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It also discusses notification procedures, verification of events, and the roles of various organizations like WHO in assessing and responding to potential public health emergencies. Key aspects of public health emergency preparedness are outlined, including health risk assessment, defining roles and responsibilities, and maintaining epidemiological and laboratory functions to monitor and detect public health threats.
Globalization has increased risks from international threats like pandemics, environmental degradation, and ethnic violence. Strategies are needed to deal with these threats through improved surveillance, distribution of medicines, and understanding the causes of conflicts. Preventive actions before crises occur are important but difficult for governments. Underlying economic issues from globalization like unemployment and inequality can contribute to these threats if not addressed through education, health programs, and infrastructure investment. International cooperation through organizations like WHO and UN is vital to strengthen global efforts against diseases and support national health systems.
UN SDG # 3 : Good Health and Well being
The goal III, aims to address all the major health priorities with regard to child and maternal health, end of communicable diseases, reducing the number of non-communicable diseases cases, ease of access to safe and affordable medicines and vaccines and ensure universal health coverage (UHC), to help build productive and resilient communities. Despite making rapid strides in improving the health and well being through innovation, new drug discoveries and R&D, health care inequality does persist over access. Earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000-2015, focussed on specific health conditions of maternal and child health, communicable diseases viz; HIV/AIDS, other diseases like Tuberculosis, vector borne diseases like Malaria. What MDGs lacked was focus with regard to entire health system and how they cater to health services for overall health and wellbeing. SDGs 2030 agenda from 2015-2030 , has set the target towards focus on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which includes access to health services and with financial risk protection.
The document is a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on preventing suicide. It aims to increase awareness of suicide as a major public health issue and encourage countries to develop comprehensive suicide prevention strategies. Suicide impacts vulnerable populations worldwide and is preventable with timely interventions. The report provides a global knowledge base on suicide and guidance for multi-sectoral national responses tailored to countries' resources and contexts. It emphasizes the need for leadership from governments to coordinate stakeholders to tackle this imperative public health challenge.
This document discusses risk communication principles for influenza events. It begins by defining risk communication and explaining its importance for public health responses. It describes how the public perceives risks and how perceptions are influenced by factors like control and familiarity. The document outlines lessons from past outbreaks that effective risk communication requires building trust, acknowledging uncertainty, coordination, transparency, and involving affected communities. It recommends steps for risk communication including knowing when and to whom to communicate and translating scientific information for different audiences. The key principles of risk communication are creating and maintaining trust and understanding public concerns.
The document provides an introduction and overview of the World Health Organization (WHO). It discusses WHO's role in international health as the directing and coordinating authority within the UN. It summarizes some of WHO's key activities like producing health guidelines, supporting health research, and jointly tackling global health problems. It also briefly outlines WHO's history, structure, partnerships, and some notable achievements in eradicating diseases.
Please readRobert Geraci, Russia Minorities and Empire,” in .docxTatianaMajor22
Please read:
Robert Geraci, “Russia: Minorities and Empire,” in Abbott Gleason, ed., A Companion to Russian History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 243-260.
And discuss:
How does Geraci portray the legacy of the early Russian history for the make-up of 18-19th century Russia?
Please read: Leonard Victor Rutgers, “Roman Policy Towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome during the First Century C.E.,” in Classical Antiquity, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Apr., 1994), pp. 56-74.
And discuss: Rutgers surveys the different reasons historians have given for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome in the first century C.E. Who place did Jews have in Roman society at this time? Were they expelled because of their religious practices, or because they were ‘unruly’ as Rutgers argues? If so, what caused them to act in this way? What kind of historical evidence does the author use?
There are 2 essay, each one should write at least 300-350 words and plus one reference page.
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LEONARD VICTOR RUTGERS
Roman Policy towards the Jews:
Expulsions from the City of Rome
during the First Century c. E.
Tant de causes secretes se melent souvent a la cause apparente, tant de ressorts
inconnus servent a persecuter un homme, qu'il est impossible de demeler dans les
siecles posterieures la source cachee des malheurs des hommes les plus consider
ables, a plus forte raison celle du supplice d'un particulier qui ne pouvait etre
connu que par ceux de son parti.
-Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance (1763)
IN THIS ARTICLE I want to discuss the evidence for expulsions of Jews from
the city of Rome in the first century C.E. Scholars have long been interested in the
reasons underlying these expulsions. Because the anci.
Ford VS ChevroletThere are many reasons that make the Chevy.docxTatianaMajor22
Ford VS Chevrolet
There are many reasons that make the Chevy’s and Ford’s motors two most common trucks. Studies reveal that that they are the most popular vehicles on sales today. It is because they are powerful, versatile and reasonably priced. They also come in a wide variety of configurations and styles. However, many buyers and sellers have questioned themselves on the better vehicle compared to the other in terms of quality, Wi-Fi, price ranges, value, and costs. To compare and contrast on this subject, let us take an example of two vehicles each from each company to facilitate comparison.
Ford offers the full-size track with automatic high-beam control, automatic parallel parking and power-retractable running boards. Fords are elegant, and they are mostly aluminum making them save weight and bolster gas mileage. None of these features are offered Chevy’s. Chevrolets have outstanding quality. They are mostly comprised of steel, for instance, the Chevrolet Silverado. This makes them good for rough roads and difficult terrains.
Fords have employed the use of up to date Wi-Fi technology. Ford intends to provide the Ford Sync, which will provide robust connections for occupants. Latest Chevrolet brands Malibu utilize the 4G LTE Wi-Fi Technology that provides rich in-vehicle experiences. This technology is powerful compared to Ford Sync, and is used for connecting devices and executing few remote operations within the car.
From the value and cost standpoint, Ford can consume a little more, and its payload capacity is a little higher. Additionally, its mileage is too better. The prices vary from nation to nation. Chevrolet seems to be a little cheaper, and reasonably priced going for $33,044, which is slightly less than Ford, but the differences are not serious to propel buyers towards one truck leaving the other
Technophiles are likely to put their preferences on Ford to Chevrolet. On overall, Fords have many features as compared Chevy’s. However, they may be hard to maintain. Compared to Fords, Chevrolets are reliable and cheaper. However, the two brands are equally good performers. It is, therefore, prudent to pick what one thinks would fit his or her usage and preference and personal style
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Public health emergencies DR. MADHUR VERMA PGIMS ROHTAKMADHUR VERMA
This document discusses public health emergencies and preparedness. It defines a public health emergency and outlines the criteria used for determining if an event constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It also discusses notification procedures, verification of events, and the roles of various organizations like WHO in assessing and responding to potential public health emergencies. Key aspects of public health emergency preparedness are outlined, including health risk assessment, defining roles and responsibilities, and maintaining epidemiological and laboratory functions to monitor and detect public health threats.
Globalization has increased risks from international threats like pandemics, environmental degradation, and ethnic violence. Strategies are needed to deal with these threats through improved surveillance, distribution of medicines, and understanding the causes of conflicts. Preventive actions before crises occur are important but difficult for governments. Underlying economic issues from globalization like unemployment and inequality can contribute to these threats if not addressed through education, health programs, and infrastructure investment. International cooperation through organizations like WHO and UN is vital to strengthen global efforts against diseases and support national health systems.
UN SDG # 3 : Good Health and Well being
The goal III, aims to address all the major health priorities with regard to child and maternal health, end of communicable diseases, reducing the number of non-communicable diseases cases, ease of access to safe and affordable medicines and vaccines and ensure universal health coverage (UHC), to help build productive and resilient communities. Despite making rapid strides in improving the health and well being through innovation, new drug discoveries and R&D, health care inequality does persist over access. Earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000-2015, focussed on specific health conditions of maternal and child health, communicable diseases viz; HIV/AIDS, other diseases like Tuberculosis, vector borne diseases like Malaria. What MDGs lacked was focus with regard to entire health system and how they cater to health services for overall health and wellbeing. SDGs 2030 agenda from 2015-2030 , has set the target towards focus on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which includes access to health services and with financial risk protection.
The document is a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on preventing suicide. It aims to increase awareness of suicide as a major public health issue and encourage countries to develop comprehensive suicide prevention strategies. Suicide impacts vulnerable populations worldwide and is preventable with timely interventions. The report provides a global knowledge base on suicide and guidance for multi-sectoral national responses tailored to countries' resources and contexts. It emphasizes the need for leadership from governments to coordinate stakeholders to tackle this imperative public health challenge.
This document discusses risk communication principles for influenza events. It begins by defining risk communication and explaining its importance for public health responses. It describes how the public perceives risks and how perceptions are influenced by factors like control and familiarity. The document outlines lessons from past outbreaks that effective risk communication requires building trust, acknowledging uncertainty, coordination, transparency, and involving affected communities. It recommends steps for risk communication including knowing when and to whom to communicate and translating scientific information for different audiences. The key principles of risk communication are creating and maintaining trust and understanding public concerns.
The document provides an introduction and overview of the World Health Organization (WHO). It discusses WHO's role in international health as the directing and coordinating authority within the UN. It summarizes some of WHO's key activities like producing health guidelines, supporting health research, and jointly tackling global health problems. It also briefly outlines WHO's history, structure, partnerships, and some notable achievements in eradicating diseases.
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Please read:
Robert Geraci, “Russia: Minorities and Empire,” in Abbott Gleason, ed., A Companion to Russian History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 243-260.
And discuss:
How does Geraci portray the legacy of the early Russian history for the make-up of 18-19th century Russia?
Please read: Leonard Victor Rutgers, “Roman Policy Towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome during the First Century C.E.,” in Classical Antiquity, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Apr., 1994), pp. 56-74.
And discuss: Rutgers surveys the different reasons historians have given for the expulsion of the Jews from Rome in the first century C.E. Who place did Jews have in Roman society at this time? Were they expelled because of their religious practices, or because they were ‘unruly’ as Rutgers argues? If so, what caused them to act in this way? What kind of historical evidence does the author use?
There are 2 essay, each one should write at least 300-350 words and plus one reference page.
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Roman Policy towards the Jews: Expulsions from the City of Rome during the First Century
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Author(s): Leonard Victor Rutgers
Source: Classical Antiquity, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Apr., 1994), pp. 56-74
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LEONARD VICTOR RUTGERS
Roman Policy towards the Jews:
Expulsions from the City of Rome
during the First Century c. E.
Tant de causes secretes se melent souvent a la cause apparente, tant de ressorts
inconnus servent a persecuter un homme, qu'il est impossible de demeler dans les
siecles posterieures la source cachee des malheurs des hommes les plus consider
ables, a plus forte raison celle du supplice d'un particulier qui ne pouvait etre
connu que par ceux de son parti.
-Voltaire, Traite sur la tolerance (1763)
IN THIS ARTICLE I want to discuss the evidence for expulsions of Jews from
the city of Rome in the first century C.E. Scholars have long been interested in the
reasons underlying these expulsions. Because the anci.
Ford VS ChevroletThere are many reasons that make the Chevy.docxTatianaMajor22
Ford VS Chevrolet
There are many reasons that make the Chevy’s and Ford’s motors two most common trucks. Studies reveal that that they are the most popular vehicles on sales today. It is because they are powerful, versatile and reasonably priced. They also come in a wide variety of configurations and styles. However, many buyers and sellers have questioned themselves on the better vehicle compared to the other in terms of quality, Wi-Fi, price ranges, value, and costs. To compare and contrast on this subject, let us take an example of two vehicles each from each company to facilitate comparison.
Ford offers the full-size track with automatic high-beam control, automatic parallel parking and power-retractable running boards. Fords are elegant, and they are mostly aluminum making them save weight and bolster gas mileage. None of these features are offered Chevy’s. Chevrolets have outstanding quality. They are mostly comprised of steel, for instance, the Chevrolet Silverado. This makes them good for rough roads and difficult terrains.
Fords have employed the use of up to date Wi-Fi technology. Ford intends to provide the Ford Sync, which will provide robust connections for occupants. Latest Chevrolet brands Malibu utilize the 4G LTE Wi-Fi Technology that provides rich in-vehicle experiences. This technology is powerful compared to Ford Sync, and is used for connecting devices and executing few remote operations within the car.
From the value and cost standpoint, Ford can consume a little more, and its payload capacity is a little higher. Additionally, its mileage is too better. The prices vary from nation to nation. Chevrolet seems to be a little cheaper, and reasonably priced going for $33,044, which is slightly less than Ford, but the differences are not serious to propel buyers towards one truck leaving the other
Technophiles are likely to put their preferences on Ford to Chevrolet. On overall, Fords have many features as compared Chevy’s. However, they may be hard to maintain. Compared to Fords, Chevrolets are reliable and cheaper. However, the two brands are equally good performers. It is, therefore, prudent to pick what one thinks would fit his or her usage and preference and personal style
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Fairness and Discipline Weve all been disciplined at one.docxTatianaMajor22
Fairness and Discipline
We've all been disciplined at one time or another by a parent or a teacher. What disciplinary experiences have you had as a child that took a non-punitive approach?
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Appendix 12A Statement of Cash Flows—Direct MethodLEARNING .docxTatianaMajor22
Appendix 12A
Statement of Cash Flows—Direct Method
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
6
Prepare a statement of cash flows using the direct method.
To explain and illustrate the direct method, we will use the transactions of Computer Services Company for 2014, to prepare a statement of cash flows. Illustration 12A-1 presents information related to 2014 for Computer Services Company.
To prepare a statement of cash flows under the direct approach, we will apply the three steps outlined in Illustration 12-4.
Illustration 12A-1
Comparative balance sheets, income statement, and additional information for Computer Services Company
STEP 1: OPERATING ACTIVITIES
DETERMINE NET CASH PROVIDED/USED BY OPERATING ACTIVITIES BY CONVERTING NET INCOME FROM AN ACCRUAL BASIS TO A CASH BASIS
Under the direct method, companies compute net cash provided by operating activities by adjusting each item in the income statement from the accrual basis to the cash basis. To simplify and condense the operating activities section, companies report only major classes of operating cash receipts and cash payments. For these major classes, the difference between cash receipts and cash payments is the net cash provided by operating activities. These relationships are as shown in Illustration 12A-2.
Illustration 12A-2
Major classes of cash receipts and payments
An efficient way to apply the direct method is to analyze the items reported in the income statement in the order in which they are listed. We then determine cash receipts and cash payments related to these revenues and expenses. The following pages present the adjustments required to prepare a statement of cash flows for Computer Services Company using the direct approach.
CASH RECEIPTS FROM CUSTOMERS.
The income statement for Computer Services Company reported sales revenue from customers of $507,000. How much of that was cash receipts? To answer that, companies need to consider the change in accounts receivable during the year. When accounts receivable increase during the year, revenues on an accrual basis are higher than cash receipts from customers. Operations led to revenues, but not all of these revenues resulted in cash receipts.
To determine the amount of cash receipts, the company deducts from sales revenue the increase in accounts receivable. On the other hand, there may be a decrease in accounts receivable. That would occur if cash receipts from customers exceeded sales revenue. In that case, the company adds to sales revenue the decrease in accounts receivable. For Computer Services Company, accounts receivable decreased $10,000. Thus, cash receipts from customers were $517,000, computed as shown in Illustration 12A-3.
Illustration 12A-3
Computation of cash receipts from customers
Computer Services can also determine cash receipts from customers from an analysis of the Accounts Receivable account, as shown in Illustration 12A-4.
Illustration 12A-4
Analysis of Accounts Receivable
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Effects of Stress
Provide a 1-page description of a stressful event currently occurring in your life.
Discuss I am married work a full time job as an occupational therapy assistant am taking two courses
Have to take care of a home feed the animals attend to laundry
Think of my pateitns worry about their well being and what I can do for them ( I bring home my patients issues)
Constantly doing paper work for work such as documentation for billing
I feel like I have no free time for me some days I don’t even eat dinner or lunch because I don’t have time to make anything or am just too tired to cook
On top of this I am married and married ppl do argue and my husband am I have been bunting heads on finances.
Then, referring to information you learned throughout this course, address the following:
· What physiological changes occur in the brain due to the stress response?
· What emotional and cognitive effects might occur due to this stressful situation?
· Would the above changes (physiological, cognitive, or emotional) be any different if the same stress were being experienced by a person of the opposite sex or someone much older or younger than you?
· If the situation continues, how might your physical health be affected?
· What three behavioral strategies would you implement to reduce the effects of this stressor? Describe each strategy. Explain how each behavior could cause changes in brain physiology (e.g., exercise can raise serotonin levels).
· If you were encouraging an adult client to make the above changes, what ethical considerations would you have to keep in mind? How would you address those ethical considerations?
In addition to citing the online course and the text, you are also required to cite a minimum of four scholarly sources. For reputable web sources, look for .gov or .edu sites as opposed to .com sites. Please do not use Wikipedia.
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Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
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Described a stressful event.
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Explained the physiological changes that occur in the brain due to the stress response.
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Explained the emotional and cognitive effects that may occur due to this stressful situation.
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Analyzed potential differences in physiological, cognitive, and emotional responses in someone of a different age or sex.
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Discussed the physical health risks.
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Provided three behavioral strategies to reduce the effects of the stressor and explained how each could cause changes in brain physiology.
40
Analyzed ethical considerations in implementing behavioral strategies and offered suggestions for addressing these.
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Design Factors NotesCIO’s Office 5 People IT Chief’s Offi.docxTatianaMajor22
Design Factors
Notes
CIO’s Office
5 People
IT Chief’s Office
5 People
LAN/WAN Maint.
20 People
Reception
4 People
Telecommunications
20 People
LAN Management
50 People
Server Room A
2 Person
Server Room B
4 Person
Equipment:
Patch Cable
Computer to Wall
Patch Cable
LAN Room
Cable Trays/Runs
Horizontal Runs
Cisco Border Router
Research: Attached to 5 Floor Switches
Server Room A
10 Servers
Server Room B
10 Servers
Computers
One Per Person
Standard floor (first floor) Lesson 2 Project Plan info
Design Factors
Notes
CIO’s Office
5 People
IT Chief’s Office
5 People
LAN/WAN Maint.
20 People
Reception
4 People
Telecommunications
20 People
LAN Management
50 People
Server Room A
2 Person
Server Room B
4 Person
Equipment:
Patch Cable
Computer to Wall
Patch Cable
LAN Room
Cable Trays/Runs
Horizontal Runs
Cisco Border Router
Research: Attached to 5 Floor Switches
Server Room A
10 Servers
Server Room B
10 Servers
Computers
One Per Person
Basement floor
Design Factors
Notes
Vertical Riser Run
On Outside Wall of LAN Room on Each Floor.
Fiber-Optic Multimode
Riser Runs: Backbone
SC Connectors
Fiber-Optic Cable
Cisco Catalyst: Switch: WS-C3750G-24PS-S: 24 Ports
Leave a Minimum of four ports free on each switch
Color Laser Printer
Minimum of One per Room or One per 20 people
Vertical Riser Run
On Outside Wall of LAN Room on Each Floor and Server RM B on this floor.
Fiber-Optic Multimode
Riser Runs: Backbone
SC Connectors
Fiber-Optic Cable
Cable Trays/Runs
Horizontal Runs
Horizontal Runs
Leave a Minimum of four ports free on each switch
Applicataion
U.S. Minimum Requirement Ranges
Space per Employee - 1997
Two people, such as a supervisor and an employee, can meet in an office with a table or desk between them
60" to 72" x 90" to 126:/5.78m2 to 11.7m2
280Sq. Ft./26.0m2
Worker has a primary desk plus a return
60" to 72"x60"to 84"/5.78 to 7.8m2
193Sq. Ft./17.9m2
Executive office - three to four people can meet around a desk
105 to 130"x96 to 123"/9.75 to 11.4 m2
142Sq. Ft./13.2m2
Basic workstation such as a call center
42" to 52" x 60" to 72"/3.9 to 6.7 m2
114Sq. Ft./10.6 m2
NT1310: Project
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PRO JECT D ESC RIPT ION
As the project manager for the Cable Planning team, you will manage the creation of the cable plan for
the new building that will be built, with construction set to begin in six weeks.
The deliverables for the entire Cable Plan will consist of an Executive Summary, a PowerPoint
Presentation and an Excel Spreadsheet. You will develop different parts of each of these in three parts.
The final organization should contain these elements:
The Executive Summary:
o Project Introduction
o Standards and Codes
Cable Standards and Codes
Building Standards and Codes
o Project Materials
o Copper Cable, Tools, and Test Equipment
o Fiber-Optic Cable, Tools, and Test Equipment
o Fiber-Optic Design Considerations
o Basement Server Comp.
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Case Study 1 Questions1. What is the allocated budget .docxTatianaMajor22
Case Study 1 Questions:
1. What is the allocated budget ? $250,000
2. Where does the server room located? Currently, there is no server room
3. What is the number of users with PCs inside each existing site?
Currently there are
4. What is the current cabling used in each location? (cat5e or cat6) Current cabling does not meet the company’s current and future needs
5. Do want us to upgrade token Ring or use a completely new Ethernet network What is your recommendation and why?
6. regarding the ordering system , it is not clear what the we should do , do you want to talk about how to connect the system to the network or how to built the ordering online system because it is more software engineering than networking . Talk about the kind of network (hardware) you recommend based on the business requirements
7. all the sites should have access to our servers in the main branch? yes
8. Regarding the order software, do you need more details about the way it works or just about its connection with the network? Your solution should be from a network point of view
9. Distances are given in Meters or feet? feet
10. Shipment is done by truck, or ships? Currently, only trucking
11. In Dimebox branch, where are administration offices located? See Business goals # 4
12. What is the current network connectivity status? How many devices are currently on the network? How they are physically laid out? Is cabling running all over the floor, hidden in walls or threaded through the ceiling? What are the switches used and its speed? Currently, only the office is networked (token ring) NOVELL
13. What is the minimum Internet speed wanted? See Business Goals on page 2 – I only can tell you what we need the network for, you must tell me what we need to meet the business needs
14. Will the corporation provide wireless access? If yes will it be in all department and buildings? Wireless access would be helpful if we can justify the cost
15. Are there phones in offices? yes
16. What is the internet speed available now? What speed do you want for future? Internet access is through time warner cable company which is not very reliable
17. Do employees access their emails outside the company? yes
18. Do you have plans for future expansion? We like to increase our customer base by 20% over the next year
REMEMBER, you are the IT expert, I’m only a business person who must rely on your expertise.
Network Design and Performance
Case Study
Dooma-Flochies, Inc. with headquarters located on Podunk Road in Trumansburg, NY, is the sole manufacturer of Dooma-Flochies (big surprise). They currently have a manufacturing facility in, Lake Ridge, NY (across Cayuga Lake) on Cayuga Dr. and have recently diversified by purchasing a company, This-N-That, on Industry Ave. in, Dime Box Texas. This-N-That is the sole competitor of Domma-Flochies with their product Thinga-Ma-Jigs. This acquisition gives Dooma-Flochies, Inc a monopoly in this mark.
Behavior in OrganizationsIntercultural Communications Exercise .docxTatianaMajor22
Behavior in Organizations
Intercultural Communications Exercise Response Paper –
Week 5
The most overt cultural differences, such as greeting rituals and name format, can be overcome most easily. The underlying, intangible differences are very difficult to overcome. In this case, the underlying cultural differences are
· Assumptions about the purpose of the event (is the party strictly for fun and for relationship building, or are their business matters to take care of?).
· Assumptions about the purpose and the nature of business relationship.
· Assumptions about power and leadership relationships (who makes the decisions and how?).
· Response styles (verbal and nonverbal signals of agreement, disagreement, politeness, etc.).
Many (though not all) cultural differences can be overcome if you carefully observe other people, think creatively, remain flexible, and remember that your own culture is not inherently superior to others.
The Scenario
Three corporations are planning a joint venture to sponsor an international concert tour. The corporations are Decibel, an agency representing the musicians (from the US, Britain, and Japan); Images, a marketing firm which will handle sales of tickets, snacks and beverages, clothing, and CDs; and Event, a special events company which will hire the ushers, concessionaires, and security officers; print the programs; and clean up the arenas after the shows. The companies come from three different cultures: Blue, Green, and Red. Each has specific cultural traits, customs, and practices.
You are a manager in one of these companies. You will attend the opening cocktail party in Perth, Australia the evening before a 3-day meeting during which the three companies will negotiate the details of the partnership. Your management team includes a Vice President and a number of other managers.
During the 3-day meeting, the companies have the following goals:
Decibel
· As high a royalty rate as possible on sales of T-shirts, videos, and CDs
· Aggressive marketing and advertising to increase attendance and sales
· Good security, both before and during the show Image
Image
· Well known bands that will be easy to market
· As much income as possible from the concerts
· Smoothly functioning event so that publicity from early concerts is positive
Event
· Bands that are not likely to provoke stampedes, riots, or other antisocial behavior
· Bands that are reliable and will show up on time, ready to play
· As much income as possible from the concerts
The cultures that are assigned to the various companies are:
BLUE CULTURE
Image (Marketing Company)
Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes that Underlie This Culture’s Communication
Believe that fate and luck control most things.
Believe in feelings more than reasoning.
An authoritarian leader makes the ultimate decisions.
Nonverbal Traits of This Culture
Treat time as something that is unimportant. It is not a commodity that can be lost.
Conversation distance is close (about 15 inches, face-.
Discussion Question Comparison of Theories on Anxiety Disord.docxTatianaMajor22
Discussion Question:
Comparison of Theories on Anxiety Disorders
There are numerous theories that attempt to explain the development and manifestation of psychological disorders. Some researchers hold that certain disorders result from learned behaviors (behavioral theory), while other researchers believe that there is a genetic or biological basis to psychological disorders (medical model), while still others hold that psychological disorders stem from unresolved unconscious conflict (psychoanalytic theory). How would each of these theoretical viewpoints explain anxiety disorders? Does one explain the development and manifestation of anxiety disorders better than the others?
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Three min resources with
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Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders such as panic disorder, specific phobias, and social anxiety disorder feature a heightened autonomic nervous system response that is above and beyond what would be considered normal when faced with the object or situation that the person reacts to. For example, a person with a specific phobia of spiders (called arachnophobia) experiences a heightened autonomic response when confronted with a spider (or even an image of a spider). This anxiety response must result in significant distress or impairment. In general, anxiety disorders have been linked to underactive gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain, resulting in overexcitability of the amygdala and the anterior cingulate cortex. Additionally, genetic research shows that anxiety disorders demonstrate a clear pattern of genetic predisposition
Charles Darwin's Perspective
We talked about Charles Darwin when discussing evolution and natural selection. Darwin was also very interested in emotions. One of his books published in 1872,The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, was devoted to this topic.
Darwin believed that emotions play an important role in the survival of the species and result from evolutionary processes in the same way as other behaviors and psychological functions. Darwin's writing on this topic also prompted psychologists to study animal behavior as a way to better understand human behavior.
James–Lange Theory of Emotions
Modern theories of emotion can be traced to William James and Carl Lange (Pinel, 2011). William James was a renowned Harvard psychologist who is sometimes called the father of American psychology. Carl Lange was a Danish physician. James and Lange formulated the same theory of emotions independently at about the same time (1884). As a result, it is called the James–Lange theory of emotions. This theory reversed the commonsensical notion that emotions are automatic responses to events around us. Instead, it proposes that emotions are the brain's interpretation of physiological responses to emotionally provocative stimuli.
Cannon–Bard Theory of Emotions
In 1915, Harvard physiologist Walt.
I have always liked Dustin Hoffmans style of acting, in this mov.docxTatianaMajor22
I have always liked Dustin Hoffman's style of acting, in this movie he takes on a sexually deprived young male just out of college, and has never been with a female, and is duped by horny older woman that feels neglected. Dustin Hoffman takes the characters form of a young male, goofy, respectful virgin and intelligent male, missing something but not really sure at the beginning till Ann Bancroft coaxes him with seduction to fulfill her own needs. In an other movie called "The life of Little Big Man" he plays almost the same character but as a white child raised by the Native Americans and a wise old chief that deeply care and loves him as his own, and Fay Dunaway plays a Holy rollers wife that is older and sexually deprived and feeling neglected by her husband and also she goes through major changes in her life from devoted wife, to a honey bell/ house hooker, whats funny Dustin Hoffman is a awesome actor but has to have his surrounding characters bring his character to life. The Graduate was Dustin Hoffman's first big movie of his career.
I actually liked movie "Little Big man" way better due to he went through major changes in his life, from being a Native boy warrior, captured by Yankees, meets Fay Dunaway who loves to give baths, to finding his sister who teaches him to be a gunslinger and then returns to his Grand Father to be a native again and tells his blind Grand Father the world of the white man is a crazy one, then his see the Psyho Col. Custer and gets his revenge by telling Custer the truth. The movie Little Big Man makes you laugh, teaches you things about people and survial and cry at times... its a must see...
Although a stray away from the Benjamin Braddock written about in the novel The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman does an awesome job with this character on film. When you first meet Ben he is at a party that his parents are throwing in his academic honor upon his graduation from school and return home. The whole night, Hoffman stumbles though various conversations and tries to coyly escape from the festivities. Small things such as this Hoffman did a great job at, conveying the hesitance and crisis that Ben was going through as a graduate. There are multiple times in the movie he hardly expresses anything at all, yet it clearly shows you that Ben is having a very hard time internally with everything going on. Even through his relationships with Mrs. Robinson and her daughter Elaine you see the young man struggling with himself through either failed attempts at affection or lack thereof.
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Is obedience to the law sufficient to ensure ethical behavior Wh.docxTatianaMajor22
Is obedience to the law sufficient to ensure ethical behavior? Why, or why not? Support your answer with at least three reasons that justify your position.
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Discuss the differences between an attitude and a behavior. Provide 4 substantive reasons why it is important for organizations to monitor and mitigate employee behavior that is either beneficial or detrimental to the organization's goals and existence.
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If you are using the Blackboard Mobile Learn IOS App, please click "View in Browser." V BUS 520Week 9 Assignment 4 Paper
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Assignment 4: Leadership Style: What Do People Do When They Are Leading?
Due Week 9 and worth 100 points
Choose one (1) of the following CEOs for this assignment: Larry Page (Google), Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Gary Kelly (Southwest Airlines), Meg Whitman (Hewlett Packard), Ursula Burns (Xerox), Terri Kelly (W.L. Gore), Ellen Kullman (DuPont), or Bob McDonald (Procter & Gamble). Use the Internet to investigate the leadership style and effectiveness of the selected CEO. (Note: Just choose one that is easier for you to right about.) It does not matter to me which CEO you pick
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
1. Provide a brief (one [1] paragraph) background of the CEO.
2. Analyze the CEO’s leadership style and philosophy, and how the CEO’s leadership style aligns with the culture.
3. Examine the CEO’s personal and organizational values.
4. Evaluate how the values of the CEO are likely to influence ethical behavior within the organization.
5. Determine the CEO’s three (3) greatest strengths and three (3) greatest weaknesses.
6. Select the quality that you believe contributes most to this leader’s success. Support your reasoning.
7. Assess how communication and collaboration, and power and politics influence group (i.e., the organization’s) dynamics.
8. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Analyze the formation and dynamics of group behavior and work teams, including the application of power in groups.
· Outline various individual and group decision-making processes and key factors affecting these processes.
· Examine the primary conflict levels within organization and the process for negotiating resolutions.
· Examine how power and influence empower and affect office politics, political interpretations, and political behavior.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in organizational behavior.
· Write clearly and concisely about organizational behavior using proper writing mechanics.
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If the CIO is to be valued as a strategic actor, how can he bring to the table the ethos of alignment, bound to the demands of process strategic planning to move IT to the forefront of the organization's future? Is there a lack of information on strategic planning? Nope. I think the process of planning is poorly understood, and rarely endorsed. The reasons are simple enough. Planning requires a commitment of resources (time, talent, money); it requires insight; it requires a total immersion in the corporate culture. While organizations do plan, planning is invariably attached to the budget process. It is typically here that the CIO lays out his/her vision for the coming year Now a few years ago authors began writing on the value of aligning IT purpose to organizational purpose. They wrote at a time when enterprise architectural planning was fairly new, and enterprise resource management was on the lips of every executive. My view is that alignment is a natural process driven by the availability of the tools to accomplish it. Twenty years ago making sense of IT was more about processing power, and database management. We are in a new age of IT, and it is the computer that is the network, not the network as an independent self-contained exchange of information. If you will spend some time reviewing the basic materials I provided on strategic planning and alignment, we can begin our discussions for the course. Again, here is the problem I would like for us to tackle: If the CIO is to be valued as a strategic actor, how can he bring to the table the ethos of alignment, bound to the demands of process strategic planning to move IT to the forefront of the organization's future? Most of the articles I bundled together for this week are replete with tables and charts. These can be a heavy read. Your approach should be to review these articles for the "big ideas" or lessons that are take away. I think these studies are significant enough that we will conclude our first week with an understanding of the roles between executive leaders, and how they see Information Technology playing a role in shaping a business strategy.
Read the articles to answer the question. Please No Plagerism or verbatim but you are allowed to quote from the article.
Achieving and Sustaining
Business-IT Alignment
Jerry Luftman
Tom Brier
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n recent decades, billions of dollars have been invested in intormation tech-
nology (IT). A key concern of business executives is alignment—applying IT
in an appropriate and timely way and in harmony with business strategies,
goals, and needs. This issue addresses both how IT is aligned with the busi-
ness and how the business should be aligned with IT Frustratingly, organizations
seem to find it difficult or impossible to harness the power of information tech-
nology for their own long-term benefit, even though there is worldwide evi-
dence that IT has the power to transform whole industries and markets.' How
can companies.
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I am showing below the proof of breakeven, which is fixed costs/ contribution margin.
We start with the definition of breakeven and proceed using elementary algebra to derive the formula. Breakeven is a number and is created by knowing fixed and variable costs, and the retail sales price. It is thus not a point of discussion but is based on the assumptions of these variables.
Proof of Breakeven
Definition of BreakevenVolume: Total Revenue = Total Expenses
Definition
1.Total Revenue = Total Expenses
Breakdown of Definition
2. Retail Price * Volume = Fixed Expenses + Variable Expenses
Further Analysis
3. Retail Price * Volume = Fixed Expenses + (Volume * Unit Variable Expenses)
Subtract (Volume * Unit Variable Expenses) from both sides
4. Fixed Expenses = (Retail Price * Volume) — (Volume * Unit Variable Expenses)
Factor
5. Fixed Expenses = Volume * (Retail Price – Unit Variable Expenses)
Divide both sides by (Retail Price – Unit Variable Expenses)
6. Volume = Fixed Expenses
(Retail Price – Unit Variable Expenses)
Substitution based on Definition
7. Since (Retail Price — Unit Variable Expenses) is called Contribution Margin,
Therefore:
Breakeven Volume = Fixed Expenses / Contribution Margin
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1. Explain some of the economic, social, and political considerations involved in changing the tax law.
2. Explain the difference between a Partnership, a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and a Limited Liability Company (LLC). In each structure who has liability?
3. How is “control” defined for purposes of Section 351 of the IRS Code?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using debt in a firm’s capital structure?
5. Under what circumstances is a corporation’s assumption of liabilities considered boot in a Section 351exchange?
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7. Why are corporations allowed a dividend-received deduction? What dividends qualify for this special deduction?
8. Provide 3 examples of a Constructive Dividend. Are these Constructive Dividends taxable?
9. Discuss the tax consequences of a new Partnership Formation and give details to gain and losses and basis?
10. Provide 2 similarities and 2 differences when comparing Sections 351 and 721 of the IRS Code.
11. What is the difference between inside and outside basis with a partnership?
12. ABC Partnership distributes $12,000 of taxable income to partner Bob and $24,000 of tax-exempt income to Partner Bob. As a result of these two distributions, how does Bob’s basis change?
13. On January 1, Katie pays $2,000 for a 10% capital, profits, and loss interest in a partnership.
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Examine the way in which death and dying are viewed at different points in human development.
Using only my text as a reference:
Berger, K.S. (2011). The developing person through the life span (8th ed.).
I need 3 detailed PowerPoint slide with very detailed speaker notes. There must be detailed speaker notes on each slide. The 4th slide will be the reference.
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Karimi 1
Big Picture Blog Post First Draft
College Girls in Media
Sogand Karimi
Media and Hollywood movies have affected and influenced society’s perception on
female college students. Due to Hollywood movies and media, society mostly recognizes the
negative stereotypes of a college women. Saran Donahoo, an associate professor and education
administration of Southern Illinois University, once said, “The messages in these films
consistently emphasized college as a place where young women come to have fun, engage in
romances with young men, experiment with sex and alcohol, face dilemmas regarding body
image, and encounter difficulties in associating with other college women.” In this essay I will
be talking about the recurring stereotypes and themes portrayed in three hollywood movies,
Spring Breakers, The house bunny and Legally Blond and how these stereotypes affect our
society.
The movie Spring Breakers is about four college girls who are bored with their daily
routines and want to escape on a spring break vacation to Florida. After realizing they don’t have
enough money, they rub a local diner with fake guns and ski masks. They break the laws in order
to get down to Florida, just to break more rules and laws once they’re there. During the film, you
will notice a lot of partying, drugs and sexual activity. The four girls wear bikinis for majority of
the film and are overly sexual. These are some common themes and stereotypes seen in all three
movies. Media and movies like spring breakers have made it a norm to constantly want to party,
get drunk and have sex as a college woman. In an article by Heather Long, she mentions how the
movie can even be seen as supporting rape culture. She believes because of these stereotypes
always being shown in media, it is contributing to the “girls asking for it” excuse when it comes
to rape cases with young girls. Long also said “...never mind the fact that thousands of college
students are spending their spring break not on a beach, but volunteering with groups like Habitat
for Humanity and the United Way, especially after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.” THIS shows
how media only displays one side of a certain group or story. Even though not all college girls
like to party and lay on a beach naked for spring break, that’s what media likes to portray. Not
only does this give the wrong message to our society but it influences bigger issues like rape, as
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The movie House bunny. The House bunny is a movie about an ex playmate or girlfriend
if Hugh Hefner that gets kicked out of the Playboy Mansion due to her aging. She then becomes
a mother of an unpopular sorority with girls that are bit geeky, and unusual compared to other
girls on campus. The story.
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Please try not to use hard words Thank you
Week 3
Individual
Problems and Goals Case Study
Select one of the following three case studies in Ch. 6 of The Helping Process:
· Case Susanna
· Case James and Samantha
· Case Alicia and Montford
Identify three to five problems in the case study you have selected.
Write a 500- to 700-word paperthatincludes the following:
· A problem-solving strategy and a goal for each problem
· The services, resources, and supports the client may need and why
· A description of how goals are measurable and realistically attainable for the client
Here is the case studies
Exercise 3: Careful Assessment
The following case studies are about Susanna, James, Samantha, Alicia, and Montford, all
homeless children attending school. The principal of the school has asked you to conduct
an assessment of these children and provide initial recommendations.
Before you begin this exercise, go to the website that accompanies this book: www.
wadsworth.com/counseling/mcclam, Chapter Three, Link 1, to read more about homeless
families and children.
Susanna
Susanna is 15 years old. Th e city where she lives has four schools: two elementary, one
middle, and one high school. Th ere are about 1,500 students enrolled in the city/county
school district and about 450 in the local high school that Susanna is attending. For the
past six months, Susanna has been living with her boyfriend and his parents. Prior to this,
she left her mother’s home and lived on the streets. She is pregnant and her boyfriend’s
parents want her to move out of their home. Her father lives in a town with his girlfriend,
about 50 miles from the city. Her mother lives outside the city with Susanna’s baby brother.
Right now Susanna’s mother is receiving child support for the two children. Susanna wants
to have a portion of the child support so that she can find a place of her own to live. Her
mother says that the only way that Susanna can have access to that money is to move back
home. Susanna refuses to move back in with her mother.
You receive a call from the behavior specialist at Susanna’s high school. Susanna’s
mother is at the school demanding that Susanna be withdrawn from school. Susanna’s
mother indicates that Susanna will be moving in with her and will be enrolling in another
school district.
Currently Susanna is not doing very well in school. She misses school and she tells the
helper it is because she is tired and that she does not have good food to eat. She has not told
the helper that she is looking for a place to live. Right now she is failing two of her classes
and she has one B and two Ds. Her boyfriend has missed a lot of school, too.
James and Samantha
James is 10 years old and he has a sister, Samantha, who is 8. At the beginning of the
school year, both of the children were attending Boone Elementary School. Both children
live with their aunt and uncle; their parents are in prison. In the middle of the scho.
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Contents
4. The re-emergence of infectious diseases
- The threat continues
- The 21st century: already a long series of scourges
- Faster and further with a greater impact
- Ready and able to detect the next outbreak
- One Health and emerging and re-emerging pathogens
- Known epidemics: still a severe threat
- Strengthening health systems: essential in epidemics
Burden of epidemics: illustrations
Challenges and risk factors for 21st century epidemics
- New lifestyles spread diseases further
- Revisiting traditional control measures
- Equity and solidarity
- Epidemics of rumours: a new risk to health
Foreword
About this handbook
PART I : EPIDEMICS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
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Key insights into infectious disease epidemics
Response tips and checklists
- Coordinating responders
- Health Information
- Communicating risk
- Health Interventions
Focus 1: Community engagement during epidemics
-Definingacommunity
- Why engage communities
- Three elements of community engagement
- Ten things to know
- Ensuring effective community engagement
Focus 2: Risk communication – a life-saving action in public
health emergencies
- The essence of risk communication
- 21st century aspects change and complicate risk
communication
- Making it effective
- Ten things to know and do
- Other factors to remember
Focus 3: Treating patients and protecting the health workforce
- Advances in medicine: antibiotics, antivirals, vaccines and
new treatments
6. - Treating patients with supportive care
- Protecting frontline responders
- Confronting the human resources crisis
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PART II: BE IN THE KNOW. 10 KEY FACTS ABOUT 15
DEADLY DISEASES
8. YELLOW FEVER
ZIKA
CHIKUNGUNYA
AVIAN AND OTHER ZOONOTIC INFLUENZA
SEASONAL INFLUENZA
PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (MERS)
CHOLERA
MONKEYPOX
PLAGUE
LEPTOSPIROSIS
MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
PART III: TOOL BOXES
Tool box 1: The role of WHO
Tool box 2: The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on
vaccine provision
Tool box 3: Tables for laboratory diagnosis and shipment of
infectious substances
Tool box 4: Transport of infectious substances
Tool box 5: Vector control during epidemics
9. Acknowledgements
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Foreword
Can we create a pandemic-free world? There is no such
thing as a guarantee, but with meticulous preparation
and rapid response, we can prevent most outbreaks
from getting out of control, and limit the impact of
those that spread internationally.
First, we must build and sustain resilient capacities at
national, regional and global levels to prevent, detect
and respond to outbreaks, in accordance with the
International Health Regulations.
And second, we must ensure that populations affected
by emergencies have rapid access to essential life-
saving health services, including medicines and
vaccines.
That’s why WHO works all around the world to
strengthen health systems, built on the foundation
of people-centred primary health care that focuses
on health promotion and disease prevention, with a
10. strong focus on surveillance systems.
Delivering on these priorities will cost money of course,
but only a fraction of what remaining unprepared will
cost. In the end, prevention is not only better than cure;
it’s cheaper.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Spanish flu, the
deadliest
outbreak in recorded history. Up to 50 million people were
killed,
more than the death toll from the First World War.
Thankfully, we have not seen a public health emergency on that
scale since then. But we may at any time. Outbreaks are a fact
of life,
and the world remains vulnerable. We do not know where or
when
the next global pandemic will occur, but we do know that it will
take
a terrible toll, both on human life, and on the global economy.
None of us will ever forget the West African Ebola outbreak in
2014.
It taught us a valuable lesson: that global health security is only
as
strong as its weakest link. No-one is safe until everyone is safe.
Keeping the world safe is one of WHO’s three top strategic
priorities in our new General Programme
of Work. We are setting ourselves a goal that over the next five
years, 1 billion more people will be
better protected from epidemics and other health emergencies.
This manual is a valuable tool to help countries make progress
towards that goal. It offers expert
11. guidance to help WHO’s country representatives and others to
respond quickly in the earliest stages
of an outbreak.
But it’s not enough just to respond to outbreaks. We must do
our best to prevent them by addressing
the root cause of health insecurity: the lack of access of the
most vulnerable people to essential
health services.
Ultimately, it’s the absence of universal health coverage that is
the greatest threat to health security.
Universal health coverage and health security are two sides of
the same coin.
2018 is also a milestone year for WHO.
It’s our 70th birthday – a reminder that the reasons we were
created are as relevant now as they were
at our beginning. WHO was founded on the principle that all
people should be able to realize their
right to the highest possible level of health. “Health for all” has
always been our guiding vision.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General of the World Health Organization
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About this handbook
Handbook purpose
Epidemics of infectious diseases are occurring more often, and
spreading faster and further than
ever, in many different regions of the world. The background
12. factors of this threat are biological,
environmental and lifestyle changes, among others.
A potentially fatal combination of newly-discovered diseases,
and the re-emergence of many
long-established ones, demands urgent responses in all
countries. Planning and preparation for
epidemic prevention and control are essential.
The purpose of this “Managing epidemics” manual is to provide
expert guidance on those
responses.
Although this publication is open to a wide readership, it is
primarily intended to help the World
Health Organization (WHO) country representatives (WRs) to
respond effectively and rapidly at
the very start of an outbreak.
The manual provides concise and basic up-to-date knowledge
with which WRs can advise
Ministries of Health in all countries. Specifically, it examines
and explains in detail a total of 15
different infectious diseases and the necessary responses to each
and every one of them.
These diseases have been selected because they represent
potential international threats for
which immediate responses are critical. Nearly all of them are
subject to WHO’s International
Health Regulations (2005) monitoring, and are part of the
Global Health Security Agenda.
Perhaps the greatest threat outlined in the manual is an
influenza pandemic, which is both
unpredictable and inevitable. In the worst-case scenario, there
13. will be no protective vaccine for six
months or longer after the virus is identified, and even there
will be a global shortage of doses.
On this and other threats, the manual focuses on practical and
indispensable things to know about
infectious diseases that are most important for national political
and operational decision-makers;
it also links readers to more exhaustiv e WHO guidance. It has
been developed in parallel with the
creation of the WHO MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
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Handbook structure
The manual is structured in three parts.
• Part One “Epidemics of the 21st century”
provides vital insights on the main features of
the 21st century upsurge and the indispensable
elements to manage them.
• Part Two “Be in the know. 10 key facts about
15 deadly diseases” contains key information
about 15 diseases (Ebola Virus Disease, Lassa
Fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever,
Yellow Fever, Zika, Chikungunya, Avian and Other
Zoonotic Influenza, Seasonal Influenza, Pandemic
Influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome,
Cholera, Monkeypox, Plague, Leptospirosis and
Meningococcal Meningitis). This section provides
tips on the interventions required to respond to
epidemics of all these diseases.
• Part Three “Tool boxes” gives an overview
and summarized guidance on some other
important topics, including: the role of WHO,
14. the International Coordinating Group, laboratory
diagnosis and shipment of infectious diseases
substances, and vector control.
The handbook enables the three levels of WHO
– its Headquarters, Regional Offices and Country
Offices to work efficiently together by building the
foundations of a shared conceptual and thinking
framework, which includes common terminology.
This “Managing epidemics” manual will be regularly
updated. The next versions will incorporate
additional infectious diseases.
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PART I Epidemics of the
21st century
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The re-emergence of
infectious diseases
The threat continues
We are continuously learning about the unpredictable powers of
nature.
This is nowhere more true than in the continuous evolution of
new infectious
threats to human health that emerge – often without warning –
15. from the
natural environment.
Already in these first two decades of the 21st century, the world
has been sharply
reminded time after time of the degree to which people in all
countries and on all
continents remain chronically vulnerable to infectious diseases,
known and unknown.
In the 1970s, and for years afterwards, this remarkable progress,
including the development of
new vaccines, antibiotics and other treatments and technologies,
led to a proclamation of a victory
of mankind over microbes. Many experts thought it was “the
time to close the book on the problem
of infectious diseases” (Jesse Steinfeld, MD, US Surgeon
General, 1969).
Here lay the roots of a dangerous complacency. The microbes
didn’t go away. They just went out
of sight. Instead, the focus turned to chronic, noncommunicable
diseases, which came to receive
much more attention. But nature was by no means in retreat. In
fact, it seemed to return and took
many health institutions and decision makers by surprise.
Since 1970, more than 1,500 new pathogens were discovered, of
which 70% proved to be of animal
origin: a connection that deserves renewed scrutiny. Not all of
them have had a public health impact
but some of them have become famous. They included the Ebola
virus, in 1976, and the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV), in 1983.
Pause for a moment and reflect that HIV, a relatively new
16. disease in human history, has infected
about 70 million people in just 35 years, and killed an estimated
35 million people in the same
period. Consider also that in the last 40 years, Ebola has
surfaced in almost 25 separate and deadly
outbreaks, often after long spells in which it has apparently lain
dormant. And now ask the question:
Will history repeat itself?
The answer must be: Yes, it will. A new HIV, a new
Ebola, a new plague, a new influenza pandemic
are not mere probabilities. Whether transmitted
by mosquitoes, other insects, contact with animals
or person-to-person, the only major uncertainty is
when they, or something equally lethal, will arrive.
The obvious follow-up question is: So what are we
doing about it? This purpose of this handbook is
to provide as many answers as possible. In doing
so it examines a range of challenges and real or
potential solutions, ranging from the medical and
technological to the social and political.
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The 21st century: already a long series of scourges
In order to try to see the road ahead more clearly, we need
frequently to look over our shoulders – all
the more so, because these early years of the 21st century have
already been deeply scarred by so many
major epidemics.
17. Take plague, one of the most ancient scourges. A thing of the
past? By no means. A major outbreak in
Madagascar in 2017 led to a total of at least 2,417 confirmed,
probable and suspected cases, including
209 deaths. Most cases were of the more fatal pneumonic type
which is also transmissible from person to
person, but there were also several hundred cases of bubonic
plague. Nine countries and territories with
trade and travel links to Madagascar were put on plague
preparedness alert.
The lesson here is that, over time, diseases very rarely
disappear. And there always seems to be room for
new ones.
SARS – Severe acute respiratory syndrome - was unheard of
before 2003. But it affected more than 8,000
people, killing about one in ten of them, causing fear and panic
across the world, and inflicting enormous
economic damage, especially in Asian countries.
In 2009, a novel influenza virus, H1N1, started to spread,
creating the first influenza pandemic of the 21st
century. But – and this is a reason for cautious hope - it was not
as severe as expected thanks to recent
preparedness efforts. The importance of these efforts is a core
issue in this handbook.
In 2012-2013, a new virus surfaced in the Middle East, causing
an epidemic of what became MERS –
Middle East respiratory syndrome – that spreads fatally into
many countries beyond that region.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra
Leone) in 2014 was unlike the previous 24
localized outbreaks observed since 1976. Instead of bei ng
18. restricted geographically, this one seriously
affected three African countries and spread to six other
countries in three continents, and sparked alarm
worldwide.
In 2015, the Zika virus, transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti
mosquito, triggered a wave of microcephaly in
Brazil. This disease causes dreadful damage in the brains of
unborn babies. Almost 70 countries, one after
another, then experienced their own Zika epidemic. There are
probably many more to come, because
most of the global intertropical zone has a high density of
Aedes Aegypti that transports the disease.
And so a clear pattern continues to take shape. Old diseases –
Cholera, Plague, Yellow fever among
them – often return, and new ones invariably arrive to join
them. About 40 outbreaks of cholera alone are
reported to WHO every year.
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Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is an
international organisation that was
created in 2000 to improve access to new
and underused vaccines for children living
in the world’s poorest countries.
The International Health
Regulations (2005) or IHR (2005) are
an international law which helps countries
work together to save lives and
livelihoods caused by the international
19. spread of diseases and other health risks.
The IHR (2005) aim to prevent, protect
against, control and respond to the
international spread of disease while
avoiding unnecessary interference with
international traffic and trade.
The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
(PIP) Framework brings together Member
States, industry, other stakeholders and WHO
to implement a global approach to pandemic
influenza preparedness and response. Its
key goals include:
- to improve and strengthen the sharing
of influenza viruses with human
pandemic potential; and
- to increase the access of developing
countries to vaccines and other
pandemic related supplies.
The Global Outbreak Alert and
Response Network (GOARN) is a
technical collaboration of existing
institutions and networks who pool
human and technical resources for
the rapid identification, confirmation
and response to outbreaks of
international importance.
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Faster and further with a greater impact
This pattern has another, deeply troubling aspect. The
epidemics in the 21st century are spreading faster
and further than ever. Outbreaks that were previously localized
can now become global very rapidly – just
24. as fast, in fact, as an intercontinental aircraft can fly. Thus, an
individual flying from one side of the world
can introduce a new disease into the other, within hours, and
before even showing symptoms. And in this
way, far from its origins, the microbe finds a new home.
For example, the influenza pandemic of 2009 reached all
continents in less than nine weeks. In recent
outbreaks, yellow fever made it all the way from Angola to
China, but, fortunately, there were only
imported cases with no sustainable circulation in the mosquito
population.
In 2015, it took just one traveler returning home to the Republic
of Korea from spending time in the
Middle East to bring MERS back with him. The consequences: a
Korean outbreak, 186 cases, 36 deaths,
and outbreak-related losses of approximately US$ 8 billion, all
in the space of two months.
Thus, 21st century epidemics can spread more
widely and more quickly, potentially affecting
ever-greater numbers of people. They also
can have a ruinous impact on the economy of
the affected country and spill over into to the
global economy, disrupting travel, trade and
livelihoods.
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Ready and able to detect the next outbreak
Given the effects of globalization, the intense mobility of
human populations, and the relentless
25. urbanization, it is likely that the next emerging virus will also
spread fast and far. It is impossible to predict
the nature of this virus or its source, or where it will start
spreading.
But we can say, with a high degree of certainty, that when it
comes, there will be (a) an initial delay in
recognising it; (b) a serious impact on travel and trade; (c) a
public reaction that includes anxiety, or even
panic and confusion, and (d) this will be aided and abetted by
media coverage.
The concept of global health security, a central issue in this
handbook, represents a new determination
by, or on behalf of, human society to protect itself from the
health impact and social disruption caused
by outbreaks. It encompasses a spectrum of ways and means
that offer worldwide protection against the
threats of infectious diseases, backed by revised and more
powerful International Health Regulations
(2005).
But to make the world safer, global health security depends
crucially on much greater awareness,
cooperation and collaboration between individual countries,
agencies, organizations and communities.
The continuing scientific uncertainty around disease emergence
requires even more collaboration and
global awareness than has previously existed, not least to
improve early detection.
Recent outbreaks, however, show how difficult this can be, even
with good public health surveillance
systems. Early recognition of emergence typically starts with
clinicians who can detect unusual clusters of
severe cases, take samples to allow laboratory diagnostics and
26. alert surveillance units.
Often, poorer communities around the world, especially those in
remote areas, lack easy access to care.
This has major implications when an infectious threat occurs.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa remained
undiagnosed for more than two months. This time lag allowed
the virus to spread unseen, and to reach
capital cities where the outbreaks grew into large epidemics. In
such circumstances, it is essential to raise
clinicians’ awareness and provide them with the relevant
knowledge and diagnostic tools to enable
them to perform effectively as detectors and first-line
responders.
As we have signaled earlier, another indispensable element of
increasing health security is
preparedness. This should be flexible enough to adapt to any
novel agent, but should be directed
primarily at known pathogens because some of them are likely
to behave differently than previously.
The recent plague outbreak in Madagascar, described earlier, is
a good example of known diseases
with new patterns.
In addition, the fear generated by the emergence of a
previously-unknown infection may be
greatly out of proportion to its real public health impact. Fear
often generates inadequate decisions
or inappropriate behaviours, including stigma of certain at-risk
populations. The impact on travel and
trade and on economies can be disproportionate, as it has been
seen in the Republic of Korea during
the MERS epidemic. To a certain extent, global health security
also encompasses economic and human
security. Thus, risk communication is critical to minimise the
27. social, political and subsequently economic
impact of an epidemic, and this is also a major focus of this
publication.
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One Health and emerging and re-emerging pathogens
Epidemics are sparked either by the re-emergence of pathogens
that have been familiar for a long time,
but now threaten new, immunologically vulnerable populations,
or are newly-emerging ones. They come
in a daunting array of species of bacteria, viruses, fungi and
parasites. Some are borne in contaminated
water or food; others are carried in the air we breathe and by
human touch.
As noted earlier, 70% of emerging human pathogens come from
animals. This is a burgeoning threat,
because animals are intensively farmed, transported for trade
and kept in close contact with other species
and humans in market places.
Early detection often relies on close collaboration between the
animal health and wildlife sectors (the
“One Health” approach); otherwise early signals of emergence
in animals or the environment are often
missed. This collaborative approach, another pivotal element of
global health security, can also contain
outbreaks at an early stage by reducing animal-to-human
transmission.
Because these diseases are rare and outbreaks
are generally contained quickly, these
28. epidemics have not been a priority among the
research community or manufacturers in the
development of medical countermeasures.
Nevertheless, more research is needed to
identify precisely the modes of transmission
and medical countermeasures.
Today’s harsh reality is that there is as yet
no vaccine or treatment for most emerging
diseases. This is not as hopeless as it might
seem at first. WHO has developed a Research
& Development (R&D) Blueprint for action
to prevent epidemics: it is a global strategy
and preparedness plan that allows the rapid
activation of R&D activities during epidemics.
Its aim is to fast-track the availability of effective
tests, vaccines and medicines that can be
used to save lives and avert large scale crisis.
However, public health interventions have to
rely primarily on social-distancing measures
to reduce human transmission, and on
controlling the source of infection (for instance
by culling of infected animals/elimination of
the reservoir). Thus, to prevent the spread of
emerging diseases, it is vitally important to
ensure early detection of a new pathogen and
the start of human-to-human transmission.
Enhanced international information and virus
sharing among laboratories is being actively
encouraged and pursued. This is necessary
to enable research and development of
countermeasures. The results of this sharing
are potentially life-saving interventions
(vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics). But
they also need to be underpinned by specific
29. mechanisms to ensure they become widely
available and accessible on an equitable basis.
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Known epidemics: still a severe threat
Fortunately, control programmes are already long-established
and widely-applied for some known
epidemic diseases, such as cholera, HIV infection, influenza,
meningitis, malaria, tuberculosis and yellow
fever.
However, even if medical countermeasures are available, these
diseases remain a threat for many of
the world’s populations, either because of their rapidly evolving
nature (e.g. influenza) or because
equitable access to effective public health measures is difficult.
There are many reasons for limited access
to vaccines: production capacity does not meet the demand (e.g.
yellow fever, pandemic influenza),
explosive outbreaks exhaust the available vaccines (e.g.
meningitis), or the absence of markets prevents
access to the intervention in case of emergencies (e.g. oral
cholera vaccine). In addition, in many
affected countries, the weakness of the existing health care
system prevents effective access to medical
interventions (diagnostics and treatment).
Therefore, although it is reassuring that sound knowledge and a
range of potential control interventions
are available, expert guidance must be constantly updated to
incorporate scientific and technological
progress. Equally important, access to life-saving interventions
30. must be improved in all settings
worldwide.
The current global strategy is to reach elimination or
eradication of these diseases through
vaccination or investment in and implementation of other
countermeasures.
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Strengthening health systems: essential in epidemics
In order to mitigate the impact of epidemics, protect the health
workforce and ensure continuity of
health services during and after them, stronger health systems
are needed. Epidemics and pandemics
put these systems under great pressure and stress. The sudden
influx of large numbers of sick individuals
to health facilities stretches the systems’ capacity and
resources, even more so and more noticeably
where resources are already scarce.
When an epidemic emerges and spreads, it inevitably draws
most of health responders’ attention and
monopolizes most of the health system’s human and financial
resources, as well as medical products and
technologies.
People, efforts, and medical supplies all shift to respond to the
emergency. This often leads to the neglect
of basic and regular essential health services. People with
health problems unrelated to the epidemic find
it harder to get access to health care services. Some may die as
a result, if the disruption overwhelms the
31. health system. Mortality rates of other diseases for which
people could not get treatment may rise.
Furthermore, health care settings, and especially emergency
rooms, can become hubs of transmission.
Many people get infected there, if prevention and control
measures are not properly implemented. This
is particularly true for unknown and emerging pathogens (for
instance, MERS). A delay in the recognition
of the disease will lead to delay in applying the right pr otection
measures. Infected patients will be able
to transmit the disease because health care workers, family
members and other patients will not know
how to protect themselves. Because health care settings and
emergency rooms are usually crowded,
the lack of appropriate infection prevention and control for
example through triage, isolation, and other
precautions can be very significant.
Health systems resilience after epidemics may be challenging
for unprepared health systems. Indeed, if
the health system is ill-prepared to cope with epidemics of
infectious diseases, health care workers, at
the frontline of the response, may themselves
become infected and die. Tragic as such
cases are, they have wider consequences.
In countries where there are health staff
shortages, the loss of several more health
workers further weakens the health system.
It takes years to train new medical staff and
rebuild the health workforce. In the meantime,
other constraints are burdening the health
system that still has to provide the usual and
regular services.
32. Long-term substantial investments should
therefore be made to strengthen health
systems so they are able to provide safe,
effective and qualitative health services before,
during and after epidemics. Critical elements
include an appropriate health financing system
and a fit-for-purpose workforce that is trained,
safe and provided with personal protective
equipment. In addition, access to essential
medical products and technologies and a
business continuity plan are essential to ensure
that health systems are strong enough to
withstand the increased needs and to mitigate
the impacts of very disruptive epidemics.
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9
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36
10
2
4
2
6
42. Epidemic events* globally, 2011 – 2017**: A total of 1,307
epidemic events
Number of epidemic events* by disease and year
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017**
TOTAL
Yellow fever
Chikungunya
Viral haemorrhagic fever
Ebola virus disease
Marburg virus disease
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
Rift Valley fever
Cholera
Typhoid fever
Shigellosis
Plague
Lassa fever
West Nile fever
43. Zika virus disease
Meningitis
MERS-CoV
Influenza A
Monkeypox
Nodding syndrome
Nipah virus infection
* Analysis excluded Poliomyelitis. The following epidemic
and pandemic
diseaseswereanalysed:AvianInfluenzaA(H5N1),A(H7N9),A(H7
N6)A(H10N8),A(H3N2),A(H5N6),A(H9N2),
Chikungunya, Cholera, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever,
Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, Marburg virus disease,
Meningitis, MERS-CoV, Monkeypox, Nodding syndrome, Nipah
virus
infection, Plague, Rift Valley fever, Shigellosis, Typhoid fever,
Viral haemorrhagic fever, West Nile fever, Yellow fever, Zika
virus disease. If a disease caused more than 1 epidemic event by
year in a country, it was only counted once for the year it
occurred in that country. Includes cases imported or locally
transmitted.
**
WHO/IHMdataasof12January2018(note:2017dataisnotcomplete)
Source: data reported to WHO and in media
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52. 220
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017**
* Analysis excluded Poliomyelitis. The following epidemic
and pandemic diseaseswereanalysed:AvianInfluenza
A(H5N1),A(H7N9),A(H7N6)A(H10N8),A(H3N2),A(H5N6),A(H
9N2),Chikungunya,Cholera,Crimean-Congo
haemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, Marburg
virus disease, Meningitis, MERS-CoV, Monkeypox,
Nodding syndrome, Nipah virus infection, Plague, Rift Valley
fever, Shigellosis, Typhoid fever, Viral haemorrhagic
fever, West Nile fever, Yellow fever, Zika virus disease. If a
53. disease caused more than 1 epidemic event by year
in a country, it was only counted once for the year it occurred in
that country. Includes cases imported or locally
transmitted.
**
WHO/IHMdataasof12January2018(note:2017dataisnotcomplete)
Number of epidemic events* by year**
Source: data reported to WHO and in media
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The face of epidemics and pandemics has changed in the recent
past and continues to do so. Many new
factors contribute to an increase in the transmissibility and
severity of infectious diseases.
New lifestyles spread diseases further
New and more intense factors amplify the transmission of
diseases, either because they increase contacts
between people, or between animals and people. In an era of
rapid global change, many of these factors
are almost inevitable. Among them are the fast and intense
mobility of people, with increased transport
and international travel, and greater inter-connectivity between
megacities which are major transport
hubs for aircraft, trains, road vehicles and ships.
At the same time, globalization means increased trade among
countries as well as greater movement of
people within and between them. For decades, more and more
54. people have been migrating from the
countryside into cities, in search of better jobs and improved
living standards. The unprecedented levels
of urbanization and swelling populations of city dwellers
inescapably pose greater risks of infectious
disease transmission.
These risks apply at least equally to densely populated areas on
the periphery of cities, where rural areas
overlap with them. Here, close and repeated contacts between
people and livestock, domestic animals
and wildlife raise the likelihood risk of new epidemics. To make
matters worse, these peri-urban areas
tend to be poorer, and local people have less access to health
care
facilities. The double jeopardy here is that their infections may
go undetected and untreated, while the options for detection,
prevention and control are reduced. The Ebola outbreak
in 2014 has dramatically demonstrated this.
Regrettably, the early years of the 21st century
have seen many humanitarian emergencies, the
massive displacement of populations fleeing from
civil unrest, political instability, conflicts wars and natural
disasters. Millions of people have been uprooted from
their homes and become either refugees, asylum-seekers or
economic migrants, and find themselves living in conditions,
often overcrowded, that also increase infection risks.
Challenges and risk factors for
21st century epidemics
55. Potentially hazardous changes are also taking
place in the use of land, agricultural practices
and food production, such as live poultry and
animal markets, and deforestation – which also
leads to increased contact between people
and wildlife. Some of these animals – monkeys,
for example - are likely sources of new
pathogens. Finally, ecological changes, such
as climate change, also contribute to disease
transmission.
Other factors contribute to increase the
virulence and mortality of epidemic diseases.
Chief among them, as we have noted earlier,
are limited access to health care, and poor
health care systems that have inadequate
infection prevention and control practices. The
conflicts and wars referred to above not only
cause civilian casualties and displacements:
they destroy health care facilities exactly when
and where they are most needed.
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Revisiting traditional control measures
We have also seen that many traditional containment measures
are no longer efficient. They should
therefore be re-examined in the light of people’s expectations of
more freedom, including freedom of
movement. Measures such as quarantine, for example, once
regarded as a matter of fact, would be
unacceptable to many populations today.
56. The use of antibiotics to treat infections has been a turning
point in the 20th century. Antimicrobial
resistance is now on a rise. This is a major concern because a
resistant infection may kill, can spread to
others, and requires finding new ways to treat and limit the
spread of the disease. Antimicrobial resistance
occurs naturally, but is facilitated by the inappropriate use of
medicines, for example using antibiotics for
viral infections such as cold or flu, or using antibiotics for
animal growth in the animal sector. Among
major infectious diseases, the treatment of tuberculosis is the
most affected, and there are now strains of
the microorganism that are multi-drug resistant.
Equity and solidarity
Epidemics are complex events: complex in
their origins, their spread, their effects and their
consequences – which can be at one and the same
time medical, social, political and economic.
The global impact of a single pathogen may
vary significantly between settings and there is
no one-size-fits-all intervention strategy.
Equity and solidarity issues are often part of the
picture: access to medical countermeasures
remains difficult, especially for low-income
countries and countries facing humanitarian
emergencies, and this difficulty is worsened
when vaccine or treatment production is
limited. Market mechanisms do not ensure a fair
distribution of resources based on public health
demands. Global mechanisms are needed to
ensure fair access to life-saving interventions
during crises. A number of organizations are
dedicated to this goal (among them are CEPI,
57. the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness
Innovations; the International Coordinating
Group; GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance; the Pandemic
Influenza Preparedness Framework) but more
efforts are required.
Epidemics of rumours: a new risk to
health
A new word has entered the public health
vocabulary: “infodemics”. These can be defined
as the rapid spread of information of all kinds,
including rumours, gossip and unreliable
information. They are spread instantly and
internationally through the growing popular use
of mobile phones, social media, the internet
and other communication technologies. A
proliferation of web-based “experts” with diverse
and often contradictory views can generate
confusion, anxiety and even panic in times of
serious infectious outbreaks. False or misleading
information is dangerous. It can cause widespread
public reluctance to adopt well-founded infection
control measures promoted by health authorities
– and thus delay essential interventions.
This is why risk communication, a set of
sophisticated skills, is increasingly employed
by health authorities, agencies, physicians
and professional health personnel. It is more
important now than ever to learn and apply them.
The latest and most accurate information must
be conveyed frequently, and uncertainties related
to an epidemic must be acknowledged in order
to maintain credibility and public trust.
Thus, we are recognizing that the complexity
58. of 21st century epidemics and their prevention
and control require not just new technologies
techniques, but new skills and new attitudes
all across the public health community. Risk
communication is examined at greater length in
a later section of this handbook.
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A whole-of-society approach is needed to
tackle 21st century epidemics so that all
the diverse disease drivers are taken into
consideration: genetics and biological factors,
ecology and the physical environment; human
behaviour and demographics; social, political,
and economic factors, and so on.
This increasing convergence of many factors
that drive and amplify outbreaks requires multi-
disciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-faceted
approaches.
Moreover, because epidemics are social
problems as much as medical ones, we need
to move beyond the traditional biomedical
approaches to them. Social sciences should
be an integral part of surge capacities adding
anthropologists to the team of first responders.
Such a change enables issues of fear and trust
to be addressed within the social context.
Engaging communities and empowering
them in advance as part of preparedness
ensures that there is a better understanding
59. of the human ecology. This will link community
and biomedical perspectives for enhancing
effective partnerships, ensuring that pre-
existing relationships are built to respond to
epidemics.
Key insights into infectious
disease epidemics
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Because new infectious disease threats usually start locally, it is
important to understand their dynamics in
order to deny them the opportunity to spread further among
people and overwhelm health systems. The
dynamics of epidemic and pandemic diseases typically occur in
four phases, although not all epidemic
diseases necessarily go through each phase.
The first phase is the introduction or emergence in a
community. The second phase is an outbreak
with localized transmission, where sporadic infections with the
pathogen occur. In the third phase, the
outbreak amplifies into an epidemic or pandemic - the pathogen
is able to transmit from human to
human and causes a sustained outbreak in the community,
threatening to spread beyond it. The fourth
phase is reduced transmission when human-to-human
transmission of the pathogen decreases, owing
to acquired population immunity or effective interventions to
control the disease. These four phases are
illustrated on this page.
60. The dynamics of epidemics, as described above, define the
response and the sequence of interventions
that then become necessary. Here, there are five crucial stages.
First is the anticipation of new and re-emerging diseases to
facilitate faster detection and response;
followed by their early detection of emergence in animal and
human populations; the third stage is the
containment of the disease at the early stages of transmission;
followed by the control and mitigation
of the epidemic during its amplification; and fifth, the
elimination of the risk of outbreak or eradication
of the infectious disease. These stages are elaborated in the
illustration, and in the section that follows.
Epidemic phases
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Anticipation: In this first stage of response, emergence cannot
be predicted, but it can certainly be
anticipated, and the anticipation of risks enables a focus on the
most likely threats. Anticipation
encompasses forecasting the most likely diseases to emerge, and
the quick identification of the drivers
that will worsen the impact or facilitate the spread.
Preparedness plans, based on lessons learned from
past experiences, should contain a variety of scenarios to allow
for a reactive response to the unexpected.
Early detection: Emerging and re-emerging diseases include
new ones about which there is little
scientific knowledge. These, therefore, often require
61. investigation into their sources at the same time
as the use of coordinated, rapid-containment measures. New
diseases require new interventions. And
because they appear irregularly or rarely, there is a need for
constant vigilance, proactive risk assessment
and the development of new management tools.
Early detection allows the rapid implementation of containment
measures, which are the key to reducing
the risk of amplification and potential international spread.
Early detection begins at the health care
setting, so health care workers must be trained to recognize
potential epidemic disease, report quickly
an unusual event (such as an unusual cluster of cases or deaths).
Their role is also to reduce the risk of
community transmission by isolating severely-ill patients; to
prevent household transmission by protecting
health care givers at home; and to reduce the mortality rate.
Health care workers must also know how to
protect themselves and employ infection prevention and control
measures and how to avoid outbreaks
amplified in health care facilities.
Epidemic phases and response interventions
Anticipation
Early
detection
Control and
mitigation
Elimination or
eradicationContainment
Introduction or
62. emergence
Localized
transmission
Amplification Reduced
transmission
Response
interventions
Epidemic
phases
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Once a new disease is recognized by the health system, early
laboratory confirmation is essential. When
this cannot be done at country level, the affected countries must
be confident they can count on the
support of a network of more sophisticated regional or global
laboratories. It is critically important for
global health security that there is a system for safely taking
samples and shipping specimens to relevant
laboratories in full compliance with biosafety and biosecurity
regulations.
Containment: Effective and rapid containment of emerging
diseases is just as vital as early detection in
order to avoid a large scale epidemic. Rapid containment should
start as soon as the first case is detected
regardless of the etiology, which is most likely to be unknown.
It requires skilled professionals to safely
63. implement the necessary countermeasures. Pre-training of these
professionals is essential to guarantee
the safety and efficiency of the operations.
Control and mitigation: Once the infectious disease threat
reaches an epidemic or pandemic level, the
goal of the response is to mitigate its impact and reduce its
incidence, morbidity and mortality as well as
disruptions to economic, political, and social systems.
Elimination or eradication: Control of a disease may lead to its
elimination, which means that is
sufficiently controlled to prevent an epidemic from occurring in
a defined geographical area. Elimination
means that the disease is no longer considered as a major public
health issue. However, intervention
measures (surveillance and control) should continue to prevent
its re-emergence.
Eradication of a disease – much more difficult and rarely
achieved - involves the permanent elimination of
its incidence worldwide. There is no longer a need for
interventions measures. Three criteria need to be
met in order to eradicate a disease: there must be an available
intervention to interrupt its transmission;
there must be available efficient diagnostic tools to detect cases
that could lead to transmission; and
humans must be the only reservoir.
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Response tips and checklists
64. A comprehensive outbreak response is
always complex, comprising many elements
that should be harmoniously coordinated.
The following response tips are used to organize ideas
and to make sure no important point is overlooked. In
this handbook, specific tips are listed for each disease
which will help keep focus on essential elements of each
response. They are organized into four main blocks:
• Coordinating responders (C)
• Health Information (HI)
• Communicating risk (C)
• Health Interventions (HI)
The checklists will help you assess what is important
and necessary for the response. The outbreak response
varies depending on the disease. For some diseases
treatment is essential; for other diseases, vaccination is
vital.
C
Coordinating responders
C
Communicating risk
HI
Health Information
HI
Health Interventions
Note: Although Communicating risk (C) is part of Health
65. Interventions (HI); it is seen here as
a separate component in order to underscore the importance of
risk communications.
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Coordinating responders
An outbreak is by definition an exceptional event which often
requires extra human and
financial resources and may also rely on additional partners,
agencies and other sectors. Strong
coordination is essential at all times to ensure that all those
resources and partners are working
effectively together to control the outbreak. WHO is often
expected to lead the international
response to support national health authorities.
Effective coordination requires a dedicated physical space
(usually an emergency operation
centre); various tools to ensure optimal organization of
meetings and filing of documentation
(such as a list of contacts, and a meetings tracking system); a
joint plan of action regularly
updated as the situation evolves, to describe the interventions
needed and the distribution
of roles and responsibilities among stakeholders; and finally
tools to ensure communication
between the various stakeholders engaged in the response
(phone numbers, a dashboard,
maps, and a directory).
Coordinating responders checklist
66. 4 What are the characteristics of the event that describe it as a
crisis?
4 Who are the people, groups and organizations who should
work for
the response?
4 What should they do? (terms of reference, functions)
4 Where can responders meet? (emergency operation centre)
4 How do they share information? (share point, telephone
numbers,
generic email)
For more information about coordinating responders:
• Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-
NET)
http://www.who.int/ihr/eoc_net/en/
• WHO Emergency Response Framework (ERF)
http://www.who.int/hac/about/erf/en/
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http://www.who.int/ihr/eoc_net/en/
http://www.who.int/ihr/eoc_net/en/
http://www.who.int/hac/about/erf/en/
http://www.who.int/hac/about/erf/en/
Health Information
67. In every event, information is necessary to monitor it, measure
the impact of interventions and
to guide decision-making throughout the crisis. There are two
particular types of information:
surveillance of the disease, and information on the interventions
(process and output indica-
tors), which shows the coverage and impact of the interventions
being performed. Surveillance
provides information on the number of cases and deaths by
period and place (people, time, and
place). Information on the interventions enables knowing which
ones are performed and what is
their coverage and impact.
Health Information checklist
Surveillance
4 Is there a case definition shared by all stakeholders?
4 Which laboratories are involved in the testing /confirmation
of cases
and deaths, and where are they situated?
4 Is there an updated epidemiological curve and mapping of
cases
and deaths?
4 Which are the risk groups, by gender and age?
Interventions
4 What is the target population?
4 What material and human resources are needed and how
much?
68. 4 What are the indicators of success? (e.g. vaccine coverage,
house-
holds targeted, number of people treated)
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Communicating risk
During the evolution of any major outbreak, cases and deaths
will inevitably increase. An epidemic
is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of
people in a given population within
a short period of time. Similarly, there may well be another kind
of epidemic – the rapid spread of
information of all kinds, including rumours, gossip and
unreliable information. We describe this
phenomenon as an “infodemic”.
Infodemics, like epidemics, can be managed. Field
epidemiology is an important part of
outbreak response. It encompasses three main areas: (1)
monitoring and identifying health
threats, (2) outbreaks investigation, and (3) actions for
mitigation and control. Similarly, successful
management of infodemics will be based on (1) monitoring and
identifying them, (2) analysis of
them, and (3) control and mitigation measures1.
Risk communication is an essential intervention in any response
to disease outbreaks, and is
equally necessary to manage infodemics. Communicating risk in
epidemics involves two-way
communication that is dynamic and evolving as the outbreak
69. develops.
Outbreak risk communication involves three main strands that
must work together.
1. Talk. Authorities, experts and response teams must quickly
relay information on the nature of
the event and the protective measures that people can take. We
can use mass media including
television, radio, newspapers and internet; social media and
text-messaging; community radio;
and leaflets and posters. We can use social mobilizers and
frontline responders; encourage
community engagement; as well as face-to-face communication
via trusted interlocutors
such as community leaders, religious figures and community
health workers. We must use
translational communication approaches to develop messages
that are appropriate for the
target populations in terms of language, educational level and
cultural contexts.
2. Listen. Responders, experts and authorities must quickly
assess and understand the fears,
concerns, perceptions and views of those affected; and tailor
their interventions and messages
to address such concerns. This requires the use of social science
and community engagement
expertise and methods.
3. Manage rumours. Disease outbreaks are often accompanied
by the presence of false rumours
and misinformation. Responders need to have ways to listen to
such misinformation and
correct examples of it in appropriate ways without delay.
70. 1
This is called “infodemiology”.
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Communicating about the risks during outbreaks leads to
specific outcomes.
First, early, transparent and understandable communication on
the event establishes lines of
dialogue with affected populations and stakeholders, and builds
trust in the response. This type
of communication must have facts and information (that cater to
the head); and include messages
that acknowledge and respond to people’s concerns and fears
(catering to the heart).
Second, frequent but evolving communication will help create a
trusted and dynamic relationship
that can deliver advice on protective behaviors that populations
and individuals can adopt.
Third, communication must scope the risk in lay language, and
also propose practical actions
people can take. It must identify and help enable changes in
people’s behaviours or practice (a
temporary change) that can reduce exposure to and protection
from the infectious hazard.
Fourth, communication must display accountability by keeping
people updated on the situation,
on what is being done, and the impact of those actions in
bringing the outbreak under control.
71. Communicating risk checklist
4 Has the situation been well analyzed in terms of audience,
sources and
specificity of the context?
4 Are tools in place in place to monitor an infodemic? Is
monitoring
reactive and adaptable enough?
4 Has translational communication taken place (to transform
scientific
information into lay language and format)?
4 Are the communication channels (and messengers) adequate,
effective
and acceptable to communities? (culturally, cost-effectively)?
4 Is there a plan to communicate regularly with the various
audiences?
4 Have all personnel and volunteers in the risk communication
response
been trained in risk communication approaches, and consistent
messaging?
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Health Interventions
Each disease requires a different set of health interventions with
the objectives of reducing
72. (a) transmission, (b) severe morbidity and mortality (c) the
impact on health systems and also on
the political and other sectors.
Health Interventions checklist
4 What are the key interventions needed to control the outbreak
at
this stage of the event?
4 Who should implement them?
4 How is the impact measured on morbidity, mortality,
transmission,
and whole of society?
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Six critical functions of the Incident Management System (IMS)
For more information about the
management of events under the ERF:
http://www.who.int/hac/about/erf/en/
The Emergency Response Framework (ERF) is an internal WHO
tool that outlines
a set of procedures to better respond to emergencies. Under this
framework, for any
emergency that requires a WHO operational response, the
Organization activates
the Incident Management System (IMS); recognized best
practice for emergency
management. WHO has adapted the IMS to consist of six
73. critical functions. The
four blocks and response tips are integrated into the Incident
Management System.
Although, all six functions of the IMS are critical for a
successful response, the four
blocks will highlight what is specific for each disease.
Operations
support
& logistics
Finance
&
administration
Health operations
& technical
expertise
HEALTH INFORMATION
HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
COMMUNICATING RISK
Information
& planning
HEALTH INFORMATION
Partner
coordination
COORDINATING RESPONDERS
74. Leadership/
Incident
management
COORDINATING RESPONDERS
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http://www.who.int/hac/about/erf/en/
FOCUS 1
Community engagement during
epidemics
Defining a community
“Community” is a broad term that can be
applied to a variety of situations. It defines a
distinct group of people who have a sense
of belonging together. A community may be
defined through the sharing of:
• A common geographical location;
• Common values or interests;
• Common identity;
• Etc.
With new technologies, a community may be
totally virtual, for instance a group of people
75. sharing interests and points of view on social
media.
Why engage communities
People live in unique social-cultural contexts,
with relationship dynamics, and their own
perception of risks, and trusted sources of
advice. These all influence if they accept
health advice or not. Experience has shown
that merely telling people what to do, however
scientific, does not always work. Engaging
them is more effective.
Even more fundamentally, people have a right
to information that could protect their health
and save lives, social fabric and economic well-
being.
Communities, when engaged
are the frontline in detecting
and managing epidemics. They
are most affected and have
the greatest influence in anticipation and
preparedness as new diseases emerge or
old ones re-emerge. They can detect
outbreaks, and help in containment to
prevent epidemic amplification. They
are able to implement mitigation measures
(through change of individual and family
practices change; implementing community
measures and enabling changes at the systems
level) to bring epidemics under control.
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Three elements of community
engagement
Disease outbreaks and epidemics are
complex phenomena with three aspects that
are intimately intertwined: medical, social
and political. Community engagement is an
approach to address the social (and to some
degree the political) aspects of epidemics.
Community engagement is essential for the
effective control of infectious diseases, through
acceptance of public health interventions. It is
based on three elements:
1. Establishing a dialogue between
responders and communities to understand
the perceptions and beliefs on both sides,
to identify the specific cultural and social
patterns of transmission that exist at
community level.
2. Building trust through this mutual
understanding to find joint solutions to
reduce transmission.
3. Empowering communities, providing them
with necessary medical and other supplies
to implement the measures required
to stop the disease, and progressively
transferring knowledge for sustained and
77. safe interventions within the community.
A key community to empower
during outbreaks are health
care workers, and volunteers
who are often the frontline
responders. These frontline
workers are “the face”
or representatives of the
whole outbreak response,
to the community.
Their attitude towards
community members
and their collaboration
in implementing health
advice can have significant
influence on how the advice
is perceived and accepted,
or rejected by community
members.
Key points of health action in epidemics that
require intensive engagement of communities
(affected populations as well as health care
workers and frontline responders themselves)
include:
1. Detecting an outbreak and detection of
newly infected people (case detection,
contact tracing);
2. Minimizing harmful practices (at individual
and community levels) that can increase
susceptibility and exposure; and adopting
protective practices (medical and non-
78. medical);
3. Seeking and providing health care as
advised (in the household, community and
health facility);
4. Re-integrating of survivors back into the
community and to minimizing stigma;
5. Identifying and managing misinformation
and rumours.
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Ten things to know
1. Disease outbreaks affect the social
fabric of communities. A community is a
social network, and infectious diseases
outbreaks are deeply linked to the social
life, the structure of society and people’s
interactions. They spread through personal
and social contacts and links at home
or during professional and recreational
activities.
2. Communities are the main actors in
preventing, identifying, responding and
recovering from the physical, psychological,
social and economic impacts of epidemics.
Communities are not passive subjects of
interventions.
79. 3. Epidemics are by nature rapidly evolving.
The time pressure is particularly challenging
for community engagement. The beginning
of the outbreak is a crucial time to build the
necessary trust with the population who can
break the transmission cycle. Any outbreak
response that builds on existing and trusted
community engagement systems and work
with trusted individuals and interlocutors
are more likely to succeed.
4. Community understanding of diseases and
their spread is complex, context-dependent
and culturally mediated. Thus, a one-size-
fits-all approach is neither desirable nor
effective.
5. Communities are multi-layered, and power
dynamics exist between individuals, groups
and networks. Social scientists can help
analyse these dynamics and work with
specialists in health education, health
promotion and local communities. There
are simple tools that can assess relevant
perceptions and beliefs for any outbreaks
response. Together they can design the
messages and interventions necessary
to raise awareness, and adapt or change
behaviours to meet the demands of a new
infection. Embedding social scientists in
response teams will also help to monitor
how people adapt public health measures
to different social contexts, and whether
these are implemented in a way that
respects social and cultural systems.
80. 6. Community engagement helps to
strengthen and ensure resilience to future
outbreaks: when people have already
learned how to implement their own
solutions, they will be better able to deal
with the next outbreak.
7. The approach and messaging directed
towards each community has to evolve
with the epidemic and incorporate new
messages and communication methods
as it unfolds. These messages must
also proactively detect misinformation
and rumours. Effective community
engagement limits the opportunities for
misunderstandings and the proliferation of
rumours, and it mitigates the spread of fear
and anxiety.
8. Identify people that the community
trusts and build relationships with them.
Involve them in decision-making to
ensure interventions are collaborative,
contextually appropriate and that
communication is community-owned.
9. Two-way communication should be
achieved through the most socially-
acceptable and effective channels.
Messages must be “translated” into local
language, local context and to match
the education levels and preferences
(e.g. visual, written or oral cultures) of the
target population. All communication
81. with communities should be transparent,
timely, easy-to-understand, acknowledge
uncertainty, address affected populations,
link to self-efficacy, and be disseminated
using multiple platforms, methods and
channels.
10. Disease creates fear which often leads
to practices that further amplify the
epidemic. These can be both individual
and collective. They can relate to the
transmission of the disease, or the stigma,
and extreme stress on the ties that bind
communities.
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Ensuring effective community
engagement
To ensure effective community engagement:
3 elements are needed for communities and
for field responders.
For communities:
• Knowledge: communities must know what
the disease is, how it is transmitted, and
how to protect against it (social mobilisation
messages);
• Trust: it is the most important determinant
to ensuring communities heed public
82. health advice. Communities must be
consulted, engaged, and whenever possible
participate in identifying and impleme nting
response measures that communities and
responders want above all to treat patients
and stop the epidemic;
• Self-efficacy: communities must be able to
implement control measures (e.g. access
to soap and water, to gloves, to waste
management services, to transportation, to
safe burial teams, etc.).
For field responders:
• Understand: Field responders need to
understand the local perceptions of the
disease and of the response measures;
• Listen: Field responders need to listen to
communities’ fears and beliefs and adapt
their own behaviours accordingly;
• Support: Field responders need to support
communities’ participation, ownership and
resilience.
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FOCUS 2
Risk communication – a life-saving
action in public health emergencies
83. The essence of risk communication
Risk communication is one of the key pillars of
response to outbreaks. It refers to the real-time
exchange of information, advice and opinions
between health experts or officials and people
who face a threat (hazard) to their survival,
health or economic or social well-being. Its
ultimate goal is that everyone at risk is able to
take informed decisions to mitigate the effects
a disease outbreak and take protective and
preventive action.
Effective risk communication not only saves
lives and reduces illness (by informing people
on how to protect their health), it also enables
countries and communities to preserve their
social, economic and political stability in the
face of emergencies.
For these reasons, risk communication is one
of the core capacities that all countries have
agreed to develop in order to prevent the
international spread of disease and other
dangers as required under the International
Health Regulations (2005).
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21st century aspects change and
complicate risk communication
There has been a paradigm shift from
84. telling people what to do (message-based
communication) to systematically listening
to those affected, mainly due to new
communication and media technologies and
the way practices have evolved in the 21st
century. The three big changes here are:
1. Experts and authorities are less trusted;
2. People now seek health advice mostly on
public on-line sources, and their trusted
social networks;
3. News media now function all day, every
day. In addition, there is an increase of
citizenship journalism and social media,
as well as the rise of opinion versus well-
sourced and referenced stories.
In disease outbreaks and epidemics, life-saving
decisions need to be made rapidly and actions
must follow promptly, with the support of an
informed public. Epidemics are unpredictable
and alarming events that generate great
anxiety in the general public, which can lead
to extreme behaviours. Epidemics and the way
they are managed have a high political profile
and capture the news media’s attention quickly
leading to intense media interest (at national
and international levels).
Furthermore, emergency and outbreak
communications now take place in a variety of
contexts:
85. • In a shifting complex, crowded environment:
information is incomplete and many
different actors are exchanging public health
information and competing for authority.
• Where communications are diverse: these
include public communication, supporting
national governments in risk communication,
strategic communication, communication
with affected communities and response
personnel, media relations, knowledge
transfer, message development, partner
communication, internal communication and
health promotion functions, etc.
• Where risk communication is an under-
resourced priority with a lack of investment
in skills, resources and expertise at country
level.
• Where there is an increased public demand
for participation in policy-making and for
self-determination.
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Making it effective
• Risk communication only works when there
is communication based on trust between
those who know (experts), those in charge
(authorities or response teams) and those
affected (communities). Without trust,
86. people are unlikely to follow the advice given.
Listening to and understanding peoples’
beliefs, concerns and perceptions is just as
important as providing them with facts and
advice. Explaining honestly what is known
and admitting what is uncertain is essential.
Effective risk communication thus depends
on the credibility of those giving advice; their
expressions of caring and empathy; and their
ability to identify with people at risk.
• Perception is key:
- Experts and affected communities may
not view the same infectious hazard – e.g.
a disease outbreak – the same way. While
experts depend on risk analysis based on
biomedical and epidemiological data,
affected communities use more sub-
conscious pathways to define risk;
- People’s perception of risk can be affected
by their beliefs, culture, education,
political viewpoints, social norms and prior
experience amongst others;
- There are tried and trusted social science
methods and approaches which can be
used in epidemics to gauge perceptions.
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Ten things to know and do
87. 1. Build trust
• People must trust those responsible for
managing the outbreak and for issuing
information about it. Public confidence
that a government or agency is acting first
and foremost to safeguard their health will
influence compliance with recommended
control measures, and thus hasten outbreak
containment.
• Accountability is key: communicators
must demonstrate that they and outbreak
managers are accountable for what they say,
promise, and do.
• Evidence shows that to build trust, risk
communication interventions should link
to functioning and accessible services, be
transparent, timely, easy-to-understand,
acknowledge uncertainty, address affected
populations, link to self-efficacy and be
disseminated using multiple platforms,
methods and channels.
• The building blocks of trust include:
- Being perceived as experts with credibility
by providing expert advice that is correct
and accurate and being consistent with other
trusted agencies and entities;
- Being perceived as having a good character
by telling the truth and not omitting important
88. information, and acting on promises;
- Identifying with the affected population as
sharing the same concerns and fate;
- Exhibiting good will through empathy and
caring in messages and their delivery.
2. Communicate uncertainty proactively
• Communication by authorities to the public
should include explicit information about
uncertainties associated with risks, events
and interventions and indicate what is known
and not known at a given time.
• Announce the event as early as possible, even
when the information is incomplete. This will
establish you as the leader to communicate
risk; it will build trust in you and the response;
it will help enable changes in practice and
behaviors to bring the outbreak under
control; and it will minimize misinformation
and rumours.
• A good template to communicate uncertainty
is as follows:
- State what is known, what is unknown, and
what you/your institution is doing about the
issue;
- Communicate early, be first to announce
the event if possible, communicate often,
communicate regularly;
89. - Provide information on the risk/danger; but
supplement it with some advice on how
people can protect themselves;
- Speak as a human being, using empathy
appropriately;
- Do not over-reassure.
3. Engage communities
• Identify people that the community trusts
and build relationships with them and
involve them in decision-making to ensure
interventions are collaborative, contextually
appropriate and that communication is
community-owned.
• Community engagement is one important
start for communicating risk and facilitating
changes in behaviours and practices (see
Focus 1, page 38).
4. Message well
• According to the latest evidence, risk should
not be explained in technical terms as this
is not helpful for promoting risk mitigation
behaviours. Consistent messages should
come from different information sources
and emerge early in the outbreak. Messages
should promote specific actions people can
realistically take to protect their health.
5. Establish and use listening and feedback
systems
90. • Use multiple means (surveys, focus group
discussions, community walk-throughs,
key informants, feedback from front-line
responders, partners’ and stakeholders’
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feedback, social media, etc.) to listen to the
public and affected communities.
• Use these to understand what concerns
people regarding the outbreak or the
measures we are asking them to adopt.
• Use these systems to test messaging
and materials developed to support risk
communication.
6. Use social media as appropriate
• Social media should be used to
engage the public, facilitate peer-to-
peer communication, create situational
awareness, monitor and respond to rumours,
public reactions and concerns during an
emergency, and to facilitate local level
responses.
• Social media and traditional media should be
part of an integrated strategy with other forms
of communication to achieve convergence
91. of verified, accurate information.
7. Risk communication operations requires
resources
• Risk communication in epidemics is a massive
operational undertaking and requires
people, logistics, material and funds.
• Different types of expertise in many areas
are required: media communications, social
media, spokespersons, social mobilization,
health promotion, community engagement,
behavioral change communication;
stakeholder communication, communication
related to travel and trade, social science
methods, etc.
8. Treat Emergency risk communication as a
strategic role, not an add-on
• Emergency risk communication should be
a designated strategic role in global and
national emergency preparedness and
response leadership teams.
• The International Health Regulations (2005)
require all Member States to build national
capacity to communicate risk in two domains:
- Systems capacities;
- People capacities.
• The Joint External Evaluation (JEE)
process championed by the Global Health
92. Security Agenda measures national risk
communication capacity in six domains:
- National strategies, policies and plan;
- Coordination;
- Stakeholder communication;
- Public communication (using mass media
approaches);
- Communicating and engaging with
communities;
- Dynamic listening (to misinformation, fears,
concerns) and rumour management.
9. Establish coordination and information
systems
• Develop and build on agency and
organizational networks across geographic,
disciplinary and, where appropriate, national
boundaries.
• Tailor information and communication
systems to the needs of users and involve
local stakeholders to guarantee the flow of
information across sectors.
10. Build capacity for the next emergency
• Preparation and training of personnel for
emergency risk communication should
be organized regularly and focus on
93. coordination across agencies.
• Emergency risk communication requires a
defined and sustained budget which should
be a part of core budgeting for emergency
preparedness and response.
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Other factors to remember
While there is an increasing body of
evidence as to what constitutes effective risk
communication, every outbreak is unique.
Therefore risk communication must be
adapted to:
• The infectious hazard (its severity, lethality,
modes of transmission, how it can be
diagnosed, treated or managed);
• The geography of the outbreak: contained or
widely distributed; national or international
spread; affecting certain vulnerable
communities or the general population;
in a remote forgotten village or major city;
affecting to poor or affecting travel and
trade;
• The levels of trust that exit between the
affected or at-risk populations and their
authorities and experts; or the response
teams;
94. • People’s underlying beliefs, cultures,
traditions, values and practices;
• Education, levels of awareness, access to
understandable information; and trusted
channels of communication;
• Self-efficacy: do communities have the
ability, resources and environment to follow
health advice?
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FOCUS 3
Treating patients and protecting
the health workforce
Advances in medicine: antibiotics,
antivirals, vaccines and new
treatments
With the remarkable progress in medicine and
related technologies, briefly mentioned at the
beginning of this publication, many infectious
diseases can now be prevented and treated.
This is the result of a public health revolution
that began in the 1940s with the discovery
of antibiotics for bacterial diseases, and
expanded with improvements in their safety,
efficacy and acceptability.
95. Similarly, the development of vaccines,
particularly for infants and young children, has
given global protection against a number of
childhood killers. For example, WHO estimates
that there is now 86% global coverage of
the combined diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
vaccine for babies1. In recent decades,
hundreds of millions of children all over the
world have grown up free of the risk of deadly
and disabling diseases. Adults have benefited
likewise, with protection against a wide range
of infections that can explode into epidemics
– cholera, influenza and yellow fever, for
example. For many deadly diseases, there are
vaccines that ideally should be administrated
in routine, large-scale immunization to prevent
the occurrence of the disease. Some vaccines
can also be used during a reactive campaign
when there is an epidemic in which the
immunity of the population is not high enough.
The public health revolution continued towards
the end of the 20th century with the discovery
of antivirals, such as that used against HIV.
Meanwhile, there have also been great
strides forward in the fields of diagnostics and
treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies,
that are also becoming more widely available
but the price of some of them is still very
high and they are not yet available for mass
administration.
Such advances – and the early problems that
followed them – including a degree of public
96. health complacency, and the emergence
of antibiotic resistance - have completely
changed the way infectious diseases are
confronted today.
1 WHO data, 2016.
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Treating patients with supportive
care
But whether the focus is on antibiotics,
antivirals, vaccines or the whole armoury of
other treatments, the vital, universal fact is
that they can only be beneficial when they
are administered by skilled, qualified and
dedicated health personnel, all across the
spectrum of care. When, for example, no
specific treatment is available for a given
disease, adequate clinical management
can still protect and save lives. This has
been shown by a dramatic reduction in
deaths from Ebola in West Africa in 2014
– from 75% to 33% mortality, achieved
through the provision of better supportive
care for patients.
Protecting frontline responders
The role of the health workforce should never
be underestimated nor taken for granted.
In general, much of their day-to-day work is
97. mundane and routine, providing tried-and-
tested care and treatment for familiar illnesses,
disabilities and injuries.
But when an epidemic strikes, they make
a vital difference at all levels, whether as
community health workers and volunteers,
midwives, nurses, or doctors. With little or no
warning, they are transformed into frontline
responders, thrust into immediate contact with
infected communities and individuals. Family
members, too, take on the role of caring for
their relatives at home, often linking up with
health staff in clinics, hospitals and emergency
centres.
This transformation is double-edged and
dangerous for frontline responders. First, their
immediate priorities are to prevent the spread
of an epidemic, protect those people who
are most at risk, and to care by all possible
means for those who are already infected. The
related dangers are obvious: health workers
are putting themselves at risk. They find
themselves in the most dangerous place at the
most dangerous time.
Yet, because their job is to care for the sick
and injured, health care workers are often
viewed as “immune” to injury or illness. Their
patients come first. However, human-to-
human transmission is a major factor in many
infectious diseases that cause epidemics.
Patients are highly contagious and can spread
the disease at home, at work, in public spaces,
98. but also in hospitals.
Thus, it is essential to protect them from
infection – both for their own safety and for the
wider protection of the affected community. It
is here that emergency planning, preparation,
training and coordination are so essential, as
is the urgent provision of practical safeguards,
especially the necessary personal protective
equipment and the knowledge of how to use
it properly.
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Confronting the human resources
crisis
These measures may seem obvious, but the
role of frontline responders is frequently
shackled by a major disadvantage: there are
not nearly enough of them. This unpalatable
truth applies to the health workforce in
general. It is a global problem, but it is most
acute in the poorest countries with weakest
health systems, where epidemics are most
likely to erupt.
Protecting the occupational health of health
workers is critical to have an adequate
workforce of trained and healthy health
personnel. This is nowhere more true than at
the heart of an infectious disease epidemic.
99. Around the world, health care facilities employ
over 59 million workers2. Yet at the same
time, there is a chronic shortage of them in
more than 50 countries. This crisis in human
resources for health has persisted for decades,
despite numerous attempts to tackle it, but
recent actions show notable progress.
It is not just a matter of numbers. While there
has long been an exclusive focus on how many
there are, against how many are needed,
there is growing public health agreement on
according equal importance to accessibility,
acceptability, quality and performance in
addition to availability.
These four factors are inter-related and inter-
dependent. The absence or inadequacy of any
one of them undermines all the others. Without
sufficient availability, accessibility to health
workers cannot be guaranteed. If they are
available and accessible, without acceptability,
the health services may not be used. When the
quality of the health workforce is inadequate,
improvements in health outcomes will not be
satisfactory.
Elaboration of these complex issues at length
goes beyond the scope of this handbook. But
it is important that they are taken into account
in the context of infectious disease prevention,
treatment and control. Indeed, they lead
to recognition that protecting health care
workers has the added benefit to contributing
to quality patient care and health system
strengthening.
100. If it is accepted that health begins with health
workers, their empowerment is necessary
on a general basis. Their voice, rights and
responsibilities must play a central role in
developing and implementing solid policies
and strategies towards universal health
coverage. This applies to the context of
epidemic disease control as much as it
does to other health issues more widely.
The engagement of communities during
epidemics, including health workforce
community, needs to be at the center of the
epidemic response.
For more information about protecting the
health workforce:
WHO global health workforce alliance
website
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/ 2 WHO data:
http://www.who.int/occupational_
health/topics/hcworkers/en/
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http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/
http://www.who.int/occupational_health/topics/hcworkers/en/
http://www.who.int/occupational_health/topics/hcworkers/en/
DISEASE SPECIFIC SUPPORTIVEMAJOR MODE OF
TRANSMISSION
Clinical management
110. 4
4 4
6
7
8
6 Oral and intramuscular/subcutaneous polio vaccines; 7
Intramuscular and scarification vaccines; 8
Intramuscular/subcutaneous vaccines.
Clinical management
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http://www.who.int/csr/disease/meningococcal/en/
http://www.who.int/topics/coronavirus_infections/en/
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/fac tsheets/fs161/en/
http://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/measles/en/
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/plague/en/
http://www.who.int/topics/poliomyelitis/en/
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/riftvalleyfev/en/
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/en/
http://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/typhoid/en/
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs354/en/
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/
http://www.who.int/topics/zika/en/
http://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/measles/en/
111. PART II
10 KEY FACTS ABOUT 15 DEADLY DISEASES
Be in the know
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
LASSA FEVER
CRIMEAN-CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER (CCHF)
YELLOW FEVER
ZIKA
CHIKUNGUNYA
AVIAN AND OTHER ZOONOTIC INFLUENZA
SEASONAL INFLUENZA
PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (MERS)
CHOLERA
MONKEYPOX
PLAGUE
LEPTOSPIROSIS
MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
112. 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Ebola virus disease
1. Ebola virus disease transmits from person to person
through close contact
2. Health care workers, mourners and family members are the
most at risk to
get infected
3. At-risk persons should be informed about Infection
Prevention and Control
(IPC) measures and be provided with appropriate personal
protective
equipment
4. Community engagement, active case finding, contact
tracing, laboratory
support, and safe and dignified burials are key to control
outbreaks
5. Early supportive care improves survival
6. Ebola is difficult to distinguish from other diseases with
haemorrhage
presentation
7. The Ebola virus can persist in people recovering from the
disease for several
months
8. Ebola survivors may suffer from stigma and sequelae
113. 9. There are ongoing researches for vaccines, diagnostics and
treatments
10. Ebola is a viral haemorrhagic fever that occurs mostly in
rural and remote
areas of Africa
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Ebola virus disease response tips
Coordinating responders
• Engage with partners involved in the
response (community engagement,
surveillance, laboratory, case management
and IPC)
• Engage with religious and community
leaders
Communicating risk
• Encourage health authorities to:
- Implement active case finding and contact
tracing
- Ensure protection of health care workers
through IPC measures
- Communicate early and frequently
• Key messages are:
- Ebola is transmitted through contact with body
114. fluids of infected animals and humans
- Dead bodies of patients are contagious
- Apply IPC measures when in contact with sick
or dead patients and animals
- People are not infectious if they do not show
symptoms
- People with symptoms should seek medical
advice as supportive treatment increases
chances of survival
Health Information
• Ensure early laboratory confirmation of
suspected cases
• Notify cases to WHO, under the IHR (2005)
Health Interventions
• Community engagement and health
promotion
• Case management and IPC:
- Isolation of cases
- Early supportive treatment
- Protect health care workers
• Surveillance, contact finding and contact
tracing
• Safe and dignified burials
• Vaccination under expanded access (rVSV-
115. ZEBOV vaccine for Zaire Ebola virus)
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Ebola virus disease transmits from
person to person through close
contact
• Incubation period ranges from 2 to 21
days.
• Humans are not infectious as long as
they do not develop symptoms. During
the course of the disease, they remain
infectious as long as their blood contains
the virus.
• Ebola is first introduced into the human
population through close contact with the
blood, secretions, organs or other body
fluids of infected animals such as fruit
bats, chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys,
forest antelopes and porcupines found ill
or dead, often in the rainforest.
• Ebola then spreads through human-
to-human transmission via direct
contact (through broken skin or mucous
membranes) with the blood, secretions,
organs or other body fluids of infected
people.
- Infection can also occur if the broken skin
116. or the mucous membranes of a healthy
person comes into contact with items or
environments contaminated with body
fluids from an infected person. These may
include soiled clothing, bed linen, gloves,
and protective equipment;
- Medical waste, such as used syringes,
should be disposed carefully, as they are
a source of health care workers infection.
• Ebola virus disease has not been reported
to be transmitted by aerosols. It is not
airborne.
Health care workers, mourners
and family members are the most
at risk to get infected
Population at high-risk of being infected
include:
• Health care workers if Infection Prevention
and Control (IPC) measures are not in
place or not well followed while caring for
patients.
• Mourners, as burial ceremonies involve
direct contact with the body or body fluids
of the deceased (washing, touching…)
because levels of Ebola virus remain high
after death.
• Family members or others in close
contact with infected people and caring
for them in contact with body fluids or
contaminated items.