HLT 605 Grand Canyon Week 8 Assignment

Community Prevention

Review your state public health department and environmental quality departments online to identify vector-related diseases affecting your community.

In a report format of 1,250-1,500 words, address the following:

1. Describe the health concerns of the community.
2. Identify current environmental risk assessment methods which apply to public health issues.
3. Suggest a modifier or new prevention or intervention program based on your research.
4. Create a sample program budget.
5. Complete a SWOT analysis of the proposed program.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

Community Disease Prevention

Introduction

A community disease prevention plan can help ensure the health of your employees and customers.

Community Disease Prevention

Prevention is the best medicine. It’s also the most cost-efficient way to avoid disease and save lives.

The CDC estimates that each year, there are more than 100 million cases of preventable diseases in the United States alone—and these numbers are rising as our population grows older and becomes more prone to chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease. As a result, we need more people working toward prevention if we want our health care system to remain sustainable in a rapidly changing world where demand for services continues rising at an exponential rate (think: aging baby boomers).

Health Screenings

Blood Pressure

• Blood pressure is a measurement of the force exerted by blood against the walls of a blood vessel. It’s measured using a cuff that you place around your upper arm and then attach to an instrument that measures your pressure.

• Learn more about blood pressure in this article from Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinicproceedingsonline.org/article/S0024-6347(15)00048-4/fulltext

Quarantine

Quarantine is the act of separating and restricting the movement of people who are ill with a communicable disease in order to prevent the spread of infection. It can also be used as a preventive measure, preventing an outbreak by isolating those who might be carriers or potential carriers.

While quarantine may sound like it’s something you’d do to avoid catching an illness yourself, this isn’t really true—it’s actually used more often when there is no cure available for whatever it is causing illness. For example, if your child has chickenpox (varicella), they’ll need to stay away from other children until they’ve all had their vaccinations; this way everyone gets vaccinated without exposing anyone else to chickenpox!

In most cases where quarantine is implemented at schools or places of employment during outbreaks because staff members have been exposed by someone already sick with something contagious like influenza A virus strains H5N1 bird flu virus type A/H5N1 (A/H5N1) avian influenza subtype H7N3 human influenza virus subtype H7N3 human seasonal flu subtype A(H1N1)pdm09 poliovirus types 1-4 virion types 4

Medication Management

Medication management is the process by which a patient receives, stores, and administers medications. Medication reconciliation is the process of ensuring that all medications have been prescribed to the patient and administered as directed by their physician or other healthcare provider. Medication dispensing involves delivering prescriptions to patients at home or in hospitals and clinics; it also includes tracking how many doses of each drug were given and when they were taken so that doctors can be alerted if there are any problems with adherence to treatment plans.

Medication storage refers specifically to storing unused medications on site while they’re still effective enough for use; this allows you to avoid waste which can cause problems when disposing old medicines safely away from children or pets who might accidentally ingest them (which happens more often than we’d like).

Billing/Finance

Billing/Finance is the process of recording charges for services provided by a healthcare provider. It can be broken down into two main areas: billing and finance, which are both necessary to running a medical practice.

Billing is the process of recording charges for services provided by a healthcare provider. This includes everything from patient visits to lab tests, x-rays and surgeries performed at your office or facility. The amount you charge each patient will depend on their health insurance carrier (if any) as well as their deductible level ($500-$1000). You can also bill Medicare patients separately from private payers if they have higher deductibles than self-pay patients do ($1000-$1500).

Conclusion

We hope this has been a helpful introduction to community disease prevention. There are many different ways to approach this topic, but the goal should always be to protect yourself and those around you from harm. It’s not easy, but it can be done!