BMS1042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Relative Risk, Fishing Expedition, Portable Computer
15 Aug 2018
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Ability to describe barriers to care and outbreak control. To identify the preventive steps and strategies taken in an outbreak investigation. Outbreak: an outbreak or epidemic exists when there are more cases than expected of a particular disease among a specific group of people, and/or in a given area, over a particular period of time. May be smaller number of cases, area or population. Largest ebola outbreak in history; first in west africa. August 8, 2015 who declared that the current ebola outbreak is a public health. Spread through direct contact with the blood or body fluids. Barriers to care and outbreak control in west africa. Reluctance individuals to present or communities identify ill persons. Risk of an outbreak in australia is very low. Border protecting systems and infection control mechanisms in hospitals. Federal government, state governments, hospitals guidelines for handling potentially infected persons. New appearance of an infectious agent (or toxic material) from environment or fron an infected source.
