Posted: October 24th, 2022

Week 3 & 4: Disease Prevention

Week 3 & 4: Disease Prevention
*Note that additional points may be subtracted from your final DB grade if consistent grammatical errors are present (5 points) in the posts and/or if no in-text citations and references are utilized to support your posts from the evidence: literature and professional websites (5 points). In total, there can be a 10-point reduction.*
Week 3: Initial Post –include APA in-text citations and full references at the end.
Please go to DB #1 WiKi to sign-up for one of the diseases/conditions; only one group member can select each disease/condition.
As a future advanced practitioner, it is important that you understand the epidemiological impact of public health-related diseases or conditions within the community you work in or the populations you serve; and what can be done to prevent the development of the disease/condition altogether.
Initial Post Criteria: In your discussion assignment please provide the following information about the selected disease/condition (70 points).
Briefly describe the medical condition/disease (15 points) :
Define the disease/condition information on the chosen disease/condition (70 points).
(15 points): Briefly define the medical condition/disease:
Define the illness/condition
What is the method of acquisition or transmission?
Surveillance methods: Determine whether state or national surveillance is carried out; if so, give the case definition used for surveillance (which may differ from a medical diagnosis); and indicate which institutions carry out surveillance and where data can be accessible (if no surveillance is conducted, state this).
How is it acquired or transmitted?
Methods of surveillance: determine if any state or national surveillance is conducted; if so include the case definition used for surveillance (this may be different from a medical diagnosis) and list what organizations conduct surveillance and where data can be found (if no surveillance is conducted, state this).
Descriptive epidemiology – provide applicable statistics you find by (30 points):
Person – i.e., age, gender, race/ethnicity, behavioral risk factors
Place – i.e., geographical factors: county, state, U.S., global (provide at least 2 comparable levels, such as county and state, state and national, or national and global)
Time – seasonal, exposure to disease (is there an incubation period), or rates over time
Prevention (25 points):
a, Provide interventions to prevent the development of the condition/disease (primary prevention). Please include any immunization schedule and/or pre – post-exposure prophylaxis guidelines if applicable.
b,Provide any screening methods (if applicable) that can be used for early diagnosis (secondary prevention). Do not include general medical treatment interventions unless they are designed to be given early to prevent pathological changes once serologically positive.