Assignment: NSG 604 Module V: Discussion 1
Assignment: NSG 604 Module V: Discussion 1
Malaria is the selected notifiable disease topic for the assignment. Passive surveillance provided information about malaria. Passive surveillance usually gathers data about a disease from all potential reporting healthcare workers. Health authorities do not stimulate reporting by reminding healthcare providers to report the disease or provide feedback to individual health workers (Rios-Zertuche et al., 2021). Passive surveillance is the most common type for communicable diseases like Malaria. The surveillance data on Malaria was obtained from case investigations carried out by local and state health departments.
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The Malaria reports are conveyed to the CDC through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), the National Malaria Surveillance System (NMSS), or direct CDC consultations. The CDC reference laboratories offer diagnostic assistance and carry out antimalarial drug resistance marker testing on blood samples presented by healthcare workers and local and state health departments (Mace et al., 2021). Data is integrated from NMSS and NNDSS, CDC clinical consultations, and CDC reference laboratory reports. The surveillance data revealed that 56% of all Malaria cases were among individuals who had traveled from West Africa (Mace et al., 2021). In addition to inadequate implementation of prevention measures by travelers, frequent international travel contributed to the highest number of imported malaria cases detected in the U.S. in the last four decades.
The surveillance information helped in planning the proposed intervention. I identified that the ideal way to prevent malaria is taking chemoprophylaxis medication during travel to a malaria-endemic country. Besides, I identified that adhering to the recommended malaria prevention measures among U.S. travelers can lower the number of imported cases (Mace et al., 2021). Since most travelers may not understand the risk that malaria poses to their health, their families, and the community, healthcare providers should incorporate health education on malaria risk to encourage travelers to adhere to chemoprophylaxis.
References
Mace, K. E., Lucchi, N. W., & Tan, K. R. (2021). Malaria Surveillance—United States, 2017. MMWR Surveillance Summaries, 70(2), 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7002a1
Rios-Zertuche, D., Carter, K. H., Harris, K. P., Thom, M., Zúñiga-Brenes, M. P., Bernal-Lara, P., González-Marmol, Á., Johanns, C. K., Hernández, B., Palmisano, E., Cogen, R., Naik, P., El Bcheraoui, C., Smith, D. L., Mokdad, A. H., & Iriarte, E. (2021). Performance of passive case detection for malaria surveillance: results from nine countries in Mesoamerica and the Dominican Republic. Malaria journal, 20(1), 208. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03645-x
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Share with the class the notifiable disease topic you are presenting in Assignment #1. Using what you learned in the CDC Introduction to Public Health Surveillance course, discuss what kinds of surveillance information you found, and where you found it. How did this information guide planning the intervention you developed for your paper?
Attach your certificate of completion to the discussion post.
When responding to your classmates, offer any suggestions you have regarding their intervention or other ideas you have.
Post your initial response by Tuesday at 11:59 PM EST. Respond to two students by Saturday at 11:59 PM EST. The initial discussion post and discussion responses occur on three different calendar days of each electronic week. All responses should be a minimum of 300 words, scholarly written, APA formatted (with some exceptions due to limitations in the D2L editor), and referenced. A minimum of 2 references are required (other than the course textbook). These are not the complete guidelines for participating in discussions. Please refer to the Grading Rubric for Online Discussion found in the Course Resources module.