strategy
Preventing epidemics
Synonyms:
Minimizing impact of epidemics Context:
Humans increase the chance new viruses will emerge in us by simply being in the right place at the right time. We do this by travelling into once isolated forests, expanding our desire for exotic tastes and flavours, trading in live animals, through cultural practices that expose us to rare pathogens and by incompletely or incorrectly treating infections.
Implementation:
The South Pacific Commission (SPC) provides epidemiological assistance to some 22 island nations. In 1993, for instance, an SPC epidemiologist conducted a typhoid fever outbreak investigation in Western Samoa and on-the-job training of national counterparts in outbreak investigation and control.
In 1993, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies provided medicines, hospital tents and strengthened public information campaigns after a total of 62,624 cases and 546 deaths were reported a four month period.
Broader:
Managing crises Constrained by:
Encouraging epidemics Facilitates:
Treating plant diseaseProtecting human healthReducing cost of animal disease controlTreating infectious and parasitic diseasesPreparing for realities of drug-resistant microbes Facilitated by:
Studying bacterial diseaseStudying pathogenic virusesControlling disease vectorsStudying human disease vectorsIncreasing resistance to diseaseIdentifying carriers of animal diseasesStudying infectious and parasitic diseasesIsolating agents carrying infectious diseasesUsing vaccines to prevent communicable diseasesReducing incidence of infectious and parasitic diseasesDeveloping human resources to control communicable diseasesDeveloping human resources to meet primary health care needsProviding intersectoral training on prevention and control of communicable diseases Problems:
Animal diseasesBacterial disease
Epidemics
Human disease and disability
Human immunodeficiency virus infection
Inadequate disinfection measures for humans during animal disease outbreaks
Infectious diseases in animals
Infectious diseases
Plant diseases
Uncontrolled plant diseases
Viral diseases
Values:
Epidemic Subjects:
Societal Problems → EpidemicsSocietal Problems → Prevention
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
