Infectious disease prevention and management in specialised settings.

Running Head: Infectious Disease Prevention and Management
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Infectious Disease Prevention and Management
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Title: Infectious Disease prevention and Management
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Date: 6/10/2020
Author Note
The current report is presented as part of the requirements to complete the course work.
Contents
3Introduction
3Sydney and Auckland environment relevant to the infectious disease
4Infrastructure relevant the infection control and management
4Etiology and Epidemiology of infectious diseases in Australian and New Zealand
4Influenza:
4Swine flu
5HPV:
5TB:
5HIV/AIDS
5Measles
6Infectitious disease control system capacity and the critical control points
7Role of transport access in affecting the risk of spread of infectious disease transmission
8References
Introduction
The current context is the disease prevention and management on the occasion of onset of 2023 women’s world cup in Australia and New Zealand. For participation in the programme, there will be influx of people from all over the world, which comprises athletes, coaches, spectators, tourists and other national and international support staff. Hence this influx of high population will severely strain the local public facilities adding to the risk of the public health(Goldstein et al.,2017). In this context, as a health advisor for the current programme, it is expected to provide insights into the infectious disease prevention and management advice based on the prospective risks and the possible scenarios that can occur during the world cup programme duration. The following part of the discussion consists of the same
Sydney and Auckland environment relevant to the infectious disease
Both, Australia and New Zealand do have the past record of the infectious diseases and they have provided considerable stress over the local infrastructure for management and curbing the same. For instance, some of the diseases in the region include TB, meningococcal disease, septicaemia, viral hepatitis, diphtheria, malaria, Scarlet fever, STDs, Polio, Measles as well as influenza and course colds were seen in the past in this region. Infectious disease control is provided with considerable significance in Australia since a long time. Common Wealth Department of Health is established in Australia in 1921. However robust health emergency preparedness operations were established year after year and they reached to the current level of high maturity and preparedness by 2004-05, as per the budget allocations of $40.5 million and more the national health security and response capability of the nation is increased to face the challenge of the terrorist attack or even national health emergency requirements. In the past Australia has a record of the serious spread of HPN1 disease, Avian Flu and so forth. Sydney is a port city and historically has influx of foreigners through the port routes. During the times of white settlement, the vulnerability to the epidemics is too high, till the times of occultation and vaccination developments, i.e., till the World War II, infectious disease spread is normal and part of life in Sydney. Small pox epidemic is supposed to be due to the problems of the infection from other foreigners entered Sydney during the late nineteenth century(Higggins and Weinstock,2017). Measles and scarlet fever followed the same with huge death toll mostly children. Small pox is attributed to the Chinese origins and Chinese merchants are assumed to be the cause of the spread of the disease. Spanish Influenza in the aftermath of world war infected Sydney like any other place in the world. AIDS in the later part of 20th century is recent times infection of mass scale. Auckland environmental and geo-political conditions are more or less same like Sydney; here also the massive influx of foreigners is mainly responsible for the spread of infectious diseases in the past. For instance, Small pox outbreak in Auckland is traced to the foreign ship SS Nebraska in 1872. Contagious diseases, typhoid, measles, rubella etc in Newzealand and Auckland in particular are tracked to infections from the foreign influx, several times in the past history. Recent record of the outbreaks includes meningococcal A, HPV etc. To comprehend, more or less both Auckland and Sydney contain similar environments for the infection spread. More significant is the fact that the infections are mostly from foreign origin and in most of the infectious disease cases in the past, people from outside are proven to be carriers of the disease. However both New Zealand and Australia developed competency on national scale to face the challenge of the spread of the disease and are very much effective in controlling the disease (Ladner et al., 2019).
Infrastructure relevant the infection control and management
Common wealth government is directly involving in the infection disease control in Australia, leaving aside very...