On-line Assessment Task One Vector-borne disease This is an assessment task and contributes to your final grade. Use no more than 100 words (about 2 to 3 short paragraphs) to complete this task....

On-line Assessment Task One Vector-borne disease This is an assessment task and contributes to your final grade. Use no more than 100 words (about 2 to 3 short paragraphs) to complete this task. Explain, either your response to the task or a reply to another student’s response. Please be respectful of the stated word limits for the on-line tasks. Do not ignore the limit! More is not better. It is thoughtless and unprofessional to write a long stream of disorganised thoughts. The on-line post is a time to demonstrate excellent writing skills, to be succinct, structured and to provide a synthesis of the ideas. If you need to write a lot to think your answer through, please do so in a separate space not on the discussion forum. Remember to post this on-line. On-line—Question 1: Select one of the following vector-borne disease to examine in greater detail:- malaria, dengue, Tick-borne encephalitis; Ross River Virus; Barmah Forest Virus disease and; Murray Valley Encephalitis. NB. Each person in your discussion group should work through a different disease. Please do not repeat, if the disease has already been taken move on to question two. (a) Current knowledge of impact of climate on the selected vector-borne disease (b) Any evidence of impact from climate change in recent past? (c) Projections of impact of climate change on vector-borne disease in the future? On-line—Question 2: For the students who missed out on question one! Describe and discuss the change in relative and absolute risks for one of the selected vector-borne disease? On-line Assessment Task Two Managing infectious disease This is an assessment task and contributes to your final grade. Use no more than 100 words (about 2 to 3 short paragraphs) to complete this task. Explain, either your response to the task or a reply to another student’s response. Please be respectful of the stated word limits for the on-line tasks. Do not ignore the limit! More is not better. It is thoughtless and unprofessional to write a long stream of disorganised thoughts. The on-line post is a time to demonstrate excellent writing skills, to be succinct, structured and to provide a synthesis of the ideas. If you need to write a lot to think your answer through, please do so in a separate space not on the discussion forum. Remember to post this on-line. On-line—Question 1: Considering the wide spectrum of health impacts predicted due to climate change; what priority should be given to addressing the changes in infectious diseases? Why? Why not? [50 words] On-line—Question 2: Given the long established traditions of public health and infectious diseases (e.g., John Snow; eradication of small pox) is this area that will essentially manage “itself” within the existing infrastructures of the health sector? Why? Why not? [50 words] On-line Assessment Task Three Prevention or harm minimisation of infectious disease This is an assessment task and contributes to your final grade. Use no more than 100 words (about 2 to 3 short paragraphs) to complete this task. Explain, either your response to the task or a reply to another student’s response. Please be respectful of the stated word limits for the on-line tasks. Do not ignore the limit! More is not better. It is thoughtless and unprofessional to write a long stream of disorganised thoughts. The on-line post is a time to demonstrate excellent writing skills, to be succinct, structured and to provide a synthesis of the ideas. If you need to write a lot to think your answer through, please do so in a separate space not on the discussion forum. Remember to post this on-line. This task requires us to accept an artificial construct, an “intellectual” exercise with the premise that we are only able to select a single strategy to reduce the impact of infectious disease. On-line—Question 1: What three factors influence whether you choose “prevention” or “harm minimisation” of infectious disease? [50 words] On-line—Question 2: Select one infectious disease and compare the feasibility of the two approaches i.e., prevention vs. harm minimisation. [50 words]