Public Health and infectious diseases

10 important questions on Public Health and infectious diseases

What is the main data gathering systems?

  • Notifiable diseases: diseases that must be reported/notified (in 48 hours) by doctors or laboratory.
  • Population survey: going into the community and ask people about their illness

Besides data gathering what is an important task of public health?

Monitoring changes; do things occur or start to occur in your population?

What kind of intervention can public health introduce?

  • Direct
Quarantine (well people)
Isolation (ill people)
Vaccination
Treatment (compulsory)
  • Indirect
Drugs
Food etc
     
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So with notifiable diseases what is important in this?

All the legislations.
First in 1947 => revisions of the list of diseases, when you get new diseases.

Which new act was made because of the pandemic 2020?

  • Health (preservation and protection and other emergency measures in the public interest) act.
- Time limited act => is expired now
  • Statutory instruments (amendments of the law, you dont need to go to the parlement) 

What was possible because of the health act 2020?

Essentially: lockdown and social distancing

What belongs to the statutory instruments?

  • Face covering
  • Detention of someone (quarantine)

Who is the medical officer of health?

Implement legislation.
- Legal functions
- Obligation when there is an outbreak

Who gets all the information of diseases? Do you have to inform these instances?

Health protection surveillance centre (HPSC) (Ireland) (We can look at the data)
Early warning and response system (EWRS) (EU)

Yes, you most inform all the instances.

What was very important in testing and registration during covid?

The test results did not only went to the GP but also to CIDR.
UK did not have this system.

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