Current Health-Care Issue
Remerging outbreak for Measles
A measles outbreak has become a significant issue in health care due to its re-emerging trend. Measles is a respiratory disease that is transmissible from one person to another. It can be transmitted from through inhaling of aerosol that is infected. The condition is also transmitted by getting into contact with contaminated surfaces. The diseases for the longest time have been prevented through vaccination of people. However, this has not completely eradicated the possibility of conditions re-emerging. The viruses spread very fast since the contaminated ambient air remains contaminated for two hours; the incubation duration for the diseases is seven to eighteen days. The paper will discuss how the measles outbreak as a current remerging issue in health-care.
Measles is preventable through vaccination, but that does not eliminate the possibility of it occurring. It only takes one infected person to spread the disease. The hospitals, therefore, have the role of ensuring that it is prepared such a situation (Gostin, 2015). in addressing the condition, the hospital ensures that its staff is trained on how to deal with such infectious diseases. Since the condition is spread through contact with an infected person, the health care providers who are supposed to take care of the infected persons are trained on how to deal with them. The hospital also addresses such matters by ensuring that the health care providers are availed with the necessary protective gear to deal with the condition without risking their health. The hospital addresses the issue by always making sure they have isolation areas for such patients to curb the spread of the diseases.
Measles is a deadly condition which can sweep a large population of people if correct measures are not put in place. The re-emerging outbreak of measles has a cultural impact on society since people infected with the condition end up being stigmatized (Bester,2016). Although the symptoms of the disease are treatable through paracetamols, the condition cannot be treated. The disease is only managed through the vaccination of an individual in case of an outbreak. Since the disease is communicable, people tend to fear individuals that were infected even after recovering. The other cultural impact is that some individuals, due to their cultural beliefs, may refuse to get vaccinated. Lack of vaccination puts their life risk, and this can only be eliminated through proper education of people in case of an outbreak.
In the case of a measles outbreak in a nation, various legislation actions may be implemented. First immunization of individuals may be made compulsory, with the exception of people with a given medical condition or religious beliefs against vaccination. The other legislative action is demanding for infected individuals to wear masks as a means of ensuring they do not spread the diseases to other people. People infected with the condition may also be required to get admitted and put in isolation as a means of ensuring that the condition is contained (Griffin,2018). Some of the government agencies that may get involved include the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention. According to the CDC, the availability of vaccines in the modern world is a miracle that should get embraced. It helps the nation avoid so many deaths that can be caused by communicable diseases. In case of a measle outbreak, CDC will ensure that the condition is maintained by administering a vaccine to the people. CDC ensures that the illnesses are prevented by ensuring the immune system of an individual can fight the disease; hence the spread is eliminated.
The other government agencies that may get involved in the American Medical Association, which will ensure that patient’s safety. AMA provides that there is an improvement in the quality of care that is given to patients who are already infected with the condition. AMA works with organizations such as CDC to ensure that in case of an outbreak of a disease, the patients are given the best care. The organization ensures that the health care providers are given the required protection gears, and the patients are given the best care in their recovery process. They also play the role of ensuring that the correct information about how people can prevent themselves from getting diseases. It also ensures that the public is well informed on the importance of vaccination as a means of curbing the virus.
In conclusion, despite the availability of a measles vaccine, it does not prevents it from remerging. It only takes one infected person to cause an outbreak of the deadly diseases in a nation. Measles is a respiratory disease that is high contagious that since it spreads through contact with an infected person and inhaling infected aerosols (Goodson,2015). It is not treatable, but it can get prevented through vaccination. Health care providers always have to be prepared to deal with this condition through training of their staff on how to deal with such a condition. Some of the protocols followed in case of an outbreak are ensuring that their health care providers are administered with the needed vaccines, and they are given the necessary protection gears. Patients that are infected are then administered and isolated to ensure that the diseases are not spread. Government agencies such as CDC and AMA also ensure that people are administered the vaccine to ensure they do not get infected. Measles vaccine helps prevent the occurrence of the diseases, but that does not necessarily mean that the condition cannot re-emerge. Therefore, health-care providers always have to get prepared to deal with the condition in case it remerges in a nation. Individuals, however, have to be vaccinated as a means of ensuring they do not get infected since the disease cannot be treated.
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Goodson, J. L., & Seward, J. F. (2015). Measles 50 years after the use of the measles vaccine. Infectious Disease Clinics, 29(4), 725-743.
Griffin, D. E. (2018). Measles vaccine. Viral immunology, 31(2), 86-95.
Gostin, L. O. (2015). Law, ethics, and public health in the vaccination debates: politics of the measles outbreak. Jama, 313(11), 1099-1100.