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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS PREPARATION -
Assignment Requirements - Cite at least 2 scholarly resources to support your responses to steps 11 through 14.
Submit your completed worksheet, including your summary by the specified deadline.
- Identify immediate and basic issues within the case study, including the problem at hand, its significance, and related assumptions.
- Describe any missing information, risk factors, alternative strategies and negative outcomes.
- Define a problem statement (see the example provided in the Case Study Analysis Preparation worksheet).
- Develop an action and implementation plan.
- Summarize takeaways and reflections on the process, as well as the viability of the plan.
Case Theme -
1. Read the case study and take notes
2. Situation
- Who
- What
- Where
- When
- Why
- How
3. What is the immediate issue?
4. What are the basic issues?
5. Problem: It is essential to identify what the problem was
- Identify the problem.
- Explain why the problem is important.
- How was the problem identified?
- A problem statement is a clear concise description of the issue(s) that need(s) to be addressed by a problem solving team. It is used to center and focus the team at the beginning, keep the team on track during the effort, and is used to validate that the effort delivered an outcome that solves the problem statement.
- Was the process for identifying the problem effective?
6. Outline any assumptions identified from the process of defining the problem
7. Is there any missing information that would have helped to define the problem?
8. What are the risk factors to the population beyond any outlined in the case study? Environmental, social, economic, etc.
9. Is this population vulnerable to other negative outcomes?
10. Define alternative strategies.
Case Strategy
11. Preferred Alternative and Rationale for Choice
12. Problem Statement
13. Develop an Action and Implementation Plan.
14. Describe takeaways and reflections.
- Describe any biases
- How did your background and culture influence your decision-making?
- Throughout the process, how did you consider "patterns of behavior" and "structures"? (see image below)
- How did your team perform?
Case Study Follow-up questions- (Hemorrhagic fever in Africa adaptation)
What should study design(s) be considered for such outbreak investigation? Justify your choice. Also, discuss individually and collectively why the other study designs were not considered useful.
What additional information may be helpful in responding to this disease outbreak as an epidemiologist?
How could social, cultural, religious, political and economic factors impact the outcomes of this outbreak investigation? Be sure to examine each of these factors as a fact versus an assumption
CASE STUDY - EBOLA OUTBREAK
REVIEW -
1. Friis & Sellers (2014), Chapter 12: Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.
2. Annex9O: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (including Ebola Virus Disease and Marburg Virus Disease.
3. Overview, Control Strategies, and Lessons Learned in the CDC Response to the 2014-2016 Ebola Epidemic.
CASE STUDY - On March 14, 2014, the Ministry of Health in Liberia reported the first few cases of what seemed to be cholera. Local health clinics notified their district headquarters of a rise in patients complaining of fever, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, stomach pain, severe headache, and unexplained bleeding. JFK Memorial Hospital has now reported that 10 staff members and those living within 10 miles of the hospital have been infected and 5 of them have died.
Monrovia is the capital of Liberia with a population of about 1 million people (? of the entire nation's residents). It is the most populous city in the country, so public health practitioners were concerned that further spread of this virus could be catastrophic. The Ministry of Health began working with a team of outbreak investigation specialists to understand this disease, how it was spreading, and options for curtailing it. A few questions were asked about what this virus was and how to define it, based on standard case definitions in the country's Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response Guidelines and lab-based specimen evaluations. Could it be cholera? Or Marburg virus? Or Flu?
A few months after, a doctor from Nigeria was identified with similar symptoms and he eventually died. His last few days were spent doing missionary work in different West African countries. This prompted other West African countries and international organizations such as the World Health Organization, African Region and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to step in and contribute to this investigation. Travel alerts were shared warning people about this deadly virus that was yet to be fully characterized.
The death toll continued to rise as more countries, including the United States of America, reported new cases of the virus. Two years later, there are 28,652 cases worldwide and 11,325 deaths due to this deadly virus. Cultural beliefs and social norms clashed with clinical guidelines on interaction with other living beings and dead corpses. National and local policies have been enacted. More international attention meant more funding allocation but where is the money going? How are external organizations determining who receives funding? How do non-local experts interact with indigenous public health practitioners to address this fatal viral outbreak?
FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS -
What study design(s) should be considered for such outbreak investigation? Justify your choice.
What additional information would be helpful in responding to this outbreak?
What are some social, cultural, religious, political, and economic elements that could impact the outcomes of this outbreak investigation?
REFERENCE - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epidemic Intelligence Service, New England Epidemiology Institute, 1992.
Note - Citation requirements: 2, Word count: 600-800 per case study, APA formatting and Title page and Reference page. Follow the directions and answer all questions on the case study preparations analysis worksheet.
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