Learning Objectives
- Discuss the public health response to emergent or modified infectious diseases in epidemics and pandemics and the responsibilities of health practitioners in this response
- Describe the steps of outbreak investigation
- Discuss the impact of climate change on the health of communities using examples
Outbreak Control
- what is an endemic disease?
- what is an epidemic disease?
- what is a pandemic disease?
- what does an outbreak involve?
- what are the 10 steps of outbreak investigation?
- Outbreak Prevention
Climate Change
- what aspects of climate change affect health?
- what 3 mechanisms drive climate change?
- how does extreme heat impact health?
- how do droughts and fires impact health?
- how do cyclones impact health?
- how does sea level rise impact health?
- how does climate change affect NCDs?