Online Course
NRSG 780 - Health Promotion and Population Health
Module 11: Infectious Diseases
Overview
Despite tremendous advances in infectious disease prevention efforts, vaccinations, antibiotics and other treatments that have resulted in increased longevity, millions of Americans still contract infectious diseases each year. Worldwide, infectious diseases are the leading cause of death of people under the age of 60. We remain in the midst of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the new strain of flu. All of us are learning how to address these problems and many have been on the frontlines treating patients and trying to control the spread of the disease. (Information on COVID-19 will be addressed in Module 13 Critical Issues in Population Health).
The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of infectious disease transmission and interventions to control the chain of infection. It emphasizes infectious disease prevalence and prevention strategies and population-based initiatives on the national and state level designed to reduce the burden of infectious diseases in general and HIV/AIDS specifically.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this module, the learner will be able to:
- Explain the modes of transmission of infectious diseases
- Identify prevention strategies for infectious diseases
- Identify prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS
- Discuss national planning models for infectious diseases
- Discuss national planning models for HIV/AIDS
- Review the state goals for addressing population-based infectious diseases prevention
- Review the state goals for addressing population-based HIV/AIDS prevention
- Describe a model community-based HIV/AIDS prevention program
Required Readings
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A CDC Framework for Preventing Infectious Diseases (2011).Overview Available at https://www.cdc.gov/ddid/docs/ID-Framework-2pageoverview.pdf
- Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2015). Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2015. Introduction (pp. 4-10); Reducing Sexually Transmitted Infections and TB (pp. 81-92). Available at https://www.issuelab.org/resources/23703/23703.pdf
- AIDS.gov. (2022). HIV/AIDS Care Continuum. Available at http://aids.gov/federal-resources/policies/care-continuum/
Recommended Readings
- Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2015). Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases 2015. Available at https://www.issuelab.org/resources/23703/23703.pdf
- National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: 2022-2025. (n.d.) Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/National-HIV-AIDS-Strategy.pdf
- HIV/AIDS Basics. Available at http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/
- CDC Coronavirus COVID-19 Available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Directions
Read the module content and activities. There will be no discussion board this week. Please continue working on part two of your paper.
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