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NCCID Alert:
Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease Prevention & Control
July 2017
 
Focusing on practices and policies which serve to move beyond individual diseases to more global methods of understanding and approaching public health.
NEW FROM THE NCCs

CASE STUDY
Welcoming Refugees: Niagara Region’s Guide for Primary Care
 
From NCC for Infectious Diseases: In November 2015, the Canadian government released its initial plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees. Public health planners and primary care providers across the country wished to prepare for the arrival of the newcomers. In this case study, we describe the process and planning done by a dedicated team in the Niagara Region, as an example of public health preparation for refugees that could be adapted in other parts of the country.
 
TRAINING
A Framework for Analyzing Public Policies
 
From NCC for Healthy Public Policy: "Public health actors are increasingly called upon to inform the policy-making process because public policies are a lever for action that affects the determinants of health. This online training offers a structured approach to analyzing public policies. This approach is based on an analytical framework that reflects a public health perspective, while at the same time integrating other concerns of policy makers. ... Once you will have completed the training course, you can ask for a certificate of completion."

LINKS


SCOPING REVIEW
The Interaction of Public Health and Primary Care: Functional Roles and Organizational Models that Bridge Individual and Population Perspectives
 
From Public Health Reviews:"This scoping review aims to better understand how [public health and primary care] sectors interact by identifying their shared functions, and by identifying organizational models that could facilitate the interaction between the two domains. ... Most authors identified screening and immunization as actions that are carried out in primary care, but that can benefit from the support of public health."
 
OPINION
Fact boxes: A tool to immunize the public against vaccine misinformation
 
From Health News Review: "The stark contrast between public perception and scientific reality has motivated much research into media coverage of the MMR issue and declining national vaccination rates in the US and the UK. ... How can we help [doctors and] patients make informed decisions? Simple fact boxes that we have developed here at the Harding Center for Risk Literacy ... are a promising solution. All numbers contained in a fact box are delivered in absolute terms, which makes it easier (compared with relative risk figures) for readers to conceptualize the true size of the benefit (or harm) conferred by the intervention."
 
NEWSLETTER
barfblog.com
 
barfblog.com offers "evidence-based opinions on current food safety issues." Its infosheets offer "discussion of a foodborne illness outbreak; discussion of background knowledge of a pathogen (including symptoms, etiology and transmission); food handler control practices; and emerging food safety issues. [They] also contain evidence-based prescriptive information to prevent or mitigate foodborne illness related to food handling."
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