Importance of Cultural Competence in Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Response
Cultural competence is important when public health practitioners need to address infectious disease outbreaks in cross-cultural communities. Before beginning this assignment, learn about cultural competence in public health. Also, read the attached document. For this assignment, you must demonstrate an understanding of the community that you chose based on the scenario you choose. Do not provide a generic response. It must be specific and detailed in the information and how you will APPLY cultural competence in the given situation.
Choose one of the scenarios to discuss:
Measles outbreaks in the U.S. have continued to occur due to lack of vaccination. Most notably in the Somali community in Minnesota in 2017 and in the Amish community in Ohio in 2014. Devise a program to facilitate vaccination in response to one of these outbreaks. Conduct a needs and a capacity assessment to identify cultural commonalities and differences to be addressed, and the ability of your program to address them.
The lack of cultural competence in the recent Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016 in West Africa has been implicated as a reason that the outbreak was not contained sooner. If you were a public health practitioner responding to this outbreak, how would you include cultural norms and leaders in how you communicate with the community in order to control and prevent the disease from spreading?
https://npin.cdc.gov/pages/cultural-competence
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