Global Health Case Study

Objective:

Create a PowerPoint or another interactive technology that will suffice of 5-7 slides. You will use the questions below to guide your presentation. Provide your Case Study on Slide 1, then answer the questions below and add your references on the final slide.

Case Study:

You are a community health nurse stationed in a small village in Africa, near the equator. Your nursing station outpost provides the only reliable modern health care in the tropical remote area. Although you have been accepted into the community and the clinic services are free, you have noticed that many people put off seeking health care for illnesses unless they feel too sick to work. Most of the residents work outdoors, typically wearing short sleeves and shorts or skirts. The villagers live in small huts without doors or windows. Many people live together in these small homes; one family even has 13 people ranging from small children to elderly grandparents all under one roof.

A recent outbreak of malaria has occurred. This is the third outbreak of malaria in this village in the past 10 years. Knowing that malaria-infected mosquitoes spread malaria, you embark on a plan to control the outbreak. You ask your funding organization to send malaria drugs that will cure and prevent the disease. In response to the outbreak, the organization that supports your nursing outpost clinic provides not only chemotherapeutic agents for prevention and treatment, but also pesticides for vector reduction and free clothing and mosquito netting that protect vulnerable parts of the body. Workers from the nursing outpost clinic and community volunteers go to the homes of individuals to teach them how to prevent the spread of malaria and to treat new cases.

For information about malaria (how it is spread and its symptoms and treatment), visit the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) website.

Create a presentation for the class that addresses the following concepts:

• What is the burden of disease of Malaria?
• Look at the CDC and WHO websites and discuss your findings on patient education for prevention of Malaria. What are some primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities that your nursing outpost clinic is providing to control the spread of malaria?
• Develop a community education project that targets malaria. What are the primary and most significant points that you want to address?
• Provide two (2) examples of scholarly articles that discuss similar projects or studies. What were their findings? What concepts from this work can you share?