Healthcare Control

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012), “…it is important to conduct surveillance to determine the extent and scope of the health effects on the affected populations…Public health surveillance during a disaster allows for the detection of potential disease outbreaks and track disease and injury trends.” In public health emergencies, decisions need to be made in a very short period, which is very different than a standard epidemiological investigation.

Please answer the following:

1. Discuss a scenario (your experience if possible) when an attempt to control health problems was implemented. Be sure to focus on the health of a community, rather than the individual patients.
2. How are rapid needs assessments used during disasters and emergencies?

Please use APA style and use intext citations APA style. Please No Plagiarism

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Discussion of a scenario

In American, the health insurance was becoming expensive for the average person. Typically, the providence of the health care in the United States was based on insurance coverage, but this Deity did not capture the low-income earners, the unemployed and the elderly. It was now becoming a health care crisis that was based on rising costs and restricted access to the healthcare. As a way of controlling the situation, the United States came up with a universal health plan to give access to all the Americans at a controlled expense (Istepanian, Laxminarayan, & Pattichis, 2014). The universal plan was in the name of Obama care. Mainly, the Americans had been at a health care crisis, but the Obama care came to solve their problem…………………words 357