Epidemiology Case Study Essay

First, awareness of the disease will be first priority, spreading the word will help reduce the spread by using the information about the disease. Putting up posters and contacting media teams will. By doing so, the word will spread out and that a large population of people will go see doctors. Without the information if a patient is sick or not based on their body temperature will only add more and more work for the staffers in medical clinics and hospitals. Using the information given we can confirm that if a patient has a body temperature of 40-41 degrees, that patient is sick. Patients with body temperatures of 36-38 degrees are confirmed to be healthy and not affected by the disease. Making this information to the public will allow only the right people to go to hospital from treatment, they can check their own body …show more content…
By making this information open for the public, only the actual sick people can go to the doctors if they are conformed to be in the right ages ranges (it can be any age range but mostly 0-30) and right body temperature. Combining these 2 factors means that work in clinics and hospitals will possibly be reduced. Given the information of the most areas/cities affected in south Australia, the government can target areas that need the most attention, potentially saving lives and reading the spread by taking out big sources of spread. The top 3 most infected cities in south Australia includes the city of Unley, The city of Norwood and the city of Holdfast Bay. Table 1 shows that the action of non-preventative measures, with a of 0.26 percent of sick people. Preventative measure has a 0.17 percent of sick people and vaccinated has 0 percent of sick people. this means that preventative measures do work because the percentage of sick people reduced. This also tells gives us information that vaccines work against the