Topic :severe acute respiratory syndrome

ASSESSMENT BRIEF 

Subject Code and Title PUBH6006: Community Health and Disease Prevention 

Assessment             Assessment 3: Emergency Response Plan: Community Engagement and Mobilisation Strategy Individual/Group
Individual Length            1,500 words 

Learning Outcomes          This assessment addresses the following learning outcome:
                   5. Apply theoretical frameworks to develop effective health promotion interventions 

Submission              Due Sunday following the end of Module 6 (Week 12) at 11:55pm AEST/AEDT* 

Weighting               30%

 Total Marks             100 marks

*Please Note: This time is Sydney time (AEST or AEDT). Please convert to your own time zone (e.g. Adelaide = 11:25pm).

Instructions:
 To prepare for this assessment, your lecturer will choose one of the public health outbreaks (Ebola, Avian influenza, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Zika virus) in any country for you to prepare.
 Prepare a community engagement and mobilization strategy for an emergency response plan for an emergency outbreak.
 Your strategy should clearly state a step-by-step approach that ensures that communities are engaged and have an active role alongside authorities and health agencies in the plan to rapidly respond to the threat of the spread of the disease.
 The strategy should use headings for each stage of community engagement, consultation, participation, organisation, capacity building, action and possibly empowerment.
 Explain your decision to use either a top-down and/or bottom-up approach.

General Points:
 Please use sub headings for each stage, strategy, and approach as per this assessment brief.
 Introduction and conclusion paragraphs do not need subheadings.
 Use appropriate scholarly sources include peer-review journal articles, subject readings, academic books and book chapters and publications from reputable grey literature sources.
 The World Health Organisation (WHO) website (https://www.who.int/) is also an important source of information. Please look for information into WHO publications (Highlight, Recent WHO reports, WHO Journals, WHO Regional publications, Key WHO publications, and Journals), rather than relying only upon information available on its webpages.
 Please cite at least 10 ‐ 12 scholarly sources for this assessment. Ensure your report is written in a clear manner including spelling, grammar, structure, tone, and accurate referencing in accordance with the APA Publication Manual 7th Edition .

Assessment criteria:
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of different approaches to health emergency preparedness and response. (20%)
• Demonstrates the ability to critique the advantages of using a bottom-up approach versus a top-down approach to health emergency preparedness and response. (30%)
• Demonstrates the ability to apply knowledge of theories and models of health emergency preparedness and response to an existing community health problem. (30%)
• General assessment criteria (20%):
 Provides a lucid introduction
 Shows a sophisticated understanding of the key issues
 Shows the ability to interpret relevant information and literature in relation to your chosen topic
 Demonstrates a capacity to explain and apply relevant concepts
 Shows evidence of reading beyond the key reading
 Justifies any conclusions reached with well-formed arguments not merely assertion
 Provides a conclusion or summary
 Use of academic writing and presentation and grammar.
 Complies with normal academic standards of legibility, referencing and bibliographical details (including reference list).
 Is written clearly with accurate spelling, grammar and sentence/paragraph construction
 Appropriate citation and referencing used (APA style)

Please check attached file. Complete details are in this file. and please use reference in Harvard styles.

Use articles above 2005