Question

The topic for this week is evidence-based public health. Think about public health successes or current public health problems. Describe the "PERIE" process for a public health problem of your choosing (PERIE=problem, etiology, recommendations, implementation, evaluation). If your public health issue is currently happening, discuss your recommendations for how to solve the problem. Feel free to add in a link/short video to give background on the public health problem. Other discussion points to think about: (for your first post and when responding to other students) What are the contributory causes of the problem? What methods for implementation were utilized as part of the implementation process? Examine the implementation method using the "when-who-how" approach Did the evaluation demonstrate whether the implementation was successful?

Answer 1

Problem

The biggest health problem facing is lung cancer which has seen empirically observed data of 105 out of every 1,00,000.

Etiology

The biggest cause of lung cancer is cigarette smoking as well as contaminated air quality index. This has been proven using cause effect and Cohort analysis techniques.

Recommendations

As per CDC, recommendations for lung cancer prevention is reducing commercial availability of tobacco based products as well as limits on air pollution and strict procedures and protocol.

Implementation

When- Before disease occurs as well as when disease has already shown symptoms

How- low cost effective health care treatments as necessarily for every citizen

Who- Government needs to act and pass bill to provide universal health care low cost sytem for affected individuals as this is national problem and treatment be accessible even remotest of hospital

Evaluation

Success of campaign should check number of patients admitted, turnaround time for treatment, overall treatment cost and patients treated, treatments accessibility ratio.