Issue 1: [Type issue here] What is the problem?: W12 Practice Assignment Hurricane Harvey What information would you need to gather to determine the extent of the problem? How will you collect this information?: What are one or two goals you would like to set? A goal is often stated as [your target population] will do something or will have access to something. (i.e. My community will have access to clean water).: What is one intervention you can create and implement that will help accomplish your goal(s)?: How would you implement the intervention? How would you evaluate the results? How would you measure whether or not you met your goal? Issue 2: [Type Issue here] What is the problem?: What information would you need to gather to determine the extent of the problem? How will you collect this information?: What are one or two goals you would like to set? A goal is often stated as [your target population] will do something or will have access to something. (i.e. My community will have access to clean water).: What is one intervention you can create and implement that will help accomplish your goal(s)?: How would you implement the intervention? How would you evaluate the results? How would you measure whether or not you met your goal? Five Public Health Crises Texas Faces After Harvey [Fox News Alert, A helicopter shot of a flooded area is shown] Female Newscaster: This is a Fox News alert. Health fears are growing amid all the flooding in Texas, so what do people need to be on the lookout for? Male Newscaster: Joining us now is Dr. Nicole Saphier; she is a radiologist and is right here in the living room. Thanks for being here. Dr. Nicole Saphier: Good Morning. Male: So you've got five big things that people need to look out [for], especially in a situation like this. What's the first one? Dr. Saphier: Well the catastrophic flooding that we're seeing right now is without a doubt due to America's biggest rain storm that we've ever had. So the storm's gonna pass, the waters will recede but the dangers, the health concerns will linger and the top one is the water. Pick a toxin; it's in that water. The flood waters are completely contaminated. We have overflowing sewage systems, you have chemical plants that are having explosions that are releasing toxins. The storm hit right in the heart of the petrochemical capital of Houston and so you're just seeing mass contamination of this water. You have kids playing in it, people wading in the water. It's now hit everything in the homes from kids toys to utensils, and that's a huge concern. Male: What about drinking water? Dr. Saphier: Drinking water. Houston right now their drinking system is intact but a lot of surrounding areas are without drinking water. Most of the drinking water is contaminated. You see people standing in lines for hours just to get bottles of water. They're rationing water. Do not drink any water unless you know for a fact that it's been cleared as safe. Female: Yeah, now what about the mosquitoes, because if you've lived in Houston you know how humid it is. It's probably 90 degrees there today and you have the mosquitoes that- Dr. Saphier: This is a huge huge concern, huge concern. Stagnant water is just a breeding ground for mosquitoes, and we know with mosquitoes comes viruses, comes diseases. You have the Zika virus, West Nile virus, Dengue virus. We're gonna be seeing a lot more cases of this to come. Male: When I was preparing for this segment. This one caught me off guard, because I wasn't ready for it but lost medicine. You don't even think about the fact that if you leave quickly you might leave some things behind. Dr. Saphier: Well, let me tell you if you were someone who depends on daily medications, this is obviously a huge concern for you. They've had to really focus in on what to do for a lot of people, a lot of people either left medications behind or they brought it with them but it got contaminated by the water. You cannot take that medication even though you've dried it out if it is touched that water, it is no good. So the emergency was - We need the patients who depend on dialysis, oxygen requirements. We've had to really mobilize efforts to get them that treatment or else they will die. And then what's happening is because of Hurricane Katrina they were a little bit prepared for this. They have a lot of medical supplies such as insulin for diabetics, blood pressure medications and so they have been able to provide a lot of that. There are over 300,000 pharmacies I believe in Texas that are still functioning and a lot of them have centralized computer systems so if you have your name you have your information you can go to one of them and they can tell you what medications that you take and hopefully be able to provide that for you. Female: A lot of people are going back home today, tomorrow, over the weekend. They're going to have to rebuild, they're worried about mold. Dr. Saphier: Yes, as the waters come back, things seem to dry out but you look at that drywall it may look dry to you but you need to look inside. Mold is going to grow there. After Hurricane Katrina, after two months half of the homes that were damaged we found mold in them and mold can exacerbate asthma, give you lung problems. Think of 9/11 and all of the long-term effects that had to do with lungs. Similar things are going to happen here if we have people living in homes where mold is growing. Male: And the final thing you warned about is the spread of infectious diseases? Dr. Saphier: Think about it. I have young children and so does Ainsly, so do you, actually. Think of that as a daycare. Kids always have a runny nose, right? That's because you have a lot of kids in a very small area. Now you have tens of thousands of people in rooms that were made for hundreds of people, so you're going to have viruses that are just spread so easily and as I said with overflowing sewage systems you're gonna have a lot of disease spread quickly. Male: Well it's better to be informed than be caught off guard, so I appreciate your expertise very much. Dr. Saphier: Thanks guys. Step 03 Choose two of the five issues mentioned in the video and create a brief plan that addresses each issue. You will use the generic planning model to help you in the planning process. Do not go into too much detail as you complete this assignment. Keep the assignment at one page in length. Step 04 Submit your document. W12 Practice Assignment Criteria Issue #1 25 pts No Description Student chose an issue from the video, followed the steps of the generic planning model and detailed a brief plan to solve the problem. Ratings 13 pts Student chose an issue from the video, followed the steps of the generic planning model and detailed a brief plan to solve the problem but did not give a description for each step. Issue #2 25 pts Student chose an issue from the video, followed the steps of the generic planning model and detailed a brief plan to solve the problem. 13 pts Student chose an issue from the video, followed the steps of the generic planning model and detailed a brief plan to solve the problem but did not give a description for each step. Pts O pts Did not choose an issue or answer the question. 25 pts O pts Did not choose an issue or answer the question. 25 pts Total Points: 50