JULY 18th Reflection VNM

How did the Chat today change your understanding of the cases.

The July 11th Chat session emphasized the importance of having an interoperable health care system. It portrayed how communication can make all the health care professionals work effectively in giving quality services to the patients. Both cases needed the services of the Health Care Department. Health Education can improve the health of the population. Both cases would need the health department to screen the population for possible cases. The mission of Craven County Health Department is:
"… to preserve health than to recover it… to prevent disease than to cure it." -- Dr. George Cheyne, 1725

What did you learn from the cases about your county health department?

The Craven County Health Department has programs conducive for patients with Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Diseases spread by disease coursing organisms. It has a Health Education Department, Environmental Health Department, WIC/Nutrition Health Department and other departments that can offer quality services to patients and improve the quality of health care in Craven County.

How has your perspective on the role of the health department and collaboration changed as a result of studying the cases?

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has made collaboration/communication easier locally, nationally and internationally. Due to improved means of communication it is easier for the health department to exchange ideas and solve problems in an evidence based manner to improve the quality health care in the county/state/national population.

The Health Department has a very important obligation in the community. It is responsible for controlling the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and other illnesses. The Environment that inhabits a given population should be conducive for living. This can be made possible by screening community members for communicable illnesses and destroying the habitat of disease coursing organisms.