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In a study to determine contact patterns in Thailand, people were encouraged to use a contract tracing application over a 3-month period. The researcher found that young adults had the most active contact pattern than other age groups. Please help identify confounders for this association. Please provide one confounder for each student, and please…[Read more]

Choose one (or more) of the following vital statistics and describe
1. Definition of each vital statistic?
2. How to calculate each vital statistic?
3. What are the main usefulness of each vital statistic?

Here is a list of vital statistics.
Case-Fatality rate
Mortality rate
Age-specific mortality rate
Maternal mortality rate
Infant mortality…[Read more]

Please give your view on the four recommended points that public health professionals can do to fight corruption.
Do you agree or disagree, why? Any other suggestion which could work better to fight corruption in your setting? (10 marks)

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Please providing an example of health system improvement in any health setting and discuss the possible barriers that could occur in that system improvement process. (10 Marks)

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If you are going to develop a disaster recovery plan for your organization’s information system, in your personal opinion, what procedures should be included in the plan, what technology (backup, replicate, or any other technology) is suitable for your organinzation regarding budget, system scale or size, and people?

If you implement the High Availablity technology in your hospital information system (HIS), in your opinion, what benefits will patients and hospital receive?

According to the principle of information security or CIA Triad, have you ever had experience about not being able to preserve the confidentiality or Integrity or Availablity of your information system? Please share that experience.

What happened?
How did it affect the system or users?
And how to prevent it?

Reflect and report some factors related to healthcare resources during the pandemic, categorized by a STEEP letter in your setting.

STEEP – Social, Technologies, Environment, Economic and Political – what factors influence the healthcare resources in your setting based on these categories?
Lack of communication due to WFH and social dis…[Read more]

Post and share your project plan using either flowchart or Gantt chart in Topic Discussion

Please write a short paragraph about yourself to describe a moment where you decided to step out from your comfort zone and take a new action (5 points).

Say …
WHY did you decide to do that?
WHAT did it feel like after the event?
WHAT did you gain from this new experience? (could be good and bad)
To be fair, this is mine:
I have been a e…[Read more]

Please watch VDOs of public communication regarding COVID-19 situation from the leaders of two countries: Singapore and the USA. Then try to observe whether the two leaders are good communicators or not. When watching the VDOs try to look for the six principles of CREC, recommended by the CDC:

The article provides a roadmap for the implementation of digital health policy by stakeholders to prepare for and address current and future pandemics. Based on the themes proposed in the article, which theme(s) do you think that your country still lacks or needs improvement to strengthen the preparedness in your country.

Could you list the disease outbreaks that have been declared as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?
Why do these outbreaks raise such concerns?
In your opinion, is there a disease or condition that may potentially lead to PHEIC in the future? Why?

According to steps of outbreak investigation, how could information technology be applied to assist the outbreak investigation process?

In the case study of the surveillance of melioidosis disease, it is interesting to see a large discrepancy of number of deaths between the national reporting system and the actual number of death cases from hospitals. We would not be able to recognize this until we did the evaluation.
What would be the consequences of inaccurate data reported to…[Read more]

Please read the article by Jobie Budd, et al. Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19. (2020) Nature Medicine. Vol 26:1183-1192

This article gave examples on the application of digital technologies to enhance COVID-19 surveillance and response. Please give 1 technology or tool that you like most and briefly explain how it…[Read more]

Feel free to leave us questions in the forum below if you can’t make it on the day and we will response them during the session.

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail). What are main factors that make the system successful or failure (Data, Cost, Operation, Design, and People)?

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail)—this could be the same system you mentioned in the previous topic discussion (Topic 1). Do you think that the organization appropriately managed the change or not? Think about ADKAR model that we just learned.

Please watch the VDO for topic discussion.