comprehensive application of epidemiology

Comprehensive Application of Epidemiology
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The study of epidemiology presents various problems; however, subject identification occurs at the center of this medical concept. During population identification, there are chances of encountering undefined populations, single defined populations, and total mix-up of the affected people, which is a combination of the two problems. The major problem identified under epidemiology is the undefined population; this refers to knowing the problem but the uncertainty of who is affected. One of the innovative ways to mitigate the mentioned problem is the application of microchips to help in identifying various people within a population who exhibit multiple symptoms of a given disease. By applying the suggested intervention, different health policies are affected by either boosting or hindering them. Also, the response requires some specialized treatment, and thus doctorate-prepared nurses play an important role if the application of microchips is to be successful. The implantation of the chips helps in promoting healthcare as it engages the entire health sector.
Keywords: Population, health, people, community, epidemiology
Comprehensive Application of Epidemiology
Merrill (2013) describes epidemiology as the study of how a specific disease or health determinant gets spread, and how to use the gathered information to make society safe. The data obtained from epidemiological is used to prevent or control diseases to avert further deaths or complications.

In the process of epidemiological study application, various problems get encountered depending on the place, people and time of when a health concern arises. Of interest in this analysis, is the identification of persons affected by a health situation such that already accumulated data gets used to avert a further crisis.
Some of the issues affecting epidemiological study are undefined population where the required data would be impossible to gather when the victims of a health concern cannot get identified. Then there is the problem of a single defined population where in this case, the data to be acquired can get obtained from certain people, but the modalities of collecting the data are not precise (Merrill, 2013). Lastly, there is the problem of undefined everything where in this case the people who can aid in providing the information are not defined, and also the modalities of data correction are unspecified. Understanding of epidemiological problems is essential if one has to establish the nature of challenges a specific population poses on the study of a given disease. It is upon proper identification of persons that any epidemiological data can be applied to subvert future health problems of a similar nature (Merrill, 2013). However, identification of the affected persons may prove challenging, to ease the process, planting of microchips is necessary. The usefulness of the chips is discussed in detail later in the paper.
Problem Identification
The epidemiological problem identified in this paper is the difficulty faced when identifying a population. By definition, undefined persons refer to the acknowledgment of a problem but uncertainty in who are the affected. The problem encountered is an inability to distinguish the affected people in a given population from the unaffected, this may be due to time and place variations. Under the undefined people problem, the health concern is definite whereas the affected persons are not known (Merrill, 2013). It is illogical to claim to be in possession of epidemiological data when the affected people are not identifiable.
Literature Review
In the course of investigating a disease, it is paramount to know the most affected people and the primary cause of the given condition. The importance of population identification is to enable medical practitioners to be in a position to control if not to eliminate the disease efficiently by having prior information on various people who are likely to be affected by a given condition (Young & Kroth, 2017). A population’s age, generic identification, race, locality, and occupation do carry useful epidemiological data that would help in curbing the spread of a disease or health concern. An example of this kind of problem, where population identification poses a challenge, would be exploring food poisoning in a social gathering. If we consider an activity which is running for some hours and which has been attended by many people who are undertaking various activities, it would be impossible to identify the specific number of persons who undergo food poisoning. Often, during an event there is open entry and exist to a venue; in that instance, it would be impossible to identify who precisely suffered food poisoning due to the available range of considerations (Young & Kroth, 2017). In such a case, the problem is well defined; that is we know there is food poisoning; however, the other problem is the lack of knowledge on who got poisoned.
According to Kaufman (2017), the undefined population is vital in epidemiology when it comes to setting parameters of acquiring data. Since the problem is already known, the general population can be broken down into various groups more efficiently to help in identifying the cause more effectively and efficiently. The faster the affected persons get identified; the more lives can get saved (Kaufman, 2017). When a problem gets recognized a lot of resources and time can get channeled into its course if the certainty of the affected persons exists. The entire process will thus become easier to identify the various determinants for a given disease. Population identification process is crucial in the field of epidemiology as it hastens the study of the disease and who it affects as well as when and where (Kaufman, 2017). The undefined population issue helps in ensuring that whenever the investigation of disease comes into play, a distinct community is achievable (Kaufman, 2017). Consequently, the given research on a disease gets monitored efficiently when a defined population exists.
Intervention
When trying to counter the problem of the undefined population, there should be the application of scientific identification of people. Through identification of people, a remedy gets achieved by ensuring that every component in a community checks before being applied to any other category of persons. For a study to accomplish this, there should be the application of microchips which can aid in the extraction of information of a particular individual. Microchips would make identification of person easy as the chip would be recording vital health signs of the person and relaying the data to a central monitoring base. The kind of information derived includes the medical fitness of a person, the genetic traits, and age (Nieuwenhuijsen, 2015).
The microchips should get implanted on the skin of a person close to blood vessels to ensure that they record necessary conditions of the body such as blood pressure and temperature. These circumstances are essential since they apply in the process of identification and diagnosis of assorted ailments.
When implanting the chips, care should be taken to ensure that critical organs are not affected such as the heart and the brain. By undertaking the outlined steps, the risk of spreading or developing complications in the human body gets minimized. Microchips should use rays which do not affect the body cells such as infrared rays or the visible light. When implanting them, all should be standard to ensure the data corrected from each would match a given ideal situation. The objective of this would be to guarantee that there is a fast detection of any anomaly whenever it occurs.
As the objective of implanting the chips on the human body of is to help in mitigating the problem of unidentified population. Unidentified population arises when there is a health concern, but the affected persons are not known. By using microchips, no one would go unattended if a disease emerges. If one suffers from an ailment, the data present at the central base would tell exactly how many people are affected, and from that, the unidentified person loophole gets sealed.
Various factors are essential when implanting microchips. A way should get devised on how the chips can connect to a centrally located unit for the sake of analysis. Connecting the device would help in establishing whenever, there is an unusual behavior which would point to a person or a population exhibiting a specific disease (Szklo & Nieto, 2014). The way in which such connected system would operate assumes that certain human traits which are unique are not monitored such as DNA.
All of the collected information from microchips is important when it comes to establishing the cause of a particular disease and the people affected. By use of data collected from chips, medical practitioners can be able to study carefully and with precision the spread and distribution of a given kind of disease.
Implication of the Intervention towards health care policy
The implantation of microchips would have an enormous impact on the field of pediatric care and policy. Since the implantation of the chips applies to a group of people, it means it can only get implanted successfully after conducting mass campaigns and public awareness about the procedure. The requirement of this intervention will impact on the formation of a policy that allows all population in a given area or place to undergo such an operation. The legislature would have to reconsider their agenda to include laws that would guide the ethical use of microchips and the data collected.
In so doing, various pediatric care policies would get enhanced. Such system would include the universal implantation policy which requires all those in a given population to undergone the practice. However, the mandatory application of microchips can hinder the free will of the people. By making it compulsory for persons to get chipped, the medical practitioners would have to engage in an exercise of educating the population on the necessity of this intervention, since by the end of the day; they will be required to undergo the process.
Another policy that would be affected by implantation of the microchip intervention is universal access to health. Comprehensive health to all advocates that, every person in the society ought to be in a position to access health attention whenever in need without considering the costs. The application of microchips to all will help strengthen the universal health policy since the entire population would get chipped. In the process of implanting these chips, the health practitioners are obligated to monitor the health condition of every person to determine the best time to apply epidemiological data to address a health situation (Berkman & Glymour, 2014). Through the suggested intervention, achieving of universal health care would be a possibility.
Moreover, the ethics of medical practitioners would require inference if microchip implantation succeeds. Professional ethics is of importance to the health profession as is to others, especially when formulating policies. A doctor or a nurse is required to apply a high level of ethics whenever they are in their line of duty. Some of the ethics that are crucial include confidentiality of patient information and carrying out procedures by following the standard rules. When conducting the process of implanting a microchip, medical practitioners will be fiddling with their ethics since the process can only succeed by ensuring that all set techniques run smoothly under utmost respect of personal data. In so doing, the privacy and confidentiality of the medical practitioners get encouraged, and thus the ethical policies get strengthened.
The other health impact that implantation of microchips would have is access to medicines. When undergoing the process of implantation, medical practitioners are allowed to establish the medical condition of an individual. In doing so, the various states identified get immediate attention (“Epidemiology Capacity Assessment | Healthy People 2020”, 2018). Since the process would be mandatory for all people, if a person has any medical condition, treatment would get administered in time. The access to affordable drugs and various pharmaceutical products becomes available to people. When the population is in a position to access medicines, the affordable drug policy boosts the health sector (“Epidemiology Capacity Assessment | Healthy People 2020”, 2018). One of the approaches encouraged by this intervention is coverage of health services to all people as a result of the mandatory requirement of every person in the entire population to undergone microchips implantation.
In summary, mechanisms would have to be in place to ensure that all persons get chipped. Universal health care for all will be a reality if medics have access to the data collected from microchips. Lastly, patient privacy and medical practitioner’s confidentiality would need to be of admiration if the procedure is to stand the test of time.
Role of doctorate prepared nurse
The implantation of microchips in the body of a person requires the following of strict surgical procedures and running of various tests. As a result, doctorate-prepared nurses are obligated to perform successive operations. One of the roles of doctorate-prepared nurses is aiding in running multiple tests on the population to determine the medical conditions of such people before implantation happens (Sperhac & Clinton, 2008).
The health states that are tested range from body temperatures, blood pressure, and the generic traits of a given person. Such tests are delicate and require specialized trained operators, and that is where a doctorate prepared nurse comes to play. The exercise would require the surgical procedure of the skin, and a qualified and skilled nurse is needed to carry out the operation to avoid any adverse implications (Sperhac & Clinton, 2008).
Furthermore, before body intrusion takes place, an analysis should get conducted to determine which part of the body is the best fit for implementation. More often than not, such review will be of biological nature. When surgery is involved there is no room for error; hence, well-equipped nurses will play a significant role in such a process.
The other role which doctorate prepared nurse would play in the implantation of microchips is reviewing posted analysis to identify the occurrence of any abnormality post-implantation. Since the objective of the exercise is to counter the epidemiological problem of unidentified population, once the chips are in place there should be a group of specialized nurses who can identify those people whose chips trigger abnormal reactions (Sperhac & Clinton, 2008).
The attributes, in this case, are medical and thus a well-trained nurse is required to determine whenever a given subject in the population exhibits such abnormalities. The process of analysis would additionally require various analysis techniques which can only be processed by trained nurses. The identification of medical defects requires specialized medical practitioners. Nurses are needed in the post-implantation process as they have the necessary training in offering primary care (Sperhac & Clinton, 2008).
In conclusion, epidemiology has various problems but of concern to this paper is population identification. While each issue is crucial in this field, solving the question of the unknown people can help minimize the repercussions of a health condition. To address this challenge, an intervention such the discussed has to be in use. The use of microchips that get implanted in the body of the population is a solution to enable the affected people to get identified. The medical implication of intervention on various healthy policies seems to strengthen majority of them. Furthermore, the invasion plays a vital role for practitioners in the field of medicine; the nurses who are involved in the process gather handy information for analysis. The intervention is purely innovative and thus can be improved to ensure that it covers the entire population effectively and efficiently.
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