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Response to Carmen T.
Considering Haiti's susceptibility to natural disasters, the focus should shift towards public health education in all aspects of healthcare. Nurses and government should not wait until a natural disaster happens for them to begin offering healthcare education. There should be better strategies in place to ensure that the citizens understand what they should do when a disaster happens to prevent the spread of disease. Therefore, continuous public health education should be aimed at mitigating the risk of communicable disease spread after a disaster (Guillaume et al., 2018). While the population might be ignorant of appropriate healthcare measures, there could be other underlying causes of their ignorance. For example, have any healthcare educational approaches been implemented in the area? Trying to educate people after or during a disaster will yield unfavorable results because they have more pressing issues to deal with at the moment. Education should be done when there is no disaster and incorporate different aspects like advertisements and not just when visiting a healthcare facility (Yu et al., 2019).
Response to Ola O.
The risk factors for increased transmission of infectious diseases and outbreaks are mainly caused by the after-effects of the disaster and not the primary disaster...…in the country, it clearly indicates that natural disasters are not the cause. Rather they exacerbate the situation. Another focus should be on proper hand washing after visiting toilet facilities. Cholera is spread through food and water contamination by feces from an infected person (Cambaza et al., 2019). Focusing on using toilet facilities instead of defecating in water or open areas will reduce the chances of feces contaminating water and food.
Guillaume, Y., Ternier, R., Vissieres, K., Casseus, A., Chery, M. J., & Ivers, L. C. (2018). Responding to cholera in Haiti: Implications for the national plan to eliminate cholera by 2022. The Journal of infectious diseases, 218(suppl_3), S167-S170. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy491
Kahn, R., Mahmud, A. S., Schroeder, A., Ramirez, L. H. A., Crowley, J., Chan, J., & Buckee, C. O. (2019). Rapid forecasting of cholera risk in Mozambique: translational challenges and opportunities. Prehospital and disaster medicine, 34(5), 557-562. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X19004783
Yu, X., Pendse, A., Slifko, S., Inman, A. G., Kong, P., & Knettel, B. A. (2019). Healthy people, healthy community: evaluation of a train-the-trainers programme for community health workers on water, sanitation and hygiene in rural Haiti. Health Education Journal, 78(8), 931-945. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896919853850
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