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 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.

References

Cambaza, E., Mongo, E., Anapakala, E., Nhambire, R., Singo, J., & Machava, E. (2019). Outbreak of cholera due to cyclone Kenneth in northern Mozambique, 2019. International journal of environmental research and…