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Prior to watch the movie Contagion. The full version of this movie is available for rent through Google Play, Netflix, YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon.com for $3.99 or less. This movie is about a contagious disease outbreak. Then, respond to your classmates post below depending upon there group:

•  Review the policies that they pointed out from the movie and their additional policy. Provide a look at how these policies helped or did not help, and make at least one suggestion for an improvement

Infectious and Chronic Diseases

1. Examine at least two policies that were enacted by the CDC that attempted to help the situation and their effectiveness.
2. Explain one additional policy that you would have enacted if you had been in charge of mitigating this epidemic. How would it differ from a policy to mitigate a chronic disease?

• The two policies that were enacted by the CDC that attempted to help the situation was isolation and quarantine. Isolation and quarantine as described by the CDC , " help protect the public by preventing exposure to people who have or may have a contagious disease. Isolation separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick. Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick"(CDC,2014). The two policies were enacted in hope to control the outbreak as much as possible till the CDC and affiliates would be able to research the situation and begin to form a plan to sustain and fight the outbreak. The effectiveness of isolation and quarantine in the film initially had little to no effect but I feel that was because there was not enough information about the cause of the outbreak. Once proper public information was made and policies of social distancing , isolation and quarantine helped slow down the spread then it would if citizens would interact with each other.

• The one additional policy that I would have enacted if I have been in charge of mitigating the epidemic would create a mandated registration. Similar to how within the film citizens received a wristband when they received the vaccine, I would require citizens to be seen by medical physicians able to diagnosis the disease and confirm there whereabouts, whom they had contact with and where they have been. My reason for the mandated intake is to create the forward action of those closer to the outbreak to bring themselves forward to help identify possible outbreak outlets. It would differ from a policy that mitigates a chronic disease in the fact that a pandemic can spread so fast effect so many so quickly with fatal consequences. The one comparison I see is that the healthcare community can develop health policy briefs that can serve as identification of health concerns of many just as we now see with the scare of vaping. As described, "Translating health communication for a policy focused audience ensures that our voice is heard and we remain engaged in shaping our future" ,(Wong, Green, Bazemore, Miller, 2017). A health policy brief is important to the communication of issues in healthcare