Government Policies in Various Sectors

One essential aspect of health is the implementation of public health policies as they assist in curtailing the spread of infectious diseases by exploring the avenues which may transmit the disease as well as enhancing the health of the people or given population. These include;

-Vaccination Programs: The vast vaccination programs, aimed at providing herd immunity against measles, polio and flu as well as other diseases.
-Sanitation and Hygiene: By providing access to clean water, proper sanitation and hygiene to prevent the transmission of water and faeces related diseases.
-Development of Surveillance and Monitoring: Building up of appropriate control and monitoring systems to keep trace of infectious disease outbreaks and therefore initiate control measures early enough.
-Diseases Control through Isolation/Quarantine: Containment or control of outbreak of infections through quarantine and isolation of the identified infected persons.
-Health Policy’s Contextualization: Introduce health policies seeking to coordinate national practices on health, within a global spectrum, to avoid any possibilities of trans-boundary diseases.
-Public Health Education: Awareness campaigns to the public on management of the disease, its prevention, and the administration of the vaccines.

With respect to enhancing Nation’s health policy, certain strategies for improvement include the following;

-Strength of Health Systems: Preparedness and response by strengthening the health system components of infrastructure, human resources and research.
-Intersectoral Collaboration: Build relationships between the health sector and those responsible for social determinants of health including education and work in order to promote equity and lessen health differences.
-Empowerment of Communities: Enhancing their involvement, where they are encouraged to take an active role in policy formulation concerning health and actual health practices, where they stand to gain.
-Policy Change: Sustaining the present scientific knowledge and modifying them when necessary to cope with new communicable diseases and resistance to antimicrobial agents.

– Equity Focused: Equipping every individual with the necessary health services and resources without regard to their location or social class.

This may be particularly true regarding the burden of infectious diseases which can be greatly reduced through the introduction of adequate public health measures and controlling the socioeconomic conditions which promote the disease.