Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
Keep it in the Community
Norfolk Cardiovascular Care Campaign Makes a Difference
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Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus is expected to spread quickly from person to person during the winter months. The National Pandemic Flu Service helpline was set up during the first wave of illness to provide information on how best to deal with influenza symptoms and in the most severe cases the antiviral Tamiflu has been prescribed, some have received Relenza instead. Community based pick-up centres allow friends and family to access medications for those who have contracted the virus.
The Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza has been put in place to help combat the spread of illness. Local health care providers will be working together to ensure that the Sussex community is prepared to distribute vaccine efficiently when the time arrives. The high risk groups who should receive the vaccine first include: pregnant women, health care and medical personnel, those between 25-64 years of age suffering from underlying respiratory or cardiovascular conditions.
West Sussex Primary Care Trust is taking measures to combine measures to prevent the spread of swine flu both through inoculation and use of antivirals. Understandably many of those living in the county are worried about the spread of the virus after the release of Government figures showing that up to 1,600 people in Sussex could die after contracting swine flu over the coming months.
Keep it in the Community
With such a large population in the UK and with so many tricky health requirements, it can be difficult to organise the provision of medical treatment. This is why healthcare needs to be well organised and those who need the treatment the most should be given fair and easy access to it when they need it.
A community healthcare project gets the medical services to those who need it and provides a friendly and approachable interface for members of the community to approach when they feel they need treatment. This makes the provision of health services much fairer and provides care to those that need it the most.
Some members of the community require a little more help than others. Some elderly community members may find it difficult or confusing when contacting their local healthcare services and thus will require a good level of guidance and support when doing so. (more...)
Norfolk Cardiovascular Care Campaign Makes a Difference
Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the UK. More than one in three residents will die from cardiovascular disease before the age of 75. How can we prevent heart disease? Projects like the Norfolk cardiovascular care campaign try to educate people about the dangers of the disease.
What you need to know? When it comes to heart disease there are some things you simply cannot address. If you come from a family with a history of the disease, then you may, unfortunately, be predisposed to the illness. Of course, this makes it doubly important that you avoid high risk behaviours.
For starters, don’t smoke! Study after study has shown that the chemicals in smoke damage the heart and blood vessels and may cause atherosclerosis, a narrowing of the blood vessels. Atherosclerosis is the number one cause of heart attacks. We also know that smoking robs the blood of oxygen, replacing it with carbon monoxide, which makes the heart work harder and puts strain on it. (more...)