A national infrastructure plan for the NHS, social care, and public health is needed to build resilience for the future

Since March 2020 in Australia, there has been decisive national, and state and territory policy as well as community led action involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as information about COVID-19 arose. This has resulted in, what could only be framed as a success story in self-determination. However, there continues to be issues with the quality of data used for the surveillance and reporting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the pandemic. This article discusses some of the important events in pandemic planning regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and how this relates to surveillance and monitoring in the emerging and ongoing threat of COVID-19 within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The authors also identify some of the data considerations required in the future to monitor and address public health.

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Back to the Future: Rebuilding Public Health Infrastructure

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/j.1748-720x.2004.tb00176.x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 32 (S4) ◽

pp. 13-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Georges C. Benjamin

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Public Health Infrastructure ◽

Health Infrastructure ◽

The Future

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Preparedness 3.0: Addressing the Future

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2015.138 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 728-729 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Georges C. Benjamin

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Climate Change ◽

Social Media ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

Extreme Weather ◽

Common Occurrence ◽

Public Health Preparedness ◽

Public Health Emergencies ◽

State Sponsorship ◽

The Future

ABSTRACTThe last 14 years has taught us that that we are facing a new reality; a reality in which public health emergencies are a common occurrence. Today, we live in a world with dangerous people without state sponsorship who are an enormous threat to our safety; one where emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are waiting to break out; a world where the benefits of globalization in trade, transportation, and social media brings threats to our communities faster and with a greater risk than ever before. Even climate change has entered into the preparedness equation, bringing with it the forces of nature in the form of extreme weather and its complications. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:728–729)

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Rheumatic Fever, Nursing Care in Pictures

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.3.5.734 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 3 (5) ◽

pp. 734-734

Author(s):

HUGH MCCULLOCH

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Rheumatic Fever ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Social Care ◽

The Public ◽

Fever Patient ◽

Full Activity ◽

Visiting Nurse

This has been written primarily for parents to supplement the services of the public health or visiting nurse in the home of a family with a rheumatic fever patient. It shows through the text and through many photographs, the course of an 11 year old child with rheumatic fever; first in bed at rest, then the successive stages of recovery back to full activity, pointing out the physical, emotional, mental and social care needed at these stages. The photographs are excellent and illustrate the application of the written material in the text.

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