Community Health Course
MDC-BSN
You were asked to watch the movie
Contagion. This week your assignment is to answer the following questions using
APA format. This assignment is due by Saturday March 8th at 8am,
EST.
1.
Did the CDC play a role in the
movie? If so, what was there role? What
is the CDC’s role for our Nation? Be sure to include primary role of the CDC
2.
What is a Pandemic and Name
three pandemic that have affected our Nations health?
3.
Is there a role for Public
Health Nurses in the movie? If so, what was it?
4.
Track one disease online and
discuss what countries have been affected by it, what countries have not been
affected by it and why? (Where any implementations established to protect the
people of this country?)
5.
How did the disease start? (How
was it spread?)
6.
Explain in your own words, what
the author means when she says “Medicine has become a team sport and public
health even more so.”
7.
Speaking about Ethics, where
there any ethical implications debated in the movie? If so, describe.
8.
Explain how social media has
impacted the dissemination of health information to the public.
Read the following and answer questions
related to it:
When
Hollywood turns to medicine, accuracy generally heads for the hills. But the
creators of the new action thriller “Contagion” went to unprecedented lengths
to fact-check their story of a destructive viral pandemic, retaining a panel of
nationally renowned virologist and epidemiologists as consultants. The intent
was to infuse the usual hyperbole with an extra frisson: This is the way it
could really happen. Still, the whole thing is an improbably caricature, with
100 action-packed Hollywood minutes veering far from reality. You can still be
very afraid if you want, if a contagious apocalypse happens to be your thing. But
it’s not going to happen this way (Zuger,
2012).
9.
Explain Dr. Zuger’s opinion
about how realistic “Contagion” is when it comes to portraying how a pandemic
might play out on a global scale.
10.
Describe some of the ways in
which the movie “Contagion” incorporated actual events or facts about
contagious diseases into its storyline.
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