Prevention, Treatment and Control

How can the spread of infectious diseases be controlled?

 

investigate and analyse the wide range of interrelated factors involved in limiting local, regional and global spread of a named infectious disease

 
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investigate procedures that can be employed to prevent the spread of disease, including but not limited to: (ACSBL124)

  • hygiene practices

  • quarantine

  • vaccination, including passive and active immunity (ACSBL100, ACSBL123)

  • public health campaigns

  • use of pesticides

  • genetic engineering

 

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investigate and assess the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals as treatment strategies for the control of infectious disease, for example:

  • antivirals

  • antibiotics

 
 

investigate and evaluate environmental management and quarantine methods used to control an epidemic or pandemic

 
 

interpret data relating to the incidence and prevalence of infectious disease in populations, for example:

  • mobility of individuals and the portion that are immune or immunised (ACSBL124, ACSBL125)

  • Malaria or Dengue Fever in South East Asia

 
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Our World in Data - Malaria

https://ourworldindata.org/malaria

 

evaluate historical, culturally diverse and current strategies to predict and control the spread of disease (ACSBL125)

 
 

investigate the contemporary application of Aboriginal protocols in the development of particular medicines and biological materials in Australia and how recognition and protection of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property is important, for example:

  • bush medicine

  • smoke bush in Western Australia

 
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1) Tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia)

Bundjalung Aboriginal people from the coast of New South Wales crushed tea-tree (or paper bark) leaves and applied the paste to wounds as well as brewing it to a kind of tea for throat ailments. In the 1920s, scientific experiments proved that the tea-tree oil’s antiseptic potency was far stronger than the commonly used antiseptic of the time. Since then, the oil has been used to treat everything from fungal infections of the toenails to acne.

2) Eucalyptus oil (Eucalyptus sp.)

Eucalyptus leaves can be infused for body pains and fevers and chills. Today the oil is used commercially in mouthwash, throat lozenges and cough suppressants.]

https://www.nacc.com.au/top-10-aboriginal-bush-medicines/