Assessment Title: Emergency Response Plan: Community Engagement and Mobilization Strategy. Special Note : Lecturer has chosen diseases outbreak as "COVID-19", and emergency response plan should be...

Running Head: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND MOBILIZATION STRATEGY    1
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND MOBILIZATION STRATEGY        8
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND MOBILIZATION STRATEGY IN COVID-19 OUTBREAK
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Development of appropriate model of heath emergency preparedness    3
Involvement of community in COVID-19outbreak………………………………………….4
Engagement and consultation:    5
Participation:    5
Organisation:………………………………………………………………………………6
Action:…………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Conclusion    7
References    8
Introduction
    The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was prevalent in almost all nations of the world in small or larger way. It has spread very rapidly amongst all the nations and sooner taken a toll to affect the people’s lives in various ways while being fatal to the elderly population and the children as a whole. As supported by Hiscott et al. (2020), COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation 11th March, 2020 and many countries have resorted to follow policies like home quarantine and social distancing in order to stop the virus from spreading. It has brought a deep impact on the lifestyles of almost every individuals by changing the education technologies in resorting to online education for children, change in work culture for the working populations by resorting to online mode of working and lastly many people in losing their jobs in various sectors. However, the greater impact is on the professionals of medical, government-rule implementars, police force who are related directly with the task of saving the people from the COVID-19 crisis. In their fight against the COVID-19, if they are properly and strategically supported by the communities of people through their well-planning and agreement to most of the government led policies in practising the norms related to healthcare in COVID-19 while coming up with better ideas regarding the same will be extremely helpful for the entire nation and then, the world as a whole.
Development of appropriate model of heath emergency preparedness
According to Chang et al (2020), the creation of an agent-based model was improvised for the issue of COVID-19 which described the current COVID-19 pandemic occurrence in Australia in the form of a computational simulation model. After the creation of such, it was prepared to replicate the main features of the physiognomies of COVID-19 spread amongst the population. The regulation of this was an important outcome which was the relation of age to the symptomatic cases of COVID-19 and in this the major fraction is that of the children found to be one-fifth of such segment for adults. Hence, children can be considered to be more vulnerable. There were several interposition policies compared to the model which included seperations of individuals by constraints on the international air travel, isolation of people, home quarantine, social distancing with varying levels of acquiescence and closures of schools and other such workplaces with public gatherings. However, the closure of the schools has led to much hamper in the education systems and therefore had to be resorted otherwise through the compulsory online education for all student, combined with high level of social distancing amenableness. Many other such trade-offs occured as a result in this case but the practice of these norms had ultimately helped in bringing about an important transition across the levels of social...