Capstone Project: Preliminary Literature Review & Action System Checklist

Literature Review & Action Item Checklist: Is eradication of measles feasible?
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Eradication of Measles
Since it was first diagnosed, measles has been of great concern across the globe. However, the disease brought together numerous international health organizations in 2000 after over 700, 000 fatalities were reported across the world in order to work towards eradicating this disease CITATION Wor18 \l 1033 (World Health Organization, 2018). As such, several factors were discussed in the fight to eradicate measles from the face of the earth including biological feasibility, availability of high quality vaccines, operational feasibility, scale and cost-effectiveness of resources, political and financial commitments among interested nations as well as strength and synergy of health programs across the world CITATION Wal07 \l 1033 (Orenstein, Hinman, & Strebel, 2007). This paper essentially presents a comprehensive review of available literature in order to support the premise that it is utterly possible to eradicate measles from the face of the world should the aforementioned factors be considered to the latter.
Literature Review
Biological feasibility
The biological feasibility of any program that seeks to eradicate measles should be determined by relevant task forces and authorities involved. The main importance of considering biological feasibility is to involve themselves with pragmatic actions towards achieving set objectives as far as eradicating measles is concerned. According to Moss and Strebel, eradicating measles is biologically feasible because of the fact that there is exists no known nonhuman reservoir and that there are numerous available accurate diagnostic tests including the immunogenicity and effectiveness of attenuated measles vaccinations CITATION Wil11 \l 1033 (Moss & Strebel, 2011). This is indeed in agreement with many experts who concur with the three major biological criteria for eradicating any disease. These criteria demand that any program initiated to effectively eradicate diseases should meet the biological feasibility criterion, which is based on three different criteria that consider humans to be the only reservoir that holds the pathogens, prevailing accurate diagnostic tests, and the existence of a cost-effective pragmatic intervention CITATION Wil11 \l 1033 (Moss & Strebel, 2011). These criteria ought to be considered in order to ensure that the program is both practically possible and achievable with minimum setbacks.
Operational feasibility
Operational feasibility of program refers to the ability of a program aimed at eradicating measles to withstand operational challenges. Notably, it is supported by accurate data related to the eradication of measles in several selected boroughs. For instance, while trying to assess the feasibility of eradicating measles, the World Health Organization Secretariat conducted a detailed autonomous technical inquiry into the different facets of the feasibility of eliminating measles and found out that results and findings, as well as recommendations related to operational feasibility, is crucially important as unraveled in lessons learned from various initiatives of eradicating polio CITATION Wo...