Instructions: You will be acting as a relief worker for a new public health clinic opening in sub-Saharan Africa to help combat communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Address the following in your paper:

  1. Determine the major communicable and non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
  2. Assess the challenges to prevention, transmission, and treatment of communicable diseases.
  3. Evaluate the risk factors for the burden of non-communicable diseases.
  4. Investigate the costs to the population for both communicable and non-communicable diseases.
  5. What is needed to prepare a public health employee for working in this kind of environment?