Zika Virus Intervention Model: A Case Study

Approaching the owner’s noncompliance to appropriately maintain the property require an effective stepwise intervention strategy. The intervention may start by few organizers that represent the public housing residents to empower the residents about the probability of acquiring Zika virus infection, recruiting Freire’s empowerment theory to inform the residents about the risks that Zika virus carry to the pregnant women and their offspring with the possibility of having birth defects. The organizers may initiate this step by asking one of the residents with a medical profession to give a speech about Zika risks in any social gathering like an open house event, the events not necessary to be large and can start with a small group to spread the awareness, printing papers about Zika virus threats can be hanged to each apartment’s door to give some idea about the disease and its possible ways of transmission. The aforementioned steps will empower the residents and trigger them to start the social action. The social action suggested by Alinsky can be used as the next step, it is an effective way to make a pressure on the lot owner to maintain the
It can introduce the problem to the public audience through a television show or a media interview with the public health in-charge. Introducing the issue in the local media with its possible public health hazards can motivate the stakeholders and politicians. The stakeholders can present the problem to the local public health authority to generate public health policy that commit any owner to maintain any water reservoir and apply financial penalties for anyone violation. The politicians can use their political power and positions to intervene and put their pressure towards generating the public health