Cruise Line Annual Reports for GI Illness
The purpose of Cruising Healthy Annual Reports for Cruise Lines is to 'guage' the overall performance of a cruise line's risk management plan for GI Illness over a series of one-year periods. Several factors that contribute to the effectiveness of a good risk management plan for GI Illness include: (1) the continuous monitoring of GI Illness metrics, (2) knowing exactly when the executive staff should institute proactive cleaning procedures in public areas for passenger and crew, and (3) most importantly, the timeliness and thoroughness of their procedures.
The very nature of GI Illness on cruise ships requires pubic health investigators from the cruise line to look at not only the potential causes of GI related diseases, but also the incidence, distribution, and control of these diseases in successive closed populations. Ultimately, the overall GI Illness performance of a cruise ship is up to the discipline and attitude towards health in the executive offices of the cruise line. Only then will the proper focus be placed upon minimizing GI Illness on the cruise ships they manage.
Because the Vessel Sanitation Program employees are so busy doing their jobs of bi-annual "in-dock" inspections, training, and new ship design reviews; very little of the VSP effort is dedicated to watching passenger and crew behaviors during a cruise, so it's up to the cruise lines to continually manage and implement their own plans on a moment's notice.
Annual Yellow Reports for Cruise Lines
Cruising Healthy Annual Yellow Reports for Cruise Lines contain those cruise lines that reside in the second to lowest category of GI incidence. Disease Strategies determines placement into each of four categories based on the overall health performance as reported by the ship medical officers to the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program. The information is then applied to the applicable cruise ship, cruise line, and embark cruise port for each voyage.
