scholarly journals Employing medical anthropology approach as an additional public health strategy in promoting COVID‐19 vaccine acceptance in Bhutan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Christopher N. Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Vaccine Acceptance ◽  
Health Strategy

scholarly journals Adoption of local public health plan for better health and quality of life in Belgrade

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
G Tamburkovski ◽  
G Belamarić ◽  
D Matijević ◽  
S Mladenović Janković
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Plan ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Public Health Planning ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Public Health Plan ◽  
The City

Abstract Issue Development of public health plan for the City of Belgrade, facilitate multisectoral participation and encourage local government to incorporate public health planning into integrated planning framework, including funding. Description of the Problem According to Public Health Low, adopted in Serbia in 2016 and Public health strategy (2018), Council for Health, as a professional body of the City government, was obliged to prepare draft of the Plan. Members of the City Council are representatives from different sectors: health care, public health, private sector, child care, education and civil society. Based on data and information from relevant institutions and organizations, situation analysis and health profile of the City have been prepared during 2018. Results Public health plan for the City of Belgrade has been drafted for a time period from 2020 to 2026, aligned and within time frame of the National public health strategy. Plan included: mission, vision, objectives, activities, responsible institutions, funding sources and indicators for monitoring. Focus was on health promotion and empowerment of citizens to adopt healthy lifestyle as well on investment in environmental sustainability, poverty and inequalities reduction and minimizing risks to human health and well-being. On December 2019, Belgrade City Assembly adopted this document, with full responsibility for implementation and budgeting specific programs and projects from 2020. Lessons Multisectoral working group, with clear defined scope of work, supported by regulations, encouraged and managed by experts in the field, highly motivated to be creator of changes is prerequisite for successful and productive public health planning process. Key messages Public health planning enabled communication and cooperation among experts and decision makers and represented a whole-of-local government approach to public health. Document is used as a resource and model for the other cities and municipalities.

scholarly journals Staple crops biofortified with increased vitamins and minerals: considerations for a public health strategy

2016 ◽  
Vol 1390 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal ◽  
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas ◽  
Boitshepo Giyose ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Staple Crops

Consultancy in a national strategy

2013 ◽  
pp. 474-481
Author(s):  
Charles Guest
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Creation

This chapter introduces the steps for developing a public health strategy. It should assist you to play a constructive role as a public health consultant, working closely with government officials, policy advisers, and other stakeholders in the creation of a major strategy.

scholarly journals COVID-19 apps in Singapore and Australia: reimagining healthy nations with digital technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 177 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Proximity Data ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
Interesting Class

Widely and intensively used digital technologies have been an important feature of international responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. One especially interesting class of such technologies are dedicated contact and tracing apps collecting proximity data via the Bluetooth technology. In this article, I consider the development, deployment and imagined uses of apps in two countries: Singapore, a pioneer in the field, with its TraceTogether app, and Australia, a country that adapted Singapore’s app, devising its own COVIDSafe, as key to its national public health strategy early in the crisis. What is especially interesting about these cases is the privacy concerns the apps raised, and how these are dealt with in each country, also the ways in which each nation reimagines its immediate social future and health approach via such an app.

scholarly journals Antivirals for treatment and prevention of human seasonal influenza

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Clayton Chiu ◽  
Robert Booy ◽  
Dominic E Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Seasonal Influenza ◽  
Human Influenza ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Risk Population ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Seasonal Epidemic

While immunisation is the primary public health strategy for prevention of influenza, antivirals are important complementary measures for controlling seasonal/epidemic human influenza, especially when there is a mismatch between circulating and vaccine strains and in at-risk population groups.

scholarly journals Mistrust and inconsistency during COVID-19: considerations for resource allocation guidelines that prioritise healthcare workers

2020 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-106801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander T M Cheung ◽  
Brendan Parent
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Standards Of Care ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Outward Appearance ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Usa

As the USA contends with another surge in COVID-19 cases, hospitals may soon need to answer the unresolved question of who lives and dies when ventilator demand exceeds supply. Although most triage policies in the USA have seemingly converged on the use of clinical need and benefit as primary criteria for prioritisation, significant differences exist between institutions in how to assign priority to patients with identical medical prognoses: the so-called ‘tie-breaker’ situations. In particular, one’s status as a frontline healthcare worker (HCW) has been a proposed criterion for prioritisation in the event of a tie. This article outlines two major grounds for reconsidering HCW prioritisation. The first recognises trust as an indispensable element of clinical care and mistrust as a hindrance to any public health strategy against the virus, thus raising concerns about the outward appearance of favouritism. The second considers the ways in which proponents of HCW prioritisation deviate from the very ‘ethics frameworks’ that often preface triage policies and serve to guide resource allocation—a rhetorical strategy that may undermine the very ethical foundations on which triage policies stand. By appealing to trust and consistency, we re-examine existing arguments in favour of HCW prioritisation and provide a more tenable justification for adjudicating on tie-breaker events during crisis standards of care.

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