Curtailing Covid-19 on a Dollar-a-Day in Malawi: Role of Community Leadership for Shaping Public Health and Economic Responses to the Pandemic

The emergence in China of 2019 of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus2 (SARS-CoV-2) previously provisionally names 2019-nCoV disease (COVID19) caused major global outbreak and is a major public health problem. On 30 January 2020, the WHO declared COVID19 to be the sixth international public health emergency. This present pandemic has engrossed the globe with a high rate of mortality. As a front line practitioner, physiotherapists are expected to be getting in direct contact with patients infected with the virus. That’s why it is necessary for understanding the many aspects of their role in the identification, contains, reduces and treats the symptoms of this disease. The main presentation is the involvement of respiratory system with symptoms like fever, cough, sore throat, sneezing and characteristics of pneumonia leads to ARDS(Acute respiratory distress syndrome) also land up in multiorgan dysfunction syndrome. This text describes and suggests physiotherapy management of acute COVID-19 patients. It also includes recommendations and guidelines for physiotherapy planning and management. It also covers the guidelines regarding personal care and equipment used for treatment which can be used in the treatment of acute adult patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.

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Anticipating on a post covid-19 world and the pivotal role of science and technology

Coronaviruses ◽

10.2174/2666796701999201116121451 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 01 ◽

Author(s):

Saeed Khan ◽

Tusha Sharma ◽

Basu Dev Banerjee ◽

Scotty Branch ◽

Shea Harrelson

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Pivotal Role ◽

Public Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Outbreak Management ◽

The Public ◽

Public Health Crisis ◽

Future Outbreak

: Currently, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has transformed into a severe public health crisis and wreaking havoc worldwide. The ongoing pandemic has exposed the public healthcare system's weaknesses and highlighted the urgent need for investments in scientific programs and policies. A comprehensive program utilizing the science and technologydriven strategies combined with well-resourced healthcare organizations appears to be essential for current and future outbreak management.

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The Origins of Human Rights in Global Health

10.1093/oso/9780190672676.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lawrence O. Gostin ◽

Benjamin Mason Meier

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Human Rights ◽

World War Ii ◽

Global Health ◽

International Law ◽

Right To Health ◽

Right To Health Care ◽

Global Standards ◽

The Right

This chapter introduces the foundational importance of human rights for global health, providing a theoretical basis for the edited volume by laying out the role of human rights under international law as a normative basis for public health. By addressing public health harms as human rights violations, international law has offered global standards by which to frame government responsibilities and evaluate health practices, providing legal accountability in global health policy. The authors trace the historical foundations for understanding the development of human rights and the role of human rights in protecting and promoting health since the end of World War II and the birth of the United Nations. Examining the development of human rights under international law, the authors introduce the right to health as an encompassing right to health care and underlying determinants of health, exploring this right alongside other “health-related human rights.”

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Defending Lawsuits

10.1093/oso/9780190681050.003.0020 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Scott Burris ◽

Micah L. Berman ◽

Matthew Penn, and ◽

Tara Ramanathan Holiday

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Federal Government ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Health Law ◽

Tobacco Company ◽

Amicus Curiae ◽

Health Organizations ◽

Public Health Organizations ◽

Health Laws

Chapter 20 explores the strategic reasons why entities may challenge public health laws, and uses the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. FDA case to walk through the steps of a legal challenge to a public health law. The chapter also identifies the attorneys involved in defending public health laws on behalf of local, state, and federal government entities and explains how legal technical assistance from public health organizations can support their efforts. Finally, the chapter defines the role of amicus curiae briefs and how they may effectively contribute to the defense of public health laws and regulations.

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Doing Tricks

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.20 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rodrigo Borba

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Sex Work ◽

Language Use ◽

Sex Industry ◽

Commercial Sex ◽

Business Transaction ◽

Methodological Challenges ◽

Social Scientific

Sex work has long been of interest to a variety of fields, among them anthropology, sociology, public health, and feminist theory, to name but a few. However, with very few exceptions, sociolinguistics seems to have ignored the fact that commercial sex, as an intersubjective business transaction, is primarily negotiated in embodied linguistic interaction. By reviewing publications in distinct social scientific areas that directly or indirectly discuss the role of language in the sex industry, this chapter critically assesses the analytical affordances and methodological challenges for a sociolinguistics of sex work. It does so by discussing the “tricks” played by sex work, as a power-infused context of language use in which issues of agency (or lack thereof) are paramount, on sociolinguistic theory and methods. The chapter concludes that the study of language in commercial sex venues is sociolinguistically promising and epistemologically timely.

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Crisis and Water Services: How a 2007 Public Health Emergency in Finland Helped Shape Its Response to COVID-19

Public Works Management & Policy ◽

10.1177/1087724x20969159 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 63-70

Author(s):

Tapio S. Katko ◽

Jarmo J. Hukka

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Engineering Education ◽

Well Being ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

Environmental Engineering ◽

Clean Water ◽

Water Services ◽

Sanitation Services ◽

Sound Management

This paper aims at shedding light on the significance of water epidemics and their potential positive impacts on improving preparedness in water and sanitation services. We explore the water epidemic of Nokia in 2007 and preparedness-related reactions since then. The corona case confirms the fundamental role of clean water for well-being in communities, the need for sound management of water services to proactively promote public health, as well as the need for expanding conventional water and environmental engineering education and research to offer more holistic views.

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