Emerging Public Health Concern and Air Pollution: A Case Study of Delhi’s Air Pollution Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3&4) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
Garima . ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern

scholarly journals The Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Infection and Mortality—A Review on Recent Evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurshad Ali ◽  
Farjana Islam
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Nitrogen Dioxide ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The World ◽  
Harmful Effects

The outbreak of COVID-19 has created a serious public health concern worldwide. Although, most of the regions around the globe have been affected by COVID-19 infections; some regions are more badly affected in terms of infections and fatality rates than others. The exact reasons for such variations are not clear yet. This review discussed the possible effects of air pollution on COVID-19 infections and mortality based on some recent evidence. The findings of most studies reviewed here demonstrate that both short-term and long-term exposure to air pollution especially PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) may contribute significantly to higher rates of COVID-19 infections and mortalities with a lesser extent also PM10. A significant correlation has been found between air pollution and COVID-19 infections and mortality in some countries in the world. The available data also indicate that exposure to air pollution may influence COVID-19 transmission. Moreover, exposure to air pollution may increase vulnerability and have harmful effects on the prognosis of patients affected by COVID-19 infections. Further research should be conducted considering some potential confounders such as age and pre-existing medical conditions along with exposure to NO2, PM2.5 and other air pollutants to confirm their detrimental effects on mortalities from COVID-19.

Air pollution and asthma: how can a public health concern inform the care of individual patients?

2014 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle L. North ◽  
Neil E. Alexis ◽  
Anne K. Ellis ◽  
Chris Carlsten
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern

scholarly journals Using an Adapted Case Study Approach to Understand Rural Veteran Experiences in Patient Engagement and Patient-Centered Care Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara A. Zamora ◽  
Traci H. Abraham ◽  
Christopher J. Koenig ◽  
Coleen C. Hill ◽  
Jeffrey M. Pyne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Patient Engagement ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Study Approach

How to best engage rural veterans in mental health care is challenging and a topic of public health concern. Rural-dwelling veterans experience greater mental health burden and poorer outcomes than their urban counterparts, making rural veteran engagement in mental health care a public health concern. In this article, we describe how institutional notions of “patient engagement” align with or diverge from rural veteran patient experiences of engagement in mental health care. Using an adapted case study approach developed for our study, we detail the mental health care experiences of three rural-dwelling veteran participants. These case studies illustrate varied forms of mental health care engagement, including use of community resources and self-management activities, that might not be recognized by clinicians as contributing to mental health treatment. Our findings highlight how critical gaps in institutional definitions of care engagement fail to acknowledge veterans’ experiences.

scholarly journals The stunted child with an overweight mother as a growing public health concern in resource-poor environments: a case study from Guatemala

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen M. Doak ◽  
Maiza Campos Ponce ◽  
Marieke Vossenaar ◽  
Noel W. Solomons
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Resource Poor

scholarly journals Local-Scale Genotype Diversity of Yersinia Pestis: A Case Study from Ambohitromby, Ankazobe District (2003-2016), Madagascar

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beza Ramasindrazana ◽  
Mamionah N. J. Parany ◽  
Fanohinjanaharinirina Rasoamalala ◽  
Mercia Rasoanoro ◽  
Soloandry Rahajandraibe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Yersinia Pestis ◽  
Human Case ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Central Laboratory ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
New Genotype ◽  
Different Strains

Abstract BackgroundPlague is still a major public health concern in Madagascar despite the effort to reduce human cases and understand its epidemiology. In several localities known as plague foci, human cases are reported but the origin of the infection is most on the time unknown. In the present study, we report the presence of different genotypes of Yersinia pestis co-occurring in the same locality.MethodsHuman case was sampled in October 2016 and sent to the Central Laboratory for Plague for confirmation. Further, we undertook small mammal sampling to identify the circulation of plague in reservoirs. Isolated strains from human case, rodents as well as some archived strains from the same locality were combined with previously published strains to document the genotype of circulating strains. Further, blood sample from rodents were collected for seroprevalence analysis. Results In 2016, two different strains of Y. pestis from a human case and a reservoir circulated concurrently in the Ambohitromby commune (Ankazobe District) based on plague investigation. One type had been persisting there for more than 10 years but at least one other type may have been recently introduced. Seroprevalence of plague in rodents indicates that portion of the local murine population may resist to plague. These findings have implications for plague public health investigations and surveillance in Madagascar. Multiple distinct types of Y. pestis were circulating concurrently in the Ambohitromby commune (Ankazobe District) in Madagascar. Three strains genotype are now documented in Ambohitromby with the strain isolated in rats being a new genotype which is probably new to this locality or unobserved in previous years.

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Evans ◽  
Charlotte Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption: the ESAC programme

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Antimicrobial Consumption ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Major Public Health Concern

Resistance to antimicrobials has become a major public health concern, and it has been shown that there is a relationship, albeit complex, between antimicrobial resistance and consumption

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