scholarly journals THE NURSES AS HEALTHCARE WARRIORS IN COVID-19: PUBLIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Gitumoni Konwar ◽  
Ms. Urmijyoti Deori
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
World Health ◽  
Independent Practice ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Health Organization

The year 2020 is announced as “the year of the Nurses and midwives” by the World Health Organization to commemorate 200-year birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. The declaration has given true sense by the outbreak of novel CORONA virus since the beginning of the year. The nurses are the frontline fighters against COVID-19 to save the humankind. They put their lives at risk and perform their duties and responsibilities round the clock towards the community, public health and hygiene. Nurses have been showing the act of heroism, be it during the wars, epidemics and at times of disasters such as Covid-19. Nurses are facing many challenges in carrying out their duties and one of the biggest challenges is shortage of nurses, due to which they are overloaded with work. Nurses play a crucial role in the healthcare delivery system and nursing services has a great impact on health outcome of patients and public. The nurses are the backbone of the healthcare services. The nurses play a vital role towards the improvement of public health and hygiene with their independent practice. There is incredible scope to utilize the qualified nurses in public health and hygiene in developing countries like India to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of community dwellers. The emphasis must be given in utilization of the professional nurses in the public health sector. KEY WORDS: Nurses, COVID-19, challenges, Independent role and public health perspective.

scholarly journals The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2 (WHODAS 2.0): remarks on the need to revise the WHODAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamyr Castro ◽  
Camila Ferreira Leite ◽  
Michaela Coenen ◽  
Cassia Maria Buchalla
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Whodas 2.0 ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Functioning Assessment

Functioning and disability are concepts in increasing use in clinical settings and in public health. From the public health perspective, the use of functioning as a third health indicator could show more than the frequency of a disease and its death rates, offering information on how the population performs its activities and participation. Clinically, the functioning assessment can provide information for patient-centered health care and specific clinical interventions according to their functioning profile. WHODAS 2.0 is a generic tool to assess health and functioning according to the ICF functioning model. It is an alternative to assess functioning in a less time-consuming way, whereas the duration of the application is one of the main ICF critiques. This paper aims to present some of WHODAS 2.0 inconsistencies and weaknesses as well as strategies to cope with them. In this paper, we present some weaknesses related to the WHODAS layout; wording and scoring process. Some suggestions for strategies to correct these weaknesses are presented, as well.

scholarly journals Progress of COVID-19 Epidemic in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 154-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadijah Abid ◽  
Yashfika Abdul Bari ◽  
Maryam Younas ◽  
Sehar Tahir Javaid ◽  
Abira Imran
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Shed Light

The outbreak of corona virus initiated as pneumonia of unknown cause in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, which has been now spreading rapidly out of Wuhan to other countries. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus outbreak as the sixth public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), and on March 11, 2020, the WHO announced coronavirus as pandemic. Coronavirus is thought to be increasing in Pakistan. The first case of coronavirus was reported from Karachi on February 26, 2020, with estimated populace of Pakistan as 204.65 million. Successively, the virus spreads into various regions nationwide and has currently become an epidemic. The WHO has warned Pakistan that the country could encounter great challenge against the outbreak of coronavirus in the coming days. This short communication is conducted to shed light on the epidemic of coronavirus in the country. It would aid in emphasizing the up-to-date situation in a nutshell and the measures taken by the health sector of Pakistan to abate the risk of communication.

Hepatitis C elimination in Pakistan is a distant dream unless government controls the health sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Arshad Altaf ◽  
Safdar Kamal Pasha
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
The Government

Abstract The World Health Organisation (WHO) has set an ambitious target to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) by 2030. Pakistan is one of the focused countries because of the high prevalence of HCV. The prices of direct-acting antiviral drugs(DAA)have significantly reduced to between 11-25 dollars for a month’s treatment. To achieve the 2030 elimination target, Pakistan has to provide treatment to one million HCV-infected patients every year, beginning from 2018. This short report highlights a key barrier to achieve this target,i.e. the unsafe practices by regulated and unregulated healthcare delivery system comprising trained and untrained healthcare providers who can continue to churn out new patients with their unsafe healthcare practices and increase the possibility of re-infection in those who have been treated. Only the government has the power and authority to regulate and control the healthcare delivery system. Continuous...  

scholarly journals Towards a Shariah Compliance Model for Healthcare Centres with reference to Spiritual Healers: Issues and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramizah Wan Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Healthcare Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Spiritual Healers

Generally, a good healthcare centre comprises of qualified manpower, right policies and right procedures in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care for the patients as well as in public health. Other than manpower, healthcare centres must also look at social, religious and cultural factors affecting the recipients of the healthcare services given by the healthcare centres. In this paper, the author will look at some pertinent issues such as the need to have spiritual healers in any healthcare centre to help the patients in dealing with fatal illness. The spiritual healer is to help the patient and give him motivation so that he could have a positive mind throughout his journey in battling with his illness. Sometimes we have patients who refused to listen to the doctor's advice. Thus, the role of the spiritual healer would be important in assisting the healthcare centres and its management to convince him. Another issue is the privacy, respect and trust between patients and doctors as well as with the management of the healthcare centres. One of the duties of the healthcare centres’ management and doctors is, to respect the patient's religion and his faith. These three issues are amongst the important issues which every healthcare centre must look upon. Definitely there are a lot of challenges in addressing the above mentioned issues such as the procedures, methods on how to execute these issues and most importantly the perception of the public. In Islam, health care is one of the five important elements in which the Prophet SAW has mentioned in one hadith to be taken care of. A study has shown that a nation-building efforts has no meaningwithout the best public health and healthcare delivery system to the people.

scholarly journals EXPLAINABLE-BY-DESIGN APPROACH FOR COVID-19 CLASSIFICATION VIA CT-SCAN

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Plamen Angelov ◽  
Eduardo Soares
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ct Scan ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
World Health ◽  
Statistical Accuracy ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Timely Treatment

AbstractThe COVID-19 disease has widely spread all over the world since the beginning of 2020. On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency. At the time of writing this paper the number of infected about 2 million people worldwide and took over 125,000 lives, the advanced public health systems of European countries as well as of USA were overwhelmed. In this paper, we propose an eXplainable Deep Learning approach to detect COVID-19 from computer tomography (CT) - Scan images. The rapid detection of any COVID-19 case is of supreme importance to ensure timely treatment. From a public health perspective, rapid patient isolation is also extremely important to curtail the rapid spread of the disease. From this point of view the proposed method offers an easy to use and understand tool to the front-line medics. It is of huge importance not only the statistical accuracy and other measures, but also the ability to understand and interpret how the decision was made. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is able to surpass the other published results which were using standard Deep Neural Network in terms of performance. Moreover, it produce highly interpretable results which may be helpful for the early detection of the disease by specialists.

Public/Private Partnerships in the Public Health Sector

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Luca Burci
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
International Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health Cooperation

AbstractThis article reviews and analyses the growing phenomenon of public-private partnerships in the field of international public health cooperation (PPPs). This trend has been led by the changing political dynamics surrounding international health issues as well as by the perception of the inadequacy of market mechanisms and the inability of existing international institutions for tackling pressing health problems in developing countries. The article analyses in particular the remarkable developments in international health governance that PPPs have ushered in as well as the role played and the challenges faced by the World Health Organization.

scholarly journals Disease Outbreak Surge Response: How a Singapore Tertiary Hospital Converted a Multi-story Carpark Into a Flu Screening Area to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeevan Raaj Thangayah ◽  
Kenneth Boon Kiat Tan ◽  
Chin Siah Lim ◽  
Tzay-Ping Fua
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), first documented in December 2019, was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on January 30, 2020 (https://www.who.int/westernpacific/emergencies/covid-19). The disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, has affected more than 9 million people and contributed to at least 490,000 deaths globally as of June 2020, with numbers on the rise (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries). Increased numbers of patients seeking medical attention during disease outbreaks can overwhelm healthcare facilities, hence requiring an equivalent response from healthcare services. Surge capacity is a concept that has not only been defined as the “ability to respond to a sudden increase in patient care demands” (Hick et al., Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2008;2:S51-S57) but also to “effectively and rapidly expand capacity” (Watson et al., Milbank Q. 2013;91(1):78-122). This narrative review discusses how Singapore’s largest tertiary hospital has encapsulated the elements of surge capability and transformed a peacetime multi-story carpark into a flu screening area in response to the COVID-19 disease outbreak.

scholarly journals Local Initiatives In Preventing Coronavirus Based On Health Policy Perceptive

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dumilah Ayuningtyas ◽  
Misnaniarti Misnaniarti ◽  
Siti Khodijah Parinduri ◽  
Fitria Aryani Susanti ◽  
Ni Nyoman Dwi Sutrisnawati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Local Initiative ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract. World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Coronavirus 2019-2020 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Local transmission of this disease occurs in almost every country around the world. Likewise, in Indonesia, Covid-19 cases have spread to all 34 provinces. This study aims to analyze the local initiative in handling Covid-19 based on the public health perspective in Indonesia. It is based on time, the form of activity, the type of response, and the contribution of local initiatives. This study used secondary data from various media sources and articles on the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia and community assistance as the keywords. The study used 31 news found in media sources from 34 provinces in Indonesia. Handling Covid-19 has become a concern for the government and the public. The government is implementing physical distancing as a way to handle Coronavirus. For the local community, it is in the form of local initiatives by educating the community, fulfilling PPE, supporting infrastructure facilities, crowdfunding carried out personally or in groups, and doing prevention by wearing masks and doing self-quarantine. Various elements of society have played a role and participated in the movement to eradicate the Coronavirus. Cross-sectoral coordination needs to be intensified for the implementation of comprehensive efforts.

scholarly journals Violence a global public health problem

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Dahlberg ◽  
Etienne G. Krug
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
World Health ◽  
General Description ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

This article is a version of the Introduction to the World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO). It presents a general description about this phenomenon and points some basic questions: concepts and definitions about the theme; the state of knowledge about it; nature and typology on violence; proposal of a quantitative and qualitative approach of an ecological model; responsibilities and functions of the public health sector and its potentiality to prevent and reduce violence in the world; the responsibilities of the nations and the policy makers in a intersetorial point of view; difficulties and obstacles for actuation and challenges for the health sector.

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