Homeopathy: a preventive approach to medicine?

By applying the principle of therapeutic similarity, homeopathy seeks to stimulate the organism to react against its own disturbs. For homeopathic medicines to awaken effective homeostasis responses they must be individualized, this means that they must be chosen according to their similarity to the set of characteristic symptoms in patients. In this way, by aiming at decreasing individual susceptibility predisposing to disease, homeopathic medicines have healing and preventive effects in many human illnesses. On the other hand, homeopathic medicines may have specific indications in the treatment and prevention of epidemic diseases provided they are also chosen according to the particular set of symptoms peculiar to a given epidemic, viz. the so-called “epidemic genius”, as historical examples show. This update paper discusses the epistemological foundations of Hahnemann’s homeopathy as a preventive medical approach, the scientific evidences supporting its clinical application and the minimum requirements to employ it both therapeutically and preventively in epidemics.

Penerapan Metode Design Thinking Pada Model Perancangan Animasi Periklanan Digital Pencegahan Covid-19

Abstrak: Sejak awal ditemukannya wabah COVID-19 di Indonesia, pemerintah telah melakukan berbagai upaya dalam rangka mencegah penyebaran COVID-19 di antaranya membuat beberapa kebijakan baru dengan upaya preventif dan upaya reaktif. Salah satu upaya preventif yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah adalah dengan menggunakan imbauan yang berisi promosi pencegahan penyebaran COVID-19. Pemerintah dibantu oleh kalangan masyarakat sering memberikan imbauan kampanye pencegahan penyebaran COVID-19, salah satunya adalah penggunaan media animasi digital. Media ini yang banyak ditemukan dalam situs-situs umum sehingga mempermudah penyampaian kepada masyarakat yang meluas. Perancangan yang digunakan menggunakan metode design thinking yang terdiri dari tahapan empathize, define, ideate, prototype dan test. Penggunaan metode design thinking diharapkan dapat digunakan secara efektif untuk merancang animasi digital sehingga promosi pencegahan penyebaran virus COVID-19 dapat menjadi lebih terstruktur dan sistematis. Hasil dari perancangan ini memberikan rekomendasi berupa model animasi digital promosi sebagai layanan masyarakat untuk pencegahan virus Covid-19 dengan menggunakan aplikasi Google Web Designer. Menggunakan dasar tersebut dapat disimpulkan metode design thinking memungkinkan desainer dalam pengumpulan berbagai informasi mengenai permasalahan yang ada sehingga mampu mengembangkan gagasan serta membuat alternatif desain dalam berinovasi. Kata Kunci: perancangan; animasi digital; COVID-19; design thinking, Abstract: When COVID-19 pandemics was first found in Indonesia, the government has taken several measures to contain further spread of COVID-19 pandemic, including by taking some preventive and reactive measures. One of the preventive measures taken by the government is to appeal the public by promoting preventive approach to contain the spread of COVID-19. The government in collaboration with the community has often given campaign appeals to prevent the spread of COVID-19, to use digital animation advertisements. This Media are often found in public sites can facilitate delivery to the wider community. This design uses design thinking method which consists of empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test. The use of the design thinking method is expected to be used effectively to design digital animations so that the promotion of preventing the spread of the COVID-19 virus can be more structured and systematic. The result of this design provide recommendations in the form of digital animation model as a public service for the prevention of the Covid-19 virus by using the Google Web Designer application.With this basis, they can acquire a design thinking method that allows designers to gather various information about existing problems so that they are able to develop ideas and create design alternatives in terms of design. Keywords: design; digital animation; COVID-19; design thinking

Exploring Socio-Economic Impact of Chikungunya Fever in Dhaka: A Statistical Modeling Approach

The study mainly focused on the socio-economic impact rather than the biological significance of Chikungunya fever in Dhaka city. The socio-economic impact had been measured mainly upon family cost and absence in the working place. It had been investigated whether a percentage of monthly family income spend on monthly expenditure changes due to Chikungunya incidence. Also, another inquiry was made about the productivity of the respondents, which had been measured by the number of absences in working place. The study considered primary data of 272 affected and 272 unaffected respondents from Dhaka city and found no significant association of family cost with Chikungunya incidence but the loss of productivity turned out as statistically significant. Another important objective was to explore potential determinants of Chikungunya. It is found that some patients use no preventive approach, while the majority use mosquito nets as a preventive approach. The respondents suggest themselves mostly to keep the drain free from blockage, regular changing water from plant containers, and use mosquito repellent and net. They seek from the government mostly to provide regular mosquito spray, develop drainage systems, and remove blocked water sources. Chikungunya has no direct economic impact on a family. But, as it affects productivity, it affects the national economy to a great extent.

The Consequences of Disdainful Hook-Ups for Later Egalitarian Relationships of Girls

Introduction: There is extensive research about the consequences that toxic relationships with dominant masculinities have on different areas of women’s lives, including how they can influence future relationships they establish. Some of these women reproduce toxic relationships with dominant masculinities in their following relationships, and some women start to establish sexual-affective relationships with non-dominant masculinity models. However, less is known about the specific consequences in non-dominant masculinities who establish relationships with women who have not overcome the false memory of excitement regarding their toxic relationships. Methodology: In order to shed light on the consequences for non-dominant masculinities, eight communicative interviews were conducted with four women and four men. Results: The main findings indicate that those female participants who have kept an exciting memory of toxic relationships, when in an equal relationship, have attitudes of disdain towards non-dominant masculinities. They may ridicule them, not value their personal or intellectual abilities, talk down to them, and even negatively value their sexual aptitudes. Discussion: The application of the previous literature to our results leads to establishing the work on memories of relationships that have led to socialization in violent relationships as a preventive approach. Conclusion: The previously mentioned attitudes could generate health problems for non-dominant masculinities engaged in these relationships.

MODEL PENGENDALIAN SOSIAL PREVENTIF DALAM MENANGANI PENYIMPANGAN PERILAKU WISATAWAN MANCANEGARA DI KABUPATEN BADUNG

Deviations in the behavior of foreign tourists often occur in Badung Regency. Forms of deviant behavior include aggressive behavior, behavior against authority, disrespectful behavior and stupid behavior. The need for a preventive social control effort in anticipating the occurrence of deviations in the behavior of foreign tourists in the future. Determination of informants using purposive sampling and snowball sampling. Data collection is done by observation, interviews, literature study, and documentation. Data analysis techniques using qualitative analysis with the creditability test and the dependability test. The discussion resulted in a model of the construction display framework of preventive social control in Badung Regency, which was formed based on facts or the phenomenon of behavior deviations that often occur. In the introduction of the forms of deviant behavior of foreign tourists there are 4 forms and have a total of 17 behaviors and the total forms of such deviations require social control with a preventive approach. In the preventive approach there are 10 ways that can control foreign tourists to deviate. The role of tourism stakeholders (local communities, government and tourism entrepreneurs) is needed to distribute Do's and Don't's in Bali brochures. The brochure will later contain supporting pictures or illustrations to attract the reader's interest, understand the meaning in each sentence. Preventive social control material by dividing 3 material is presented, namely: Do's in Bali, Do's in Bali, and Why in Bali. After the mechanism for distributing brochures is carried out by stakeholders and there is still a deviation of tourist behavior, the next stage of violators will be subject to sanctions.