scholarly journals Global assessment of environment, health and economic impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie ◽  
Phebe Asantewaa Owusu
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

AbstractThe institution of social distancing and punitive measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 through human-to-human transmission has environmental, health and economic impact. While the global pandemic has led to the enhancement of the health system and decline of emissions, economic development appears deteriorating. Here, we present the global environmental, health and economic dimension of the effect of COVID-19 using qualitative and empirical assessments. We report the health system policies, environmental sustainability issues, and fiscal, monetary and exchange rate measures introduced during lockdown across countries. While air pollution is reported to have declined, municipal and medical waste is increasing. The COVID-19 global pandemic uncertainty ranks the UK as the country with the highest uncertainty level among 143 countries. The USA has introduced 100% of pre-COVID-19 crisis level GDP, the highest policy cut-rate among 162 countries. Science, innovation, research and development underpin COVID-19 containment measures implemented across countries. Our study demonstrates the need for future research to focus on environment-health-economic nexus—a trilemma that has a potential trade-off.

Current Trends and Future Strategies for the Global Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronaviruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Chauhan ◽  
Ankit Kumar ◽  
Sandeep Goyal ◽  
Sunil Kumar Joshi ◽  
Deepak Kumar Semwal
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Preclinical Trials ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Treatment Procedures

ABSTRACT: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) might have originated from the recombination of a Pangolin-CoV-like virus with a Bat-CoV-RaTG13-like virus and then transmitted to the human at Wuhan city of China. On February 11, 2020, the WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus disease as COVID-19. Finally, the WHO declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Within a few months, SARS-CoV-2 had spread across the world in 220 Countries, areas or territories. The main objective of this work is to review the existing knowledge about COVID-19, its updated status, available treatment procedures and future challenges. The available literature based on the COVID-19 was thoroughly reviewed and concise evidence-based information was explored for the public interest. Various authentic databases like PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar together with the official sites of some Govt. Organizations were carefully searched for all relevant information about the current status of COVID-19 including the published research on coronavirus. More than 68 million people are already infected including around 20% severely ill with almost 1.5 million casualties due to this virus and expected to infect approximate 70% population worldwide. Currently, maximum confirmed cases and death are reported in the USA. The epicentre of the pandemic was initially shifted from China to Europe then to the USA, Brazil and now India. In between, understanding of pathogenesis and mode of transmission has been developed; repurposing drugs are being validated and development of a new vaccine is underway. The study concludes that there is no established treatment available for COVID-19, although 26 clinical and 139 preclinical trials are underway to develop vaccines globally. Although three vaccines are in advance stage of development, their efficacy and adverse effect yet to be validated and recorded. Recently, Pfizer vaccine has been started vaccination for emergency uses in England and Bahrain, and the United State of America will start it soon. Meanwhile, prevention, rigorous global containment and quarantine efforts are practiced worldwide to control its spread.

Impacts of botanic gardens: economic, social, environmental, and health.

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Richard W. Benfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
The Usa ◽  
African Plants ◽  
Social Environmental

Abstract This chapter focuses on the economic impacts of gardens, presenting examples of regional economic impacts of gardens in the USA, UK and New Zealand. As important, the chapter also highlights the environmental, health, and social benefits of gardens in an era of environmental sustainability, and social justice. Case studies are presented of (1) the cultural benefits of Glenstone (USA), (2) the economic impact of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden (South Australia), and (3) the Missouri Botanical Garden as a center for the study of African plants.

scholarly journals Emergence of the first manic episode in recovered COVID-19 patients: A case series from Egypt

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayam M. Elgohary ◽  
Mohammad G. Sehlo ◽  
Usama M. Youssef ◽  
Mohamed Abdelghani
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Gastrointestinal Symptoms ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Manic Episode ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Manic Symptoms ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Abstract Objective In December 2019, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection was first reported in Wuhan city, China, which had rapidly spread as a global pandemic. This infection was commonly presented by respiratory and /or gastrointestinal symptoms. However, it is still unclear whether COVID-19 infection could be associated with central nervous system (CNS) damage which would result in development of neuropsychiatric symptoms. Method A total of five cases of suddenly emerged manic episodes during the pandemic of COVID-19 were extensively described. We presented the symptoms and described the diagnosis, clinical course, and treatment of each case. Results All patients had positive findings of ribonucleic acid (RNA) tests for COVID-19 in specimens of their sputum. The patients later developed manic symptoms during and after the recovering period of their illness. Conclusions The case series of newly emerged manic symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection highlights the essential need for evaluation of mental health status and would contribute to our understanding of the potential risk of CNS affection by COVID-19 infection. The limited number of cases would limit the generalizability of association. Future research should investigate the behavioral changes accompanying and following COVID-19 infection.

scholarly journals Global research trends in coronavirus disease 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thai Thanh Tran ◽  
Luu Thanh Pham
Keyword(s):  
Research Trends ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Global Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Global Research

Introduction: The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing global epidemic incident. The present study aims to bibliometrically analyze the global research trends of scientific papers related to COVID-19 with regard to the number of publications, subject categories, and prolific countries. A total of 47,061 publications, published during the last seven months, were collected and analyzed in this study. Methods: The bibliometric data in this study, which was extracted from the LitCovid Hub from January 17 to July 31, 2020. Results: Our results indicate that the number of publications on COVID-19 has increased significantly from January to July 2020, along with the rapid spread of the infection. China has produced the largest number of research papers on COVID-19 (5,751 articles, accounting for 12.2%), followed by the USA (2,005 publications, accounting for 4.3%) and Italy (1,374 publications, accounting for 2.9%). Most recent research papers have focused on prevention, treatment, and diagnosis. Our results reveal that although the most affected countries are the USA, Brazil, India, and many countries in Europe, their contribution to research about COVID-19 has been limited. Conclusion: More research in the field of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment from highly affected countries is recommended. Overall, this study not only provides a global status update on COVID-19 scientific literature but also contributes to future research.

A Language-independent Network to Analyze the Impact of COVID-19 on the World via Sentiment Analysis

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Ashima Yadav ◽  
Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma
Keyword(s):  
Sentiment Classification ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
The People ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

Towards the end of 2019, Wuhan experienced an outbreak of novel coronavirus, which soon spread worldwide, resulting in a deadly pandemic that infected millions of people around the globe. The public health agencies followed many strategies to counter the fatal virus. However, the virus severely affected the lives of the people. In this paper, we study the sentiments of people from the top five worst affected countries by the virus, namely the USA, Brazil, India, Russia, and South Africa. We propose a deep language-independent Multilevel Attention-based Conv-BiGRU network (MACBiG-Net) , which includes embedding layer, word-level encoded attention, and sentence-level encoded attention mechanisms to extract the positive, negative, and neutral sentiments. The network captures the subtle cues in a document by focusing on the local characteristics of text along with the past and future context information for the sentiment classification. We further develop a COVID-19 Sentiment Dataset by crawling the tweets from Twitter and applying topic modeling to extract the hidden thematic structure of the document. The classification results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves an accuracy of 85%, which is higher than other well-known algorithms for sentiment classification. The findings show that the topics which evoked positive sentiments were related to frontline workers, entertainment, motivation, and spending quality time with family. The negative sentiments were related to socio-economic factors like racial injustice, unemployment rates, fake news, and deaths. Finally, this study provides feedback to the government and health professionals to handle future outbreaks and highlight future research directions for scientists and researchers.

scholarly journals Transformation of Saudi Arabia’s Health System and Its Impact on Population Health: What Can the USA Learn?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yuchi Young ◽  
Amani Alharthy ◽  
Akiko S. Hosler
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health System ◽  
Healthcare Spending ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Life Expectancy At Birth ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

<b><i>Objective:</i></b> The objective of this study was to describe the historic transformation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) health system and analyze the impact of transformation on selected health outcomes in KSA. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Secondary data from the following standard repositories were compiled for analysis: WHO, UN, UNICEF, and the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health. The 6-part WHO health system framework was used to structure the analysis. The USA was chosen as a comparator country because KSA and the USA are both high-income OECD countries with predominantly Western-trained physicians and similar health outcomes, yet the 2 nations diverge in 2 important ways: the KSA is a single payer, and its percent GDP healthcare spending is one-half that of the USA. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Life expectancy at birth increased nearly 30 years (from 45.6 years in 1960 to 74.9 years in 2019) among KSA citizens, narrowing the gap with the USA, which gained 8.7 years, from 69.8 to 78.5, during the same period. KSA had identical infant mortality to the USA (2/1,000 live births in both countries) and lower maternal mortality rates (17 vs. 23/100,000 live births) than the USA. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> The rapid improvement of selected health outcomes in KSA may be attributable to improved access to care provided by the universal healthcare system. Healthcare spending in the USA is 18% GDP, nearly twice that of KSA (9.2% GDP), yet important health outcomes are largely indistinguishable. Future research should evaluate which elements of the KSA system might inform improvements to decentralized systems in the USA.

Impacts of botanic gardens: economic, social, environmental, and health.

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Richard W. Benfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
The Usa ◽  
African Plants ◽  
Social Environmental

Abstract This chapter focuses on the economic impacts of gardens, presenting examples of regional economic impacts of gardens in the USA, UK and New Zealand. As important, the chapter also highlights the environmental, health, and social benefits of gardens in an era of environmental sustainability, and social justice. Case studies are presented of (1) the cultural benefits of Glenstone (USA), (2) the economic impact of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden (South Australia), and (3) the Missouri Botanical Garden as a center for the study of African plants.

Jordan’s Public Health and Surveillance Health Policies: During and After COVID-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raeda AlQutob ◽  
Musa Taha Ajlouni ◽  
Mohamed Majed Abu Farraj ◽  
Immanuel Azaad Moonesar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Financing ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

UNSTRUCTURED In contemporary times, the wave of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) classified by the World Health Organisation as global pandemic has unravelled systems and processes including health, economic and social. In the case of the Kingdom of Jordan, the COVID-19 crisis illustrated for the need and ability of the policy making institutions and ministries to take many effective policies, initiatives and procedures that were met with marked approval as the opinion polls conducted by government and private institutions showed. The success of these interventions during the crisis calls upon the country’s health system to take advantage of this experience in the next stage of recovery and resilience to develop, maintain its sustainability, as well as the improvement of a number of hubs to assist the Kingdom in facing the challenges resulting from any future health crisis such as epidemics or natural disasters. The viewpoint interventions that are the most paramount given the current situation as public health evidence must inform activities in seven priority health system areas to manage during and after the pandemic includes factors on: (1) governance and management; (2) service delivery and research; (3) human resources; (4) health information systems; (5) technology and medicine; (6) health financing; and (7) citizens, refugees and communities.

Observations of the Possible Influence of Andragogy on the Economies of World Nations

2013 ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Henschke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Positive Perspective

Andragogy has received mixed reviews in the past. Some have analyzed it from a positive perspective. Some have analyzed it from a negative perspective, and some have ignored it altogether. Very little if any effort has been devoted to researching the economic impact of andragogy, especially during this prolonged economic downturn in the USA, in addition to many other countries throughout the world. This chapter looks at the theories undergirding the author’s practice of andragogy, eras of the scope of various writings in English concerning andragogy, economic implications of his application of andragogy, and his thoughts about future research trends in andragogy.

Synthetic and semi-synthetic drugs as promising therapeutic option for the treatment of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekta Shirbhate ◽  
Preeti Patel ◽  
Vijay K Patel ◽  
Ravichandran Veerasamy ◽  
Prabodh C Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Option ◽  
Antiviral Treatment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Synthetic Compounds ◽  
Synthetic Drugs ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

: The novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), a global pandemic that emerged from Wuhan, China has today travelled all around the world, so far 216 countries or territories with 21,732,472 people infected and 770,866 deaths globally (as per WHO COVID-19 update dated August 18, 2020). Continuous efforts are being made to repurpose the existing drugs and develop vaccines for combating this infection. Despite, to date, no certified antiviral treatment or vaccine prevails. Although, few candidates have displayed their efficacy in in vitro studies and are being repurposed for COVID-19 treatment. This article summarizes synthetic and semi-synthetic compounds displaying potent activity in their clinical experiences or studies against COVID-19 and also focuses on mode of action of drugs being repositioned against COVID-19.

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