scholarly journals COVID19 and the city; from the short term to the long term

2020 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 110066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Keyword(s):  
Short Term ◽  
The City

Changes in Hospitalization for Ischemic Heart Disease After the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: 10 Years of Data in a Population of 300,000

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaisen Huang ◽  
Dejia Huang ◽  
Dingxiu He ◽  
Joris van Loenhout ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Ischemic Heart Disease ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Ischemic Heart ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Sichuan Earthquake ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Incidence Of Hospitalization ◽  
The City

AbstractObjectiveThe effects of earthquakes on ischemic heart disease (IHD) have often been reported. At a population level, this study examined short-term (60-day) and long-term (5-year) hospitalization events for IHD after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.MethodsWe examined the 10-year medical hospitalization records on IHD in the city of Deyang provided by the Urban Employee Basic Health Insurance program.ResultsEvaluation of 19,083 hospitalizations showed a significantly lower proportional number and cost of hospitalizations in the 60 days after the earthquake (P<0.001). Hospitalizations were 27.81% lower than would have been expected in a normal year; costs were 32.53% lower. However, in the 5 years after the earthquake, the age-adjusted annual incidence of hospitalization increased significantly (P<0.001). In the fifth year after the earthquake, it was significantly higher in the extremely hard-hit area than in the hard-hit area (P<0.01).ConclusionAfter the 2008 earthquake, short- and long-term patterns of hospitalization for IHD changed greatly, but in different ways. Our findings suggest that medical resources for IHD should be distributed dynamically over time after an earthquake. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:203–210)

scholarly journals Anxiety and Depression in Patients Hospitalized With Chronic Kidney Disease in Barranquilla Clinics, Colombia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Carmen A. Sierra Llamas ◽  
Rafael E. Donado Castillo ◽  
Gustavo Aroca ◽  
Santos Ángel Depine ◽  
Gladys Gaviria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of anxiety and depression in patients aged between 18 and 70 years, hospitalized with chronic kidney disease in a clinic entity of the city of Barranquilla. The type of research is descriptive, presenting the information through the indicators and statistical tables, the Hospital Scale of Anxiety and Depression of, Zigmond &amp; Smith (1983), which evaluates the detection of depressive and anxious disorders in the non-psychiatric hospital context. The application of the Scale was performed in the hospital entity of the city of Barranquilla to 50 patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. The results they are beneficial in the short term, because they create new research proposals applied to another population group diagnosed with chronic diseases, especially for the evaluation and intervention in the area of health psychology. In the long term, new theories, methods of intervention and evaluation applied to the population of patients with chronic kidney disease will be studied. In the same way, the results show marked trends related to depression, an aspect that is consistent with the deterioration that affects the individual in the course of the disease and also show a positive correlation of the study variables, depression and anxiety disorders in patients with CKD can be due to a symptomatology or consequence of psychological burnout.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 7118-7124
Author(s):  
Mrs. Aparna Lalitkumar Patil Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Production Logistics ◽  
Chain System ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Supply Chain Risks ◽  
The City

In early January 2020, coronavirus outbreak started to build up as a pandemic in the city of Wuhan in China, leading to social, human as well as economic disturbance, leaving no life untouched. COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic impacted the production, logistics as well as the supply chain system in the entire world.  As companies, around the globe are trying to repair their shattered value chains in the short-term and reduce their supply chain risks in the long-term, India also has an exclusive chance to emerge as a business terminus during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Groundwater delivery rate of nitrate and predicted change in nitrate concentration in Blue Lake, South Australia

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (7) ◽  
pp. 1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Lamontagne
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
Balance Model ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Blue Lake ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The City ◽  
Groundwater Outflow ◽  
Drinking Water Guideline

Blue Lake, the principal water supply for the City of Mount Gambier (South Australia), is contaminated with nitrate (NO3–) from polluted groundwater. Using existing data, a study was undertaken to determine the past load of NO3– from groundwater entering the lake and to forecast future trends in lake NO3– concentration. Groundwater NO3– loads for the 1971–1997 period were estimated with an inverse model, which combined the long-term record for NO3– concentration in the lake with a simple NO3– mass-balance. Model results show that the load of NO3– from groundwater (18–24 metric tons (t) year–1 as N) was by far the largest source to Blue Lake between 1971 and 1997. Sinks for NO3– included pumping withdrawal (10–14 t year–1), in-lake consumption (7–10 t year–1), and groundwater outflow (0–1.8 t year–1). The NO3– concentration in incoming groundwater (4–7 mg N L–1) appears to have increased slowly but steadily during the 1971–1997 period (at a rate varying between 0.037 and 0.070 mg N L–1 year–1). By assuming that the rate of increase in groundwater NO3– concentration will remain constant, a forecast for lakewater NO3– concentration was made for the 1998–2028 period. Lakewater NO3– concentration should increase from the contemporary ~3.5 mg N L–1 to 4 or 5 mg N L–1 by 2028. In the short term (decades), the rate of pumping withdrawal will be the main determinant of NO3– concentration in the lake through its impact on the rate of groundwater inflow and the lake water residence time. Although the drinking water guideline for NO3– (11. 3 mg N L–1) may not be exceeded in the short term (decades), it may be exceeded in the longer term (centuries) as NO3– concentration in the neighbouring aquifer adjusts to the contemporary land use.

scholarly journals NATURE AND THE CITY: A CO-EVOLUTIONARY PROJECT

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir Younés
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Gaia Theory ◽  
The City

Architects who understand the need to build enduringly are faced with the almost complete absence of international agreements with respect to a planetary ecological project. The coming environmental changes will probably occur long before the small measures that can be implemented by some building industries on a regional level have even the slightest effect. Meanwhile, the health of the planet in positive feedback. Any project that aims for a wise ecological dwelling on this planet needs to consider short-term sustainable measures in comparison with long-term enduring practices. Might schools of thoughts such as traditional architecture, Gaia theory, Earth System Science, deep ecology, eco-feminism, converge on a co-evolutionary partnership between the natural and the human?

scholarly journals Utopian disjunctures: Popular democracy and the communal state in urban Venezuela

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Organisations ◽  
The City

This article examines the Venezuelan government’s efforts to establish a ‘communal state’ through the eyes of working-class chavista activists in the city of Valencia. It argues that the attempt to incorporate grassroots community organisations into a state-managed model of popular democracy produces a series of ‘utopian disjunctures’ for the actors involved. These disjunctures, the article contends, stem from conflicting political temporalities within the chavista project, as long-term aspirations of radical democracy clash with more short-term demands to obtain state resources and consolidate the government’s power. The case highlights the tensions generated by efforts to reconcile radical democratic experiments with left-nationalist electoral politics.

scholarly journals Economic Increase and Concentration of Economics Activities in Secondary Markets in Cotonou: From 2013 to 2016

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. p172
Author(s):  
Hortensia Vicentia ACACHA-ACAKPO
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Secondary Markets ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Effect

Accelerating municipal revenues is very important for good decentralization. In Benin, despite the difficulties, the municipality of Cotonou is trying to put in place mechanisms to significantly improve its income. Thus, this research aims to analyze the impact of the concentration of economic activities on the increase in non-revenue taxation in the city of Cotonou specifically on secondary markets from 2013 to 2016. Results from an estimate of an ARDL model show that, in the short term, market rights and revenues from public latrines have a positive impact on non-tax revenues. The effect of place rights on the market is not significant, while revenues from the operation of public latrines have a significant impact on non-tax revenues. In the long term, the study reveals that marketing rights have a positive effect on non-tax revenues, but not in a very significant way. Revenues from the operation of public latrines, on the other hand, still have a positive impact on non-tax revenues. It is therefore urgent to find adequate answers since marketing rights and public infrastructure revenues must be the driving force behind the growth of non-tax revenues and, in turn, total revenues.

scholarly journals The local help network to the homeless: case study of the city of koper, Slovenia

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Blaž Matija Geršak ◽  
Klara Praprotnik ◽  
Milan Krek
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Long Term Stability ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Abstract Aim: To present the work of professionals and volunteers of the local help network that revolves around trying to help the homeless and to stimulate readers to critically assess the possible methods aimed towards the successful integration of those people into society. Methods: In the city of Koper, we visited five governmental (GOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs): Red Cross Koper, Daybreak Association, Center for Social Work Koper, Diocesan Caritas Koper and Koper Prison; and interviewed 3-10 staff members at each organisation. Results: For each organisation, we described its duties and activities, including its interconnection with other organisations, methods of integrating the homeless into the society and the personal thoughts of its staff members. Conclusions: Both GOs and NGOs are necessary for providing effective assistance to people in need. NGOs excel at quickly responding to immediate needs. Their programs are usually implemented only as short-term resolutions. GOs on the other hand require a longer time to implement their concepts. Nonetheless, in contrast to NGO projects, they provide long-term stability. Even though people from remote parts of the society usually cooperate, the efforts of those who work with them are nothing short of exerting. They strive to achieve a general social acceptance of their ward population, which is the one thing those people need the most. Since only the society is truly capable of offering them a firm stepping stone towards escaping from the vicious circle in which they stray.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Informal Settlements - Implications for Water, Sanitation and Health in India and Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
priti parikh ◽  
Yasmin Bou Karim ◽  
Jacob Paulose ◽  
Professor Pam Factor-Litvak ◽  
Dr. Emily Nix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Hand Washing ◽  
High Population ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Informal settlements are home to over one billion people worldwide and are characterised by high population densities and poor environmental conditions. The authors identify the impact of COVID-19 on existing water and sanitation practices and potential pathways for transmission of COVID-19 in informal settlements in India and Indonesia. In the short term, there is an urgent need for mobile hand washing, washing/bathing facilities and toilets. In the long term, COVID-19 provides an opportunity to invest in centralised water and sanitation networked solutions appropriated for high-density settings to integrate those settlements into the city, improve environmental conditions and health in cities.

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