WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’S GLOBAL ACTION PLAN ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE TO DEMENTIA 2017-2025

In 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched the global action plan on the public health response to dementia. Among its many aims, the plan recommends the need to create a knowledge-based healthcare profession that delivers evidence-based, culturally-appropriate and human rights-orientated health and social care, including long-term services for individuals with dementia.

Directrices sobre la respuesta de salud pública a la farmacorresistencia del VIH previa al tratamiento. Julio 2017

10.37774/9789275320594 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Drug Resistance ◽

World Health Organization ◽

World Health ◽

Public Health Response ◽

The Public ◽

Health Response ◽

Las Mujeres ◽

Health Organization ◽

América Del Sur

En la presente publicación se formulan orientaciones sobre la respuesta de salud pública a la farmacorresistencia del VIH (FRVIH) a inhibidores no nucleosídicos de la retrotranscriptasa (INNRT), previa al tratamiento, en personas con exposición previa a los fármacos antirretrovirales (ARV) o sin antecedente de esta exposición que inician o reinician un tratamiento antirretroviral (TAR) de primera línea. El documento aporta además el consenso alcanzado sobre la prevalencia o el umbral de FRVIH a INNRT previa al tratamiento a partir de los cuales se deben tomar medidas específicas de salud pública. La presente publicación constituye un suplemento al capítulo 4 de las Directrices unificadas sobre el uso de los antirretrovirales para el tratamiento y la prevención de la infección por el VIH (directrices unificadas de la OMS del 2016 sobre el uso de los ARV)… En la presente revisión se observó además que la FRVIH a INNRT previa al tratamiento era mucho más frecuente en las personas que iniciaban TAR de primera línea y que tenían un antecedente de exposición a fármacos ARV (como las mujeres expuestas durante la PTMI y las personas que reanudaban el TAR después de un período de interrupción) en comparación con las personas que iniciaban el TAR y que nunca habían estado expuestas a los ARV, en todas las regiones de la OMS. En las siete encuestas representativas a escala nacional sobre la FRVIH previa al tratamiento en África, América del Sur y Asia en las que se daba seguimiento a la resistencia en estos dos grupos se obtuvieron resultados similares. En todas las encuestas nacionales de la OMS sobre la FRVIH previa al tratamiento, la resistencia a INNRT fue notablemente mayor en las personas que iniciaban el TAR y que habían tenido una exposición previa al TAR (22%), que en las personas que nunca habían recibido fármacos ARV (8%) (p <0,0001)… Versión oficial en español de la obra original en inglés: Guidelines on the public health response to pretreatment HIV drug resistance: July 2017. © World Health Organization 2017. ISBN: 978-92-4-155005-5.

Preventing blindness and visual impairment in Europe: What do we have to do?

European Journal of Ophthalmology ◽

10.1177/1120672118819397 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 129-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

János Németh ◽

Gábor Tóth ◽

Serge Resnikoff ◽

Jan Tjeerd de Faber

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Visual Impairment ◽

Action Plan ◽

World Health ◽

Eye Health ◽

Common Task ◽

The World ◽

Global Action ◽

Significant Public Health ◽

Global Action Plan

Severe visual impairment and blindness are significant public health problems worldwide. Four-fifths of cases of blindness can be prevented or cured. The World Health organisation’s ‘Universal Eye Health: A Global Action Plan 2014–2019’ and the European Society of Ophthalmology’s Pilot Committee on Public Eye Health are aiming to decrease the prevalence of blindness in Europe and around the world. Starting discussions addressing possible actions and advocacies to improve current circumstances in public eye health is a common task of ophthalmologists and public health specialists in Europe.

Public health response to two incidents of confirmed MERS-CoV cases travelling on flights through London Heathrow Airport in 2014 – lessons learnt

Eurosurveillance ◽

10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.18.21114 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (18) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

F Parry-Ford ◽

N Boddington ◽

R Pebody ◽

N Phin ◽

Collective on behalf of the Incident Management Team

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

International Health ◽

The United States ◽

World Health ◽

Contact Tracing ◽

Public Health Response ◽

The Public ◽

Health Response ◽

Health Organization

In May 2014, Public Health England was alerted to two separate laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection who transited through London Heathrow Airport while symptomatic on flights from Saudi Arabia to the United States of America. We present the rationale for the public health response to both incidents, and report results of contact tracing. Following a risk assessment, passengers seated two seats around the cases were prioritised for contact tracing and a proactive media approach was used to alert all passengers on the planes of their possible exposure in both incidents. In total, 64 United Kingdom (UK) residents were successfully contacted, 14 of whom were sat in the priority area two seats all around the case(s). Five passengers reported respiratory symptoms within 14 days of the flight, but all tested were negative for MERS-CoV. Details of non-UK residents were passed on to relevant World Health Organization International Health Regulation focal points for follow-up, and no further cases were reported back. Different approaches were used to manage contact tracing for each flight due to variations in the quality and timeliness of the passenger contact information provided by the airlines involved. No evidence of symptomatic onward transmission was found.

Role of Media in Health Literacy

Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media - Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-6825-5.ch011 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 172-179

Author(s):

Seçil Özkan ◽

Hülya Şirin

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Literacy ◽

Good Health ◽

World Health ◽

Public Health Response ◽

The Public ◽

Health Gains ◽

Health Response ◽

The Media ◽

Health Organization

The World Health Organization defines health literacy as the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Health literacy improves the life expectancy and quality and removes health inequalities. Health literacy includes the stages of reading, listening, analyzing, participating, and making decisions and adapting to life. An infodemic is an overabundance of information. It includes deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of groups or individuals. Mis- or disinformation can be harmful to people's health, threaten precious health gains, and lead to poor observance of public health measures, thus endangering countries' ability to stop the pandemic. Media is one of the important sectors in health and health literacy. The concepts of infodemic became a current issue with the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed how important the role the media plays in intervening the health problems is.

Psychology's role in the public health response to assaultive violence among young African-American men.

American Psychologist ◽

10.1037/0003-066x.48.2.142 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 142-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 95

Author(s):

W. Rodney Hammond ◽

Betty Yung

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

African American ◽

African American Men ◽

Public Health Response ◽

The Public ◽

Health Response

Gender and the overdose crisis in North America: Moving past gender-neutral approaches in the public health response

International Journal of Drug Policy ◽

10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.05.002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 69 ◽

pp. 43-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Alexandra B. Collins ◽

Geoff Bardwell ◽

Ryan McNeil ◽

Jade Boyd

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

North America ◽

Public Health Response ◽

The Public ◽

Health Response ◽

Gender Neutral

Effect of COVID-19 on childhood Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Chengdu, China

BMC Pediatrics ◽

10.1186/s12887-021-02679-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ying Zhang ◽

Yijie Huang ◽

Tao Ai ◽

Jun Luo ◽

Hanmin Liu

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Mycoplasma Pneumoniae ◽

Close Contact ◽

Serum Antibody ◽

Pathogen Transmission ◽

Western China ◽

Public Health Response ◽

The Public ◽

Health Response ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a change in the incidence and transmission of respiratory pathogens was observed. Here, we retrospectively analyzed the impact of COVID-19 on the epidemiologic characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection among children in Chengdu, one of the largest cities of western China. Method M. pneumoniae infection was diagnosed in 33,345 pediatric patients with respiratory symptoms at the Chengdu Women’s & Children’s Central Hospital between January 2017 and December 2020, based on a serum antibody titer of ≥1:160 measured by the passive agglutination assay. Differences in infection rates were examined by sex, age, and temporal distribution. Results Two epidemic outbreaks occurred between October-December 2017 and April-December 2019, and two infection peaks were detected in the second and fourth quarters of 2017, 2018, and 2019. Due to the public health response to COVID-19, the number of positive M. pneumoniae cases significantly decreased in the second quarter of 2020. The number of M. pneumoniae infection among children aged 3–6 years was higher than that in other age groups. Conclusions Preschool children are more susceptible to M. pneumoniae infection and close contact appears to be the predominant factor favoring pathogen transmission. The public health response to COVID-19 can effectively control the transmission of M. pneumoniae.