scholarly journals Universal masking during COVID-19 pandemic: Can textile engineering help public health? Narrative review of the evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 106236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Beesoon ◽  
Nemeshwaree Behary ◽  
Anne Perwuelz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Health Narrative

scholarly journals Resilience as an object of study of occupational health: narrative review / Resiliência como objeto de estudo da saúde do trabalhador: uma revisão narrativa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 283
Author(s):  
Élissa Jôse Erhadt Rollemberg Cruz ◽  
Norma Valéria Dantas de Oliveira Souza ◽  
Luanna Klaren de Azevedo Amorim ◽  
Ariane Da Silva Pires ◽  
Francisco Gleidson de Azevedo Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Health Narrative

Objetivo: Analisar o uso do conceito de resiliência nos objetos de estudo da linha de pesquisa sobre Saúde do Trabalhador. Método: Revisão narrativa, desenvolvida nas bases eletrônicas de dados. Palavras de busca: resiliência e saúde do trabalhador. Não houve recorte temporal, mas optou-se por fazer restrição quanto ao idioma: somente produções em português e espanhol. Resultados: Captaram-se oito artigos, dentre os selecionados quatro possuíam textos completos, um estava em inglês e três encontravam-se em português, dos quais apenas dois relacionavam-se com o objeto de estudo. Conclusão: O estudo da resiliência é relativamente recente nas ciências humanas, sociais e da saúde, porém o conhecimento dos fatores relacionados à resiliência poderá fornecer subsídios aos trabalhadores para o entendimento dos determinantes e os fatores que podem fortalecer suas próprias resiliências. Descritores: Enfermagem, Saúde do trabalhador, Resiliência psicológica.

Exploring the Role of Enforcement in Promoting Adherence with Protective Behaviours During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freya Mills ◽  
Charles Symons ◽  
Holly Carter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Specific Barriers ◽  
Protective Behaviours

Purpose: To explore the conditions under which enforcement likely is, or is not, an effective strategy to increase adherence to recommended protective behaviours during COVID-19. Design/Methodology/Approach: Relevant search terms were entered into three key databases (Google Scholar, medXriv, psyArXiv) to identify both peer-reviewed and pre-publication articles that reported empirical data relating to the impact of enforcement on adherence with recommended public health behaviours. Findings: Enforcement is less effective when: it is applied inconsistently; rules are ambiguous; behaviours are unobservable. Providing food and financial support, creating social norms and increasing trust are more effective in addressing specific barriers and fostering voluntary adherence. Where enforcement forms part of the strategy for policing COVID-19 regulations, rules must be clear and local responders must be given time and opportunity to plan their response as new rules are implemented. Research limitations/implications: This narrative review was limited to papers published in English and available either via the databases searched, or via reference searching; some relevant studies may therefore not have been identified. Practical implications: Findings inform an understanding of the impact of enforcement on adherence and facilitate the development of recommendations for increasing adherence to protective behaviours during COVID-19. Given the importance of public adherence, these recommendations are not only useful in the context of COVID-19 but also for future public health emergencies. Originality/value: This narrative review is the first to explore the circumstances under which enforcement can increase or reduce adherence with COVID-19 guidelines, generating recommendations for improved public adherence.

A Narrative review of Myths on Natal and Neonatal Teeth in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Mike Eghosa Ogbeide
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Natal Teeth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
Erroneous Beliefs

Abstract Myths associated with neonatal and natal teeth (NNT) differ across different countries and cultures, ranging from beliefs of a magnificent future at one end, to that of serious misfortune at the opposite end. In Nigeria, the beliefs reported on NNT have been mostly negative and erroneous, with consequential effects of varying degrees ranging from anxiety by the affected child‘s mother and other members of the family to infanticide contemplation. The beliefs surrounding NNT, oftentimes, are handed down from generation to generation, and they are held in high esteem in many families. These erroneous beliefs need to be dispelled and the accurate information regarding NNT need to be passed to the people for public health benefits.

scholarly journals Is the time right for quantitative public health guidelines on sitting? A narrative review of sedentary behaviour research paradigms and findings

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 377-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Stamatakis ◽  
Ulf Ekelund ◽  
Ding Ding ◽  
Mark Hamer ◽  
Adrian E Bauman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sedentary Behaviour ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Sedentary Breaks

Sedentary behaviour (SB) has been proposed as an ‘independent’ risk factor for chronic disease risk, attracting much research and media attention. Many countries have included generic, non-quantitative reductions in SB in their public health guidelines and calls for quantitative SB targets are increasing. The aim of this narrative review is to critically evaluate key evidence areas relating to the development of guidance on sitting for adults. We carried out a non-systematic narrative evidence synthesis across seven key areas: (1) definition of SB, (2) independence of sitting from physical activity, (3) use of television viewing as a proxy of sitting, (4) interpretation of SB evidence, (5) evidence on ‘sedentary breaks’, (6) evidence on objectively measured sedentary SB and mortality and (7) dose response of sitting and mortality/cardiovascular disease. Despite research progress, we still know little about the independent detrimental health effects of sitting, and the possibility that sitting is mostly the inverse of physical activity remains. Unresolved issues include an unclear definition, inconsistencies between mechanistic and epidemiological studies, over-reliance on surrogate outcomes, a very weak epidemiological evidence base to support the inclusion of ‘sedentary breaks’ in guidelines, reliance on self-reported sitting measures, and misinterpretation of data whereby methodologically inconsistent associations are claimed to be strong evidence. In conclusion, public health guidance requires a consistent evidence base but this is lacking for SB. The development of quantitative SB guidance, using an underdeveloped evidence base, is premature; any further recommendations for sedentary behaviour require development of the evidence base and refinement of the research paradigms used in the field.

scholarly journals State of Public Health of Refuge Children Due to the Syrian War: A Narrative Review  

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Teymouri. F ◽  
Dabbagh Moghaddam. A ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Narrative Review

scholarly journals Types, Purposes And Simulation Of Contributions In Vocational Training In Health: Narrative Review

10.3823/2273 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fillipi André Dos Santos Silva ◽  
Soraya Maria De Medeiros ◽  
Raphael Raniere De Oliveira Costa ◽  
Marília Souto de Araújo ◽  
Marcella Alessandra Gabriel dos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Simulator Technology ◽  
Health Narrative ◽  
Education Process ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

Objective: To identify the types, purposes and the contributions of simulation in training in health. Method: This is a narrative review of the literature in its construction were used studies surveyed in databases Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) and Scopus, and other data sources. Results: The types of simulations and simulators are characterized by the degree of organization of landscape and simulator technology: low, medium and high fidelity. These degrees of fidelity enable the development of skills and abilities in students in the context of health education.  Conclusion: Considering the scope and possibilities of its use, the simulation can be a positive tool in health education process.  Descriptors: Education. Simulation. Health. Education. Formative feedback.

scholarly journals Ebola virus: A global public health menace: A narrative review

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 2189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shazina Saeed ◽  
Shamimul Hasan ◽  
SyedAnsar Ahmad ◽  
Rahnuma Masood
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Global Public Health

scholarly journals Skills building seminar: Making the elevator pitch work: how to convince a policymaker in less than 2 minutes

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Scientific Committee ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Public ◽  
To Come ◽  
Health Narrative

Abstract Since a number of years, EUPHA, the European Public Health Conference and other associations, have been working hard to translate the evidence in a such a format that policymakers take notice. The work by WHO Europe on ‘telling the public health narrative’ or providing factsheets and infographics is an example. EUPHA has organised several skills building workshops on translation of evidence in the past years (e.g. 2018: You say tomatoe, I say tomato). The European Public Health Conference introduced the so-called pitch presentations (at Glasgow 2014), where researchers are asked to present their work in 5 minutes with maximum 5 slides (no animations), a way to learn to present key messages from research in just a few minutes. But what should you do, if you meet your policymaker in the hallway or in an elevator? Can you present your work, including key messages, without slides? And in less than 2 minutes? You should be able to. In this skills-building workshop, we will select a number of abstracts that have been accepted by the International Scientific Committee as posters and we will invite the presenting authors to this dare: present your work and key messages in less than 2 minutes. In order to see whether the policymaker is convinced, we are organising a small panel of policymakers and ask them to give their feedback. Are they interested? Do they remember the key message? And if all goes well, do you get an invitation to come back and present more of your work? Key messages Being able to present your key messages anywhere, anytime is needed. Panelist Anne-Marie Yazbeck Chafea, Luxembourg Contact: [email protected] Ivan Erzen Slovenia Contact: [email protected]

scholarly journals Approach to Chilblains During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 504-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malika A. Ladha ◽  
Nadia Luca ◽  
Cora Constantinescu ◽  
Karen Naert ◽  
Michele L. Ramien
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Cutaneous Pattern ◽  
Timing Of Onset ◽  
Distinguishing Features

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) chilblains is a well-reported cutaneous pattern of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Through this narrative review, we provide an evidence-based overview of idiopathic and secondary chilblains, distinguishing features of COVID-19 chilblains, and a systematic clinical approach to history, examination, investigations, and treatment. In the absence of cold or damp exposure, COVID-19 should be considered as a cause of acute chilblains. The timing of onset of COVID-19 chilblains relative to active SARS-CoV-2 viremia remains unclear. Patients with suspected COVID-19 chilblains should thus follow public health guidelines for COVID-19 testing and self-isolation.

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