scholarly journals Positive impacts among the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for community life

2021 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Aam Amirudin ◽  
M. Syamsul ◽  
Christin Sri Marnani ◽  
Nadiva Awalia Rahmah ◽  
Wilopo
Keyword(s):  
Human Movement ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The Face ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Long Term Impact

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global disease outbreak that quickly spreads throughout the world and transmits from one person to another so easily and is a form of danger that has the potential to threaten all aspects of people's lives. These negative impacts include social, economic, health, and psychological impacts, even to the point of threatening national defense and security, due to the limited space for human movement in carrying out daily activities. But there are also positive influences that we unconsciously admit, not only producing clean air but making individuals mentally strong and changing personalities for a better life. Adaptation of new life patterns from before makes people learn about the meaning of maintaining cleanliness in the face of a pandemic with new habits in maintaining personal hygiene, family, and the surrounding environment. The long-term impact on society is to produce people who are tough in facing life by taking advantage of existing opportunities into innovations in running life with the emergence of creative businesses as a new source of income in meeting the needs of families today and in the future.

scholarly journals COVID-19 confessions: a qualitative exploration of healthcare workers experiences of working with COVID-19

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. e043949
Author(s):  
Paul Bennett ◽  
S Noble ◽  
Stephen Johnston ◽  
David Jones ◽  
Rachael Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Front Line ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Face ◽  
Discharged Patients ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

ObjectivesTo gain insight into the experiences and concerns of front-line National Health Service (NHS) workers while caring for patients with COVID-19.DesignQualitative analysis of data collected through an anonymous website (www.covidconfidential) provided a repository of uncensored COVID-19 experiences of front-line NHS workers, accessed via a link advertised on the Twitter feed of two high profile medical tweeters and their retweets.SettingCommunity of NHS workers who accessed this social media.Participants54 healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses and physiotherapists, accessed the website and left a ‘story’.ResultsStories ranged from 1 word to 10 min in length. Thematic analysis identified common themes, with a central aspect being the experience and psychological consequence of trauma. Specific themes were: (1) the shock of the virus, (2) staff sacrifice and dedication, (3) collateral damage ranging from personal health concerns to the long-term impact on, and care of, discharged patients and (4) a hierarchy of power and inequality within the healthcare system.ConclusionsCOVID-19 confidential gave an outlet for unprompted and uncensored stories of healthcare workers in the context of COVID-19. In addition to personal experiences of trauma, there were perceptions that many operational difficulties stemmed from inequalities of power between management and front-line workers. Learning from these experiences will reduce staff distress and improve patient care in the face of further waves of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Kidney Damage After Sepsis: A Long-term Follow-up. An Experimental Study.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Alvim Liberatore ◽  
Giovana C. Obara ◽  
Rodrigo Barbosa de Souza ◽  
Luara L. Cassiano ◽  
Ivan Hong Jun Koh
Keyword(s):  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Control Group ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Renal Histology ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sepsis Survivors ◽  
Long Term Impact

Abstract Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) in sepsis is a common event. This study aims to evaluate the long-term impact of sepsis on renal hemodynamics and morphology. Methods: Wistar rats underwent sepsis and survivors (n = 24) were followed for up to six months, monitoring macro, regional and micro hemodynamics of the kidney, serum creatinine, and renal histology. The naive animals were used as the control group (n= 6), and sepsis was induced by E. coli e.v. inoculation. Surviving animals were monitored for up to six months. Results: Overall, the findings show that sepsis survivors have long-term hemodynamic and morphological compromise, as well as a progressive worsening of renal functional unit components over time. Even after six months of recovery from sepsis, severe renal hypoxia, chronic inflammation, evidence of increased vascular resistance, and renal fibrosis were observed in surviving animals. These alterations were present in animals with a healthy appearance and normal MAP. Conclusion: Those findings may represent a state of severely impaired physiology and be a contributing factor to the higher susceptibility to renal failure in the face of a new infectious challenge or to other pathological stimuli in the post-sepsis periods.

Neighborhood Inequalities and the Long–Term Impact of Foreclosures: Evidence from the Los Angeles–Inland Empire Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Tumpson Molina
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Inland Empire ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
Foreclosure Crisis ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Black And Latino

It is well documented that the foreclosure crisis was experienced unevenly in metropolitan regions nationwide. Yet it is still unclear how the long–term impacts of the foreclosure crisis manifested within the American metropolis. This paper identifies where the long–term negative impacts of the housing crisis were most acute by locating where foreclosed (REO) properties were more likely to remain vacant in the Los Angeles–Inland Empire area, a highly diverse region with high foreclosure rates. Foreclosure vacancies were concentrated in neighborhoods with larger Black and Latino populations, in older urban and inner–ring suburban neighborhoods, and in poorer neighborhoods with poorly performing schools. These patterns illuminate the enduring and emerging sociospatial inequalities that contribute to contemporary neighborhood decline and will likely shape the Los Angeles region's future, further solidifying longstanding neighborhood and other social inequalities.

scholarly journals Higher Education Leadership Training: Global Maps and Gaps

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (93) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Rumbley ◽  
Hilligje Van't Land ◽  
Juliette Becker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Higher Education Leaders ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Training Opportunities

Globally, most higher education leaders, managers, and policymakers receive no formal/specialized training for their work. Compared to the need, there is a relatively small number of structured training opportunities that exist to build leadership and management capacity in higher education around the world. These training programs are almost universally small in scale and largely unable to offer systematic accounts ofthe long-term impact of their efforts. This is a critical concern in the face of the myriad opportunities and imperatives facing higher education institutions and systems worldwide—particularly in low-income and emerging economy contexts—now and into the foreseeable future.

scholarly journals Higher Education Leadership Training: Global Maps and Gaps

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Laura Rumbley ◽  
Hilligje Van't Land ◽  
Juliette Becker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Higher Education Leaders ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Training Opportunities

Globally, most higher education leaders, managers, and policymakers receive no formal/specialized training for their work. Compared to the need, there is a relatively small number of structured training opportunities that exist to build leadership and management capacity in higher education around the world. These training programs are almost universally small in scale and largely unable to offer systematic accounts ofthe long-term impact of their efforts. This is a critical concern in the face of the myriad opportunities and imperatives facing higher education institutions and systems worldwide—particularly in low-income and emerging economy contexts—now and into the foreseeable future.

Radiocarbon in the Atmosphere of the Žlkovce Monitoring Station of the Bohunice NPP: 25 Years of Continuous Monthly Measurements

Radiocarbon ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
P P Povinec ◽  
A Šivo ◽  
M Ješkovský ◽  
I Svetlik ◽  
M Richtáriková ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Monitoring Station ◽  
Monitoring Site ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Tree Ring Data ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Long Term Impact

Radiocarbon variations in the atmosphere have been observed at the Žlkovce monitoring station of the Bohunice nuclear power plant (NPP), situated only 5 km ESE from the NPP. The observed 14C levels provide unique evidence of a decreasing long-term impact of the Bohunice NPP on the region. Simultaneously, decreasing emissions of fossil fuel carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the monitoring site have been found. The observed Δ14C variations with time have attenuating amplitudes and decreasing mean values, showing maxima in summer and minima in winter, the latter primarily caused by increased emission of fossil CO2 in winter months. Sporadic short-term releases of 14C from the Bohunice NPP were observed at the Žlkovce station. The annual atmospheric Δ14C variations compared with tree-ring data collected at the Žlkovce village show reasonable agreement. The observed Δ14C levels after 2005 are close to the European clean-air levels as measured at the Jungfraujoch (3450 m asl) monitoring station.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Promotes Positivity in the Face of Emotional Ambiguity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Harp ◽  
Jonathan B. Freeman ◽  
Maital Neta
Keyword(s):  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Single Class ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Emotional Bias

Reducing negative impacts of stress benefits physical and psychological well-being. Mindfulness training is one well-known method for reducing stress responses and is associated with reductions in self-reported negative affect, but essentially no research has targeted behavioral outcomes of emotional processes throughout long-term mindfulness trainings. For example, responses to emotionally ambiguous signals (e.g., surprised expressions), which might be interpreted as either positive or negative, offer unique leverage for assessing the effects of mindfulness on emotional bias. Here, we directly compared the effects of short- and long-term training via Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on ratings of faces with a relatively clear (angry, happy) and ambiguous (surprised) valence. Ratings became more positive for surprised faces from the start (Week 1) to end of training (Week 8; p < .001), but there were no short-term (from a single class session) effects. Notably, this shift towards positivity continued through an additional eight-week follow-up (Week 16; p< .001). Finally, post-training valence bias (Week 8) was uniquely predicted by non-reactivity rather than any other mindfulness facet (p = .01). Thus, mindfulness appears to promote a relatively long-lasting shift toward positivity in the face of emotional ambiguity, which is uniquely supported by reduced emotional reactivity.

scholarly journals Assessing The Macroeconomic Effects Of Water Scarcity In South Africa Using A Water-CGE Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Briand ◽  
Arnaud Reynaud ◽  
Franck Viroleau ◽  
Vasileos Markantonis ◽  
Giuliana Branciforti
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Cge Model ◽  
Policy Simulations ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Long Term Impact

Abstract We develop a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the macroeconomic impacts of water scarcity and water (in)security in South Africa. The water-CGE model which includes a detailed representation of water flows (surface water, groundwater, wastewater, and seawater) has been calibrated with an updated social accounting matrix enabling to conduct policy simulations up to 2030. We show that water scarcity will have an impact on the South African economy. With an increase of water scarcity by 17%, the CGE model predicts a decrease of South African GDP by -0.34% in 2030. The long-term impact of water scarcity varies from one sector to another, with the most negatively impacted sectors being those related to water (loss of GDP up to -2.48%). Due to the increase of water scarcity, the unemployment rate is expected to be 0.1% higher in 2020 which represents a loss of 18,000 jobs compared to the baseline year (2013). The 17% increase in water scarcity is also expected to have a negative impact on household welfare: by 2030, household consumption may decrease by -0.26%. Some policies can mitigate the negative impacts of water scarcity, the most promising one being to promote water saving.

Crisis Phones - Suicide Prevention Versus Suggestion/Contagion Effects

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Stack
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Contagion Effects ◽  
Long Term Impact

Abstract. Background: There has been no systematic work on the short- or long-term impact of the installation of crisis phones on suicides from bridges. The present study addresses this issue. Method: Data refer to 219 suicides from 1954 through 2013 on the Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Florida. Six crisis phones with signs were installed in July 1999. Results: In the first decade after installation, the phones were used by 27 suicidal persons and credited with preventing 26 or 2.6 suicides a year. However, the net suicide count increased from 48 in the 13 years before installation of phones to 106 the following 13 years or by 4.5 additional suicides/year (t =3.512, p < .001). Conclusion: Although the phones prevented some suicides, there was a net increase after installation. The findings are interpreted with reference to suggestion/contagion effects including the emergence of a controversial bridge suicide blog.

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