scholarly journals Helmet Use among Two Wheeler Female Riders

2019 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 034-038
Author(s):  
Rizwan Khan ◽  
Nadia Krishnan ◽  
Manju Dhandapani ◽  
Sivashanmugam Dhandapani
Keyword(s):  
Driving Under The Influence ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Hospital Workers ◽  
Helmet Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Two Wheeler

Abstract Introduction The frequency of traffic collisions in India is among the highest in the world with more than 135,000 traffic collision-related deaths occurring every year. The “Global Status Report on Road Safety” listed by the World Health Organization identified the major causes of injury as driving over the speed limit, driving under the influence, and not using helmets and seat belts. Women face unique challenges after traumatic brain injury, due to differential laws and their enforcement. Objectives To assess the use of helmet among female hospital workers (nurses, hospital attendants, sanitary attendants, and security guards) and their attitude toward helmet wearing. Methods Purposive sampling was done among female two-wheeler-riding hospital workers. A questionnaire was developed to study the use of helmet and an attitude Likert scale for assessing attitude toward wearing helmet. Data were collected, coded, and analyzed using SPSS software version 21. Results Of the total 89 women enrolled, 46.4% were mostly pillion riders, and 33% were mostly drivers. Only 19% were using helmet consistently, despite 93% owning it. Eighty-eight percent of the regular users were younger than 25 years, while 80% of the non-users were above 25 years. Even among regular drivers, 40% never wore helmet. Eighty-two percent of the non-users were merely casual despite knowing about its advantages. Conclusion Helmet use is very poor among women (both drivers and pillion riders), despite working in hospital environment and owning helmet. Stricter enforcement of helmet law is needed, as education and knowledge per-se may not instil helmet use.

scholarly journals PELATIHAN KADER POSYANDU PTM (PENYAKIT TIDAK MENULAR) DIWILAYAH TELUK BOGAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-113
Author(s):  
Yogie Irawan ◽  
Riky Riky ◽  
Rastia Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Health Organization

Penyakit tidak menular (PTM) sudah menjadi masalah kesehatan masyarakat secara global, regional,nasional dan lokal. Global status report on NCD World Health Organization (WHO) tahun 2010 melaporkan bahwa 60% penyebab kematian semua umur di dunia adalah karena PTM. Kegiatan ini berupa pelatihan kader posyandu mengenai penyakit tidak menular diwilayah kerja Puskesmas Teluk Bogam. Penyuluhan dilaksanakan di Puskesmas Teluk Bogam. Tujuan kegiatan ini adalah untuk untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilannya dalam mendeteksi dini dan mengontrol hipertensi dengan cara memberikan penyuluhan tentang hipertensi, pentingnya mengontrol hipertensi dan bagaimana cara mengukur tekanan darah.  Kata kunci : Lansia

scholarly journals The Impact of Alcoholic Beverages on Human Health

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 4417
Author(s):  
Peter Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
World Health ◽  
Status Report ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Status ◽  
The Impact

As summarized in the World Health Organization’s latest Global Status Report on Alcohol, the pleasure of alcohol is indicated by the fact that, worldwide, just over two-fifths of the population aged 15+ years drink alcohol; 2 [...]

scholarly journals Global Status of COVID-19 Diagnosis: An Overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 879-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Ravichandran ◽  
Subbaiyan Anbazhagan ◽  
Shiv Varan Singh ◽  
Himani Agri ◽  
Ramkumar N. Rupner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
Antibody Detection ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Definitive Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Asymptomatic Individuals ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
High Level

Since the beginning of the New Year 2020, countries around the world are stumbling due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Better approaches of diagnostics and medical facilities have helped some countries recover early. Previous exposures to epidemics have imparted lessons to handle such a pandemic with a high level of preparedness. The World Health Organization (WHO) and national health authorities are taking great efforts via efficient and impactful interventions to contain the virus. Diagnostic tests such as reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction are increasingly being used to confirm the diagnosis because testing biological samples for the presence of the virus is the definitive method to identify the disease, analyze the risk for transmission, and determine whether someone has been cured or not. It is also important to screen asymptomatic individuals to get the exact overview of the virus spread. Antibody detection plays a pivotal role in diagnosis; however, using it at the wrong time yields negative results and conveys dissenting opinion about the tests. Although the scaling up of testing has been significant, overall testing has been limited by the availability of diagnostics. Rapid diagnoses and discontinuation of transmission are keys to ending this pandemic. Diagnostics manufacturers are developing test kits and distributing them to different countries. Therefore, more than 500 commercial test kits for molecular- and immunoassays, most with Emergency Use Authorization, are now becoming available in the market. In this review, we discuss the importance of diagnostics, approaches of different countries toward the epidemic, global testing situation, and lessons to countries at the start of the epidemic for better preparedness.

scholarly journals History and global status of the new coronavirus covid-2019 and aspects of previous infections of sars-cov and mers-cov: A systematic review

Coronaviruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Pinato Alves da Costa ◽  
Vinicius Lisboa da Rocha ◽  
Rogério Rodrigo Ramos ◽  
José Martins Pinto Neto ◽  
Wagner Rafael da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Status ◽  
Advanced Support ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Epidemiological Situation

Introduction: Coronaviruses (CoV) are a diverse group of viruses which has been described in the literature since 1960, SARS, MERS and the most recent SARS-CoV-2. This new virus is causing worldwide pandemic outbreak on the first half of 2020, thousands of deaths and a major economic crisis. Objective: Due to this new context, the present study aimed to conduct a systematic study review on the global status of the new coronavirus (COVID-2019) and its aspects in comparison to the previous SARS-CoV infections and MERS-CoV. Methods: The study was conducted from January to September 2020, 89 clinical cases were submitted to further analysis and 77 studies were selected to systematic review under the PRISMA guidelines. Major findings and Conclusion: In some countries the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic appears to be out of control. In case of suspicion, tests are essential to identify early stages of invection and, if necessary, patients need to be put in quarantine and other public health measures should be taken in accordance to the World Health Organization guidelines. Advanced support is needed to identify and isolate infected patients, especially vaccines and medicines that help to control the virus and the epidemiological situation in each country. These measures are expected to reduce the rate of new cases of SARS-CoV-2.

scholarly journals Smart Safety Helmet for Bike Riders using IoT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Dharani P ◽  
Ganesh T ◽  
Gopinath V ◽  
Sharmasth Vali Y
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Smart Safety ◽  
Two Wheeler

According to the law of the Indian government as per section 129 of the motor vehicle act of 1988 briefly explains the motorcycle or two-wheeler rider is mandatory to wear the helmet while driving and the recent survey conducted on road accidents by the world health organization (WHO). This WHO organization has briefly mentioned the cause and the prevention of road accidents that are happened around the world. They also mentioned the highest death rate that took place in India and the survey also reported as per the rate 1.5 lakh of road death has been accounted for by each year approximately. The above article motivates us to develop a system that is capable of providing safety and precaution to the bike rider. We designed a system that is capable of detecting the rider is whether wearing the helmet or not. Then detecting if the rider has consumed alcohol or not, whether if these two conditions are yet satisfied then only the motor will ignite or else it will not ignite. In case an accident occurred, our system is capable of detecting the accident and its location approximately. We implanted the led strip indication in the helmet unit to reduce the percentage of an accident during night times.

Erstes Instrument zur standardisierten Erfassung der Teilhabe Behinderter

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (07) ◽  
pp. 526-527
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Menschen Mit Behinderung

Coenen M et al. [Recommendation for the collection and analysis of data on participation and disability from the perspective of the World Health Organization]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 2016; 59: 1060–1067 Um eine gleichberechtigte Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft von Menschen mit Behinderung zu ermöglichen, werden zunächst Daten zu vorhandenen Einschränkungen gebraucht. Erst wenn diese detailliert erhoben wurden, können Konzepte zur Beseitigung von Problemen entwickelt werden. Ein standardisiertes Erhebungsinstrument für alle Aspekte der Funktionsfähigkeit fehlte jedoch bisher.

Coronavirus diseases and pregnancy: COVID-19,SARS, and MERS

2020 ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Mobina Fathi ◽  
Kimia Vakili ◽  
Niloofar Deravi
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
World Health ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Intrauterine Growth ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Respiratory Droplets

Around the end of December 2019, a new beta-coronavirus from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China began to spread rapidly. The new virus, called SARS-CoV-2, which could be transmitted through respiratory droplets, had a range of mild to severe symptoms, from simple cold in some cases to death in others. The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was named COVID-19 by WHO and has so far killed more people than SARS and MERS. Following the widespread global outbreak of COVID-19, with more than 132758 confirmed cases and 4955 deaths worldwide, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic disease in January 2020. Earlier studies on viral pneumonia epidemics has shown that pregnant women are at greater risk than others. During pregnancy, the pregnant woman is more prone to infectious diseases. Research on both SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, which are pathologically similar to SARS-CoV-2, has shown that being infected with these viruses during pregnancy increases the risk of maternal death, stillbirth, intrauterine growth retardation and, preterm delivery. With the exponential increase in cases of COVID-19 throughout the world, there is a need to understand the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the health of pregnant women, through extrapolation of earlier studies that have been conducted on pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV. There is an urgent need to understand the chance of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from mother to fetus and the possibility of the virus crossing the placental barrier. Additionally, since some viral diseases and antiviral drugs may have a negative impact on the mother and fetus, in which case, pregnant women need special attention for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19.

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