The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI): 2020 Report

Summary Objectives: To summarize the major activities of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) in the 2020 time period and to welcome its 2020 Class of Fellows. Method: Report from the members of the Academy’s Board. Results: Due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, both Plenary meetings in 2020 had to be organized as virtual meetings. Scientific discussions, focusing on mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge and on data standards and interoperability formed major parts of these meetings. A statement on the use of informatics in pandemic situations was elaborated and sent to the World Health Organization. A panel on data standards and interoperability started its work. 34 Fellows were welcomed in the 2020 Class of Fellows so that the Academy now consists of 179 members. Conclusions: There was a shift from supporting to strategic activities in the Academy’s work. After having achieved organizational stability, the Academy can now focus on its strategic work and so on its main objective.

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Suicide Prevention ◽

10.1093/med/9780198791607.003.0017 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 147-150

Author(s):

Navneet Kapur ◽

Robert Goldney

Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Suicide Prevention ◽

Social Care ◽

International Association ◽

World Health ◽

Major Health ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

International Academy

With the increasing recognition of suicide as a major health and social care issue, many suicide prevention organisations have been established locally, nationally and internationally. This chapter includes a number of links to the most prominent of these, but the list is indicative rather than exhaustive. These include the International Association for Suicide Prevention, the International Academy of Suicide Research, the Samaritans, the World Health Organization, and national suicide prevention organizations from across the world.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Data Visualization with Moment about Midpoint: Exploratory and Expository Analyses

Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics ◽

10.9734/ajpas/2020/v8i430212 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 15-37

Author(s):

Stephen Olusegun Are ◽

Matthew Iwada Ekum

Keyword(s):

Cross Sections ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Total Sample ◽

World Health ◽

The Central Limit Theorem ◽

Time Period ◽

The World ◽

Exploratory Data ◽

Novel Coronavirus ◽

Health Organization

Aims: To visualize COVID-19 data using Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to tell the COVID-19 story expository. Study Design: The study uses EDA approach to visualize the COVID-19 data. The study uses secondary data collected from World Health Organization (WHO) in a panel form and partition the world using WHO regions. Moment about a midpoint and EDA are jointly used to analyze the data. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, Lagos State Polytechnic and Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro. The data used covered all regions of the world from January 2020 to July 2020. Methodology: We included 198 countries (cross-sections) partitioned into 7 WHO regions over 7 months (190 days) time period, spanning 3000 datasets. The EDA and moment about a midpoint is used for the analysis. This is a purely descriptive and expository analysis to tell the story of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Results: The total sample points used for this analysis are 30,010, which can be taken as a big data and it is large enough to assume the central limit theorem. The results of the analysis showed that cumulative cases and deaths are increasing but at a slower rate. Some WHO region curves are already flattening. Conclusion: The study concluded that average number of new cases and new deaths will decrease in coming months but there will be increase in the cumulative cases and deaths but at a slower rate.

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Reported Direct and Indirect Contact with Dromedary Camels among Laboratory-Confirmed MERS-CoV Cases

Viruses ◽

10.3390/v10080425 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (8) ◽

pp. 425 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Romy Conzade ◽

Rebecca Grant ◽

Mamunur Malik ◽

Amgad Elkholy ◽

Mohamed Elhakim ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Zoonotic Transmission ◽

World Health ◽

Specific Mechanism ◽

Dromedary Camels ◽

Animal Reservoir ◽

Indirect Contact ◽

Unpasteurized Milk ◽

Time Period ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

Dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) are now known to be the vertebrate animal reservoir that intermittently transmits the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to humans. Yet, details as to the specific mechanism(s) of zoonotic transmission from dromedaries to humans remain unclear. The aim of this study was to describe direct and indirect contact with dromedaries among all cases, and then separately for primary, non-primary, and unclassified cases of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) between 1 January 2015 and 13 April 2018. We present any reported dromedary contact: direct, indirect, and type of indirect contact. Of all 1125 laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV cases reported to WHO during the time period, there were 348 (30.9%) primary cases, 455 (40.4%) non-primary cases, and 322 (28.6%) unclassified cases. Among primary cases, 191 (54.9%) reported contact with dromedaries: 164 (47.1%) reported direct contact, 155 (44.5%) reported indirect contact. Five (1.1%) non-primary cases also reported contact with dromedaries. Overall, unpasteurized milk was the most frequent type of dromedary product consumed. Among cases for whom exposure was systematically collected and reported to WHO, contact with dromedaries or dromedary products has played an important role in zoonotic transmission.

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Edukasi dan Pemberian Bantuan pada Pasien Tuberkolosis

SYUKUR (Jurnal Inovasi Sosial dan Pengabdian Masyarakat) ◽

10.22236/syukur_vol1/is1pp1-11 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Tohirin Tohirin Tohirin ◽

Evy Rizki Amaliyah ◽

Evy Rizki Amaliyah

Keyword(s):

Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Health Sciences ◽

World Health ◽

World Community ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadly infectious diseases which is still a concern of the world community. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, in 2013, about 9 million people suffered from tuberculosis and 1.5 million died. This disease attacks various regions in Indonesia, one of them is Tangerang, Banten. Based on data from Puskesmas in Tangerang City, the number of suspect cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in 2015 were 7,455 cases, while the number of new cases of BTA (+) found as many as 1.005 people, and the number of cases of duration of pulmonary tuberculosis were 661 people. Meanwhile, according to gender, found as many as 1017 cases in men and 649 cases in women. This problem is then that pushed the Faculty of Health Sciences Muhammadiyah University Prof. DR. HAMKA reduces the students through the field propagation program. Students educate people about TB disease and raise funds to help people with TB.

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Everyone Should be Fatactivists or Fat-allies

Conjunctions Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation ◽

10.7146/tjcp.v7i1.119859 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dina Almlund

Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Health Hazard ◽

Western Culture ◽

World Health ◽

Time Period ◽

Social Inequities ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Health Organization

Fatphobia is ubiquitous. Fatphobia is a structure in society. And it affects the lives of fat people in ways that are damaging to their health and can cause major inequities. This article maps out fatphobia as ever present through the history of Western culture – no time period exceptions – and it examines a very important report from the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning the health hazard and social inequities caused by fatphobia. Shakespeare’s fatjokes and the ever presence of shapewear and all the portraits of Jesus as a thin, white man show us 5,000 years of cultivated fatmisia. That is why WHO has written a report urging doctors and other healthcare professionals to treat fat patients with empathy and sensitivity like they would thin patients. In mapping out a structure that dehumanises people of size, I bring in a few examples from my own life as a fat person and as a fatactivist. Existing while fat in a world that hates fatness is hard work.

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A Survey on some of the Global Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

10.21203/rs.3.rs-20842/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ishaani Priyadarshini

Keyword(s):

Gross Domestic Product ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

World Health ◽

High Tech ◽

Travel And Tourism ◽

Time Period ◽

High Tech Product ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

Abstract Ever since COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019, it has gained a lot of popularity. Within a span of two months, it managed to travel across the globe and affected more than a million people, resulting in several deaths. The World Health Organization recently declared COVID-19 as a pandemic over the number of cases registered by country. However, there is a lot more to just people being infected by the disease. Apparently COVID-19 has managed to disrupt businesses all over the world causing world panic. In this paper, some global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are identified and certain trends related to the same over the approximate time period of January 2020- March 2020 have been observed. The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the travel and tourism industry and high tech product shipments have been analyzed. The study would assist the industries to prepare better for the global crisis and would assist them in contemplating specific scenarios in case of an epidemic or pandemic in the future.

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Successful Implementation of a Window for Routine Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Shorter than That of the World Health Organization Standard

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ◽

10.1086/667374 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 33 (9) ◽

pp. 912-916 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Heidi Misteli ◽

Andreas F. Widmer ◽

Walter P. Weber ◽

Evelyne Bucher ◽

Marc Dangel ◽

...

Keyword(s):

World Health Organization ◽

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis ◽

Skin Incision ◽

World Health ◽

Secondary Outcome ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Outcome Parameter ◽

Time Period ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

Objective.To evaluate the feasibility of implementation of the refined window for routine antimicrobial prophylaxis (RAP) of 30-74 minutes before skin incision compared to the World Health Organization (WHO) standard of 0-60 minutes.Design.Prospective study on timing of routine antimicrobial prophylaxis in 2 different time periods.Setting.Tertiary referral university hospital with 30,000 surgical procedures per year.Methods.In all consecutive vascular, visceral, and trauma procedures, the timing was prospectively recorded during a first time period of 2 years (A; baseline) and a second period of 1 year (B; after intervention). An intensive intervention program was initiated after baseline. The primary outcome parameter was timing; the secondary outcome parameter was surgical site infection (SSI) rate in the subgroup of patients undergoing cholecystectomy/colon resection.Results.During baseline time period A (3,836 procedures), RAP was administered 30–74 minutes before skin incision in 1,750 (41.0%) procedures; during time period B (1,537 procedures), it was administered in 914 (56.0%; P < .001). The subgroup analysis did not reveal a significant difference in SSI rate.Conclusions.This bundle of interventions resulted in a statistically significant improvement of timing of RAP even at a shortened window compared to the WHO standard.

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