Our climate and health emergency - Future role for global public health

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Rispel
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Water Insecurity ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Health Governance

Abstract Prof Laetitia Rispel is Immediate past President of the WFPHA, and Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg. She has a strong research background and publication record on public health governance, health workforce education, ethics, policy and practice. Following talks on the relationship between climate change and food and water insecurity presenting a public health emergency, and case examples of recent disasters, Professor Rispel will outline the WFPHA vision for the public health sector's role in the coming decades. The expanding need for well resourced, and well-trained public health sector at national and regional levels will be outlined. As the world careers ever closer to existential threats from unabated climate change, a key theme covered will be the imperative for multilateral climate negotiations to include public health experts Following this presentation, the panel will invite questions and discussion from the floor to share experience and develop solutions-based model for expanded role of public health, and how we transition to that new world.

scholarly journals Green Deal as a Climate Changes Dam on the Road to Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Jevtic ◽  
C Bouland
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Public health professionals (PHP) have a dual task in climate change. They should persuade their colleagues in clinical medicine of the importance of all the issues covered by the GD. The fact that the health sector contributes to the overall emissions of 4.4% speaks to the lack of awareness within the health sector itself. The issue of providing adequate infrastructure for the health sector is essential. Strengthening the opportunities and development of the circular economy within healthcare is more than just a current issue. The second task of PHP is targeting the broader population. The public health mission is being implemented, inter alia, through numerous activities related to environmental monitoring and assessment of the impact on health. GD should be a roadmap for priorities and actions in public health, bearing in mind: an ambitious goal of climate neutrality, an insistence on clean, affordable and safe energy, a strategy for a clean and circular economy. GD provides a framework for the development of sustainable and smart transport, the development of green agriculture and policies from field to table. It also insists on biodiversity conservation and protection actions. The pursuit of zero pollution and an environment free of toxic chemicals, as well as incorporating sustainability into all policies, is also an indispensable part of GD. GD represents a leadership step in the global framework towards a healthier future and comprises all the non-EU members as well. The public health sector should consider the GD as an argument for achieving goals at national levels, and align national public health policies with the goals of this document. There is a need for stronger advocacy of health and public-health interests along with incorporating sustainability into all policies. Achieving goals requires the education process for healthcare professionals covering all of topics of climate change, energy and air pollution to a much greater extent than before.

scholarly journals The Role of National Industrial Court in Sustaining Harmony in Nigerian Health Sector: A Case of University of Abuja Teaching Hospital

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Ifeanyichukwu Ojeka Ukonu ◽  
Gideon A. Emerole
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
Government Hospitals ◽  
The University

<p>Recently, Nigerian health sector especially the hospitals has been enervated by grievances, antagonism, unpleasantness, dissension, and apprehension. Unfortunately, the industry involved in ensuring workers’ healthcare and that of the populace has experienced tempestuous times. Slyly, issues whose pedigrees could be traced to superiority, autonomy, compensation schemes and other conditions of service gradually meandered into the public health sector leading to health workers and non-health workers being at loggerhead with one another. As such, the serenity and harmony once witnessed in government hospitals have been jumbled by incoherent differences of various groups in the hospital. This paper therefore proposes to examine the causes of disputes at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital; what has been done, and what needs to be done by all and sundry and more especially, the role National Industrial Court (NIC) has played in sustaining harmony in Nigerian health sector. Also, it will examine the role National industrial Court has previously played and can still play futuristically to enhance and sustain the desired industrial harmony in University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, the entire health sector and other sectors of the economy.</p>

scholarly journals Policy learning from influenza and the preparedness of the public health sector: A Latvian case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ieva_Daniela Beinarovica
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
Learning And Change

Due to globalization and continuous development and mutation and development of various pathogens, infectious diseases have transcended the public health sector and become issues of Global Public Health Security. Influenza – an infectious disease that is both a cyclical, yearly occurrence and the cause of several deadly global pandemics – regularly challenges the public health sector thus providing opportunities for policy learning and evidence bases policy change. By applying the Algorithm for continuous analysis of policy learning and change, this publication investigates whether and how policy learning and change took place in Latvia after the 2006/2007 influenza season, when a record number of infection cases was registered. Although the conclusions of this publication cannot be generalized, it provides valuable insights for future research, especially for the analysis of the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia.

scholarly journals Policy learning from influenza and the preparedness of the public health sector: 2006/2007 influenza season in Latvia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ieva_Daniela Beinarovica
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Influenza Season ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
Learning And Change

Due to globalization and continuous development and mutation and development of various pathogens, infectious diseases have transcended the public health sector and become issues of Global Public Health Security. Influenza – an infectious disease that is both a cyclical, yearly occurrence and the cause of several deadly global pandemics – regularly challenges the public health sector thus providing opportunities for policy learning and evidence bases policy change. By applying the Algorithm for continuous analysis of policy learning and change, this publication investigates whether and how policy learning and change took place in Latvia after the 2006/2007 influenza season, when a record number of infection cases was registered. Although the conclusions of this publication cannot be generalized, it provides valuable insights for future research, especially for the analysis of the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia.

scholarly journals Physiotherapy graduates' contribution to South Africa's health needs - A ten year survey of the University of the Witwatersrand

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Stewart ◽  
P. J. Wallner ◽  
L. Blecher ◽  
T. Bridgeford ◽  
J. Kirk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
Physiotherapy Department ◽  
The University

Graduates of the University of the Witwatersrand Physiotherapy department were surveyed by means of a questionnaire over a ten-year period, 1980-1990. It was found that almost thirty percent of the graduates were not in any way contributing to the health needs of the country. Twenty percent have left the country and a further nine percent are not practising physiotherapists. Of the remainder, only twenty-six percent are working in the public health sector which serves eighty percent of the population. Their work profiles and job satisfaction are also discussed.

ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT IN MACEDONIA: THE CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGY IN HEALTH SECTOR

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 5899
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kendrovski ◽  
Margarita Spasenovska ◽  
Maria Kisman ◽  
Allison Thorpe ◽  
Bettina Menne
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Public Health Impact ◽  
The Public

Corrupt Practices in the Public Health Sector: A Focus on Metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mustapha Namadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
The Government

Corruption is pervasive in Nigeria at all levels. Thus, despite recent gains in healthcare provision, the health sector faces numerous corruption related challenges. This study aims at examining areas of corruption in the health sector with specific focus on its types and nature. A sample size of 480 respondents aged 18 years and above was drawn from the eight Metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, using the multistage sampling technique. The results revealed evidence of corrupt practices including those related to unnecessary-absenteeism, diversion of patients from the public health facilities to the private sector, diverting money meant for the purchase of equipment, fuel and diesel, bribery, stealing of medications, fraud, misappropriation of medications and unjustifiable reimbursement claims. In order to resolve the problem of corrupt practices in the healthcare sector, the study recommended the need for enforcement of appropriate code of ethics guiding the conduct of the health professionals, adoption of anti-corruption strategies, and strengthening the government monitoring system to check corruption in public health sector in order to ensure equitable access to healthcare services among the under-privileged people in the society.

Navigating the Ethics of Big Data in Public Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 353-367
Author(s):  
Effy Vayena ◽  
Lawrence Madoff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Digital Disease Detection ◽  
The Public Sphere

“Big data,” which encompasses massive amounts of information from both within the health sector (such as electronic health records) and outside the health sector (social media, search queries, cell phone metadata, credit card expenditures), is increasingly envisioned as a rich source to inform public health research and practice. This chapter examines the enormous range of sources, the highly varied nature of these data, and the differing motivations for their collection, which together challenge the public health community in ethically mining and exploiting big data. Ethical challenges revolve around the blurring of three previously clearer boundaries: between personal health data and nonhealth data; between the private and the public sphere in the online world; and, finally, between the powers and responsibilities of state and nonstate actors in relation to big data. Considerations include the implications for privacy, control and sharing of data, fair distribution of benefits and burdens, civic empowerment, accountability, and digital disease detection.

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