scholarly journals Centenarians’ Experience of the COVID Pandemic in Switzerland

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 110-110
Author(s):  
Daniela Jopp ◽  
Stefano Cavalli ◽  
Armin von Gunten ◽  
François Herrmann ◽  
Carla Gomes Da Rocha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Abstract Being considered as individuals with elevated risk of severe health reactions to the COVID19 infections, governments around the world have put in place wide-ranging measures to protect very old individuals from the virus. In the present study, we investigated centenarians’ experience of the COVID19 pandemic, to reach a better understanding of their vulnerability and resilience. As part of the SWISS100 study, we conducted telephone interviews with 30 centenarians and 40 family members. While almost all centenarians felt not, qualitative data suggested the existence of two groups: One included centenarians lived rather withdrawn and isolated before the crisis and therefore did not experience major changes. The other group included centenarians who suffered substantially from no longer being able to see family and friends and missed valued activities. Family members reported challenges, including centenarians’ decline in mental and physical health. Findings highlight the importance of different vulnerability profiles and lock-down side effects.

scholarly journals A Survey based on Side Effects of Internet Addiction on Youth during Quarantine Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Preventive Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Socially Isolated ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

The fast-moving world where the society is advancing each second, the productivity got a break when Covid -19 pandemic was spread throughout the world. So as to limit the damage of this disease, Government of India imposed a lockdown. Due to this, people are entrapped in their homes and are becoming socially isolated. As a result of their boredom, Internet seems as a one-stop solution. But the extensive utility of internet during the period of Quarantine has its side effects. This paper aims to analyse the levels of internet addiction and the associated effects on people’s mental and physical health as well as the various changes in their dietary habits associated with it. This paper also discusses preventive strategies that can be utilized during the quarantine period by individuals, which can help reduce/eliminate these problems.

scholarly journals Does the novel coronavirus 2019 like heart more than the other family members of coronaviruses?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mostafa Ansari Ramandi ◽  
Mohammadreza Baay ◽  
Nasim Naderi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Coronavirus Infections

The disaster due to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) around the world has made investigators enthusiastic about working on different aspects of COVID-19. However, although the pandemic of COVID-19 has not yet ended, it seems that COVID-19 compared to the other coronavirus infections (the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS] and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome [SARS]) is more likely to target the heart. Comparing the previous presentations of the coronavirus family and the recent cardiovascular manifestations of COVID-19 can also help in predicting possible future challenges and taking measures to tackle these issues.

Global Lighting Centre Ltd.

2015 ◽  
pp. 212-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Andoh-Quainoo
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context ◽  
Starting A Business

The purpose of this case study is to examine the motivation and challenges influencing entrepreneurial startup of family businesses from Africa, specifically Ghana. The case brings out how the founder of a family business has been able to manage these challenges and incorporate non-family members for business success. The case further explores the differences and similarities in the motivational factors and challenges associated with starting a business in an African context, specifically Ghanaian context, as compared to the other parts of the world. A questionnaire and in-depth interview was used to gather data. The findings suggest that though there are several personal and environmental challenges faced when starting a family business in Ghana, entrepreneurs with strong mental and personality qualities or characteristics are able to make it.

Module 3—Spirituality (Sessions 7–9)

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Amy Weisman de Mamani ◽  
Merranda McLaughlin ◽  
Olivia Altamirano ◽  
Daisy Lopez ◽  
Salman Shaheen Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Case Illustration ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Culturally Informed ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Mounting evidence indicates that religion/spirituality (R/S) have multiple mental and physical health benefits for those who practice them, including for individuals living with schizophrenia and their families. This chapter introduces the spirituality module, which is aimed at creating a collaborative family environment that may utilize R/S to facilitate recovery. The chapter includes a rationale and goals for addressing R/S in culturally informed therapy for schizophrenia, ways of exploring individual family members’ beliefs and values surrounding R/S, and helping to build up adaptive aspects of R/S coping while correcting maladaptive uses of R/S. Sharing meaningful prayers and symbols is encouraged to develop therapist understanding and to reinforce the benefits of R/S for clients. Differences in how family members perceive and practice R/S are explored, guided by detailed handouts. A case illustration of a Muslim American father–son pair demonstrates the process.

Punishment and the physiology of the Timaeus

1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Stalley
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Health And Sickness ◽  
Made In

It hardly needs to be said that the parallel between mental and physical health plays an important part in Plato's moral philosophy. One of the central claims of the Republicis that justice is to the soul what health is to the body (443b–444e).1 Similar points are made in other dialogues.2 This analogy between health and sickness on the one hand and virtue and vice on the other is closely connected to the so–called Socratic paradoxes. Throughout his life Plato seems to have clung in some sense to the ideas that justice is our greatest good, that the unjust man is correspondingly miserable and that no one is therefore willingly unjust. It follows from these ideas that the unjust man, like the sick man, is in a wretched state which is not of his own choosing.

scholarly journals Immunotoxins Immunotherapy against Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Promising Prospect

Toxins ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 719
Author(s):  
Mohammad Heiat ◽  
Hamid Hashemi Yeganeh ◽  
Seyed Moayed Alavian ◽  
Ehsan Rezaie
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Liver Cancer ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Treatment Strategy ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cross Resistance ◽  
Chemotherapy Drugs ◽  
The World

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers in the world. Therefore, fighting against such cancer is reasonable. Chemotherapy drugs are sometimes inefficient and often accompanied by undesirable side effects for patients. On the other hand, the emergence of chemoresistant HCC emphasizes the need for a new high-efficiency treatment strategy. Immunotoxins are armed and rigorous targeting agents that can purposefully kill cancer cells. Unlike traditional chemotherapeutics, immunotoxins because of targeted toxicity, insignificant cross-resistance, easy production, and other favorable properties can be ideal candidates against HCC. In this review, the characteristics of proper HCC-specific biomarkers for immunotoxin targeting were dissected. After that, the first to last immunotoxins developed for the treatment of liver cancer were discussed. So, by reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of these immunotoxins, we attempted to provide keynotes for designing an optimal immunotoxin against HCC.

scholarly journals Challenges of WSNs in IoT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brijesh Kundaliya
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Node ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Moving Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Day By Day

IoT and WSNs are the prime moving force for technology in the current world. WSNs unfold their capacity day by day in almost every aspect of life. IoT enables to integrate the different devices and makes it possible to communicate with each other. It makes life easier and upgrades the application’s usage to the next level. The integration of WSNs with IoT will help to reach apical of the usage of applications. The combination of WSNs and IoT will open up new doors in almost all the possible fields however the amalgamation of both the technology needs careful consideration about bringing the both on same level. The IoT is considered a mighty giant with enormous power and capability. On the other side, WSNs are miniature having limited resources but the tremendous capability to penetrate in almost every aspect of life. WSN’s limited resources are the main concern while integrating it with the IoT. The integration will make it possible to access the sensor node from any part of the world. It implies that now the sensor node is open for any heterogeneous internet user in the world. It will cause a security issue. Moreover, the topology and addressing of WSNs are different from the normal internet which needs to be addressed during the integrations. And there are other challenges too which we discussed in depth in this chapter.

scholarly journals Emotional Imbalance and Human Ailments

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 307-309
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Man is made by cells and their life is made by emotions, which in turn determine their health and wealth. Our emotions and feelings direct our physical activities. What we think inside comes outside. What we see outside came from human mind1 . Our thoughts and the emotions are the input and the deeds and the actions are the outcomes. In fact, our emotions and thoughts are our life. As the quality of inputs determine the output. The nature of our emotions and thoughts determine the nature of our life. If the emotions and thoughts are positive then our life will be positive.1 that means we will be happy and healthy. On the other hand, if our thoughts are negative, we will be negative, that is our life will be unhappy and unhealthy. It is believed that, negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, worry, depression and jealous influence our mental and physical health negatively. Therefore the researchers made an attempt in this study to find out the impact of emotions on human health. Thus, the study concludes that the negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, depression, fear and worry and disease are associated. But this may or may not be generalized as it is pertaining to a particular group of people belong to a particular center and a particular area, however it may be a valuable model for a macro study.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review through the Lens of 9-Month-based Knowledge and Brief Snapshots of 10 Cases and Five Family Units, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-47
Author(s):  
Naseem Akhtar Qureshi ◽  
Abdulhameed Abdullah Al- Habeeb
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has questioning origin in Wuhan, an industrial city of China. The novel coronavirus 2 (NCV2) was first identified in December 2019, and World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a global public health emergency on 30 January 2020, officially named it as COVID-19 on February 11 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. COVID-19 causes physical and mental health problems of variable severity and outcomes among people around the world. Objective: This study has two aims;1) to conduct a scoping review of COVID-19’s epidemiological trend, clinical manifestations, therapeutics, diagnosis, and progress on vaccine development; and 2) to describe a case series of ten consultees’ and conveniently selected five family units’ mental and physical health effects of COVID-19 over the past 9 months, December to August 31, 2020. Methods: We used keywords and Boolean Operators for conducting electronic searches of published literature in three largest databases on COVID-19 and regularly received notifications from COVID-19 resource centers, scientific journals, international and national research and economic institutions, and various websites, which helped to retain 82 articles after iterative screening for this review. In addition, 10 cases and the heads of 5 family units were interviewed virtually for assessing the mental and physical health of all family members affected by COVID-19. Results: COVID-19 pandemic presents with variable clinical manifestations and outcomes attributable to the persons’ immune system, age and gender, physical and mental comorbidities, and adversely affects the biopsychosocial, cultural and economic fabrics of the world population. Basic preventive precautions and nonspecific drug interventions against COVID-19 are relatively effective with inconstant morbidity and mortality, and vaccine development researches (phase I-III) are in progress around the world. All persons in case series, not corona positive except one, presented with mental and physical health problems of wider nature that required integrated treatment interventions while majority of family unit members were less affected mentally or physically by COVID-19 and improved with preventive precautions. Conclusion: COVID-19 is highly virulent disease linked with variable mental health problems, greater morbidity and mortality, severe strains on healthcare organizations and economic downturn around the world. Despite difficult access to services, overall our case series and family members showed good outcome. Information concerning COVID-19 is continuously evolving and, hence, further scoping reviews, randomized clinical trials and surveys concerning its several perspectives are needed in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Gulf countries.

Lesson From Covid19 Outbreak And Its Impact: A Generalized Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakshi Gupta ◽  
Karan Veer
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Quality Change ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Water Quality Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

: An infectious disease enumerated in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and then exported in many countries across world called Coronavirus disease 2019. It is also named by COVID-19. COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic 60.2 Million confirmed cases, which is a leading health concern for public across the world, where mainly middle and old age people are hospitalized and dead across the affected countries. Where more than 1.42 Million people have deceased and More than 41.5 Million people have been recovered. Almost all the countries are fighting against the transmission of the virus by restricting transportation and other daily life activities. Coronavirus outbreak causes many psychological disorders, such as, fear of infection and dying. On the other hand, COVID-19 results some positive consequences on environment due to restricted human activities. Environmental conditions including air quality, global warming, water quality, change of biodiversity and ecosystem and many more parameters are shows a significant improvement in meteorological graph. Overall environmental pollution is reduced and earth is healing itself.

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