Suicide, Violence, and Other Forms of Injury

2019 ◽  
pp. 449-466
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Logan ◽  
James A. Mercy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Unintentional Injuries ◽  
Drug Overdoses ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Nonfatal Injuries

Fatal and nonfatal self-directed and interpersonal violence and unintentional injuries can spread throughout a community just like infectious diseases. What drives people to attempt suicide, harm others, or place themselves in unsafe situations most often results from complex dynamics between themselves and their social environments. Nevertheless, outbreaks of fatal and nonfatal injuries do occur. Similar to how an infectious disease manifests and spreads, outbreaks of self-inflicted, violent injuries, and even unintentional injuries, such as drug overdoses, also can be precipitated by immediate exposures that public health prevention strategies can best address. At some point, a field epidemiologist will face the challenges and the nuances of these epidemics. This chapter provides case stories of injury-related epidemics and the exposures and circumstances that propagated them. It also reviews the types of investigations conducted to address these epidemics, common challenges, and the short- and long-term strategies used to control such dangerous and deadly outbreaks.

The Potential Impact of Border Security Upon Prevalence of Infectious Disease

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-562
Author(s):  
Christiana R. Dallas ◽  
Curtis H. Harris ◽  
Cham E. Dallas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Migrant Health ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Health Care Monitoring ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

AbstractIn the U.S., migration has been documented to affect the prevalence of infectious disease. As a mitigation entity, border security has been recorded by numerous scholarly works as being essential to the support of the health of the U.S. population. Consequently, the lack of current health care monitoring of the permeable U.S. border places the U.S. population at risk in the broad sectors of infectious disease and interpersonal violence. Visualizing border security in the context of public health mitigation has significant potential to protect migrant health as well as that of all populations on both sides of the border. Examples of how commonly this philosophy is held can be found in the expansive use of security-focused terms regarding public health. Using tools such as GIS to screen for disease in people before their entrance into a nation would be more efficient and ethical than treating patients once they have entered a population and increased the impact on the healthcare system. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:554–562)

scholarly journals Preprints & Pandemics: Interventions into the Dynamic Scholarly System of Scholarly Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micah Altman ◽  
Philip N. Cohen ◽  
Jessica Polka
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic is an exemplar of how scholarly communication can change in response to external shocks, even as the scholarly knowledge ecosystem is evolving rapidly, and many argue that swift and fundamental interventions are needed. However, it is much easier to identify ongoing changes and emerging interventions than to understand their immediate and long term impacts. This is illustrated by comparing the approaches applied by the scientific community to understand public health risks and interventions with those applied by the scholarly communications community to the science of COVID-19. There are substantial disagreements over the short- and long- term benefits of most proposed approaches to changing the practice of science communication, and the lack of systematic, empirically-based research in this area makes these controversies difficult to resolve. We argue that the methodology of analysis and intervention developed within public health can be usefully applied to the science-of-science. Starting with the history of DDT application, we illustrate four ways complex human systems threaten reliable predictions and blunt ad-hoc interventions. We then show how these four threats apply lead to the last major intervention in scholarly publication -- the article publishing charge based open access model -- to yield surprising results. Finally, we outline how these four threats may affect the impact of preprint initiatives, and we identify approaches drawn from public health to mitigate these threats.

scholarly journals TREATMENT OF COLORECTAL CANCER COMPLICATED BY INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION USING THE METHOD OF «FAST-TRACK» RECOVERY

2015 ◽  
Vol 174 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. L. Denisenko ◽  
Yu. M. Gain
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Complex Treatment ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Fast Track Recovery

A medical trend which is currently gaining strength includes the complex treatment based on the concept of «fast-track» recovery in oncology. An application of modern high-tech approaches allowed minimizing the terms of treatment, shortening economic costs and getting the highest final results. It provides a high quality treatment. Given method could exclude an interim treatment stages, sufficiently reduces terms of general treatment and rehabilitation of patients and could succeed in high quality of life for the patients in short- and long-term period. The authors present the results of successful clinical surgery of 78 patients using this method in public health.

scholarly journals Conducting Infectious and Communicable Disease Education in Hospitality Organizations Viewpoint

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Brandon Howell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Bloodborne Pathogens ◽  
Hospitality Organizations ◽  
Management Techniques

Every day, employees in the lodging and hospitality industry are potentially exposed to bloodborne pathogens and other infectious diseases. Federally sponsored biosafety and infectious disease training sessions were conducted at two lodging sites in an effort to promote infectious disease primary prevention, as well as mitigation and management techniques in the hospitality industry in an effort to develop interdisciplinary connections between public health and hospitality. The trainings were positively received, but as this viewpoint reveals, further research, partnerships, and curriculum development is needed in this area in order for it to have long-term and impactful effects.

scholarly journals If long-term suppression is not possible, how do we minimize mortality for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Handel ◽  
Joel C. Miller ◽  
Yang Ge ◽  
Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Infectious Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Long Time

As COVID-19 continues to spread, public health interventions are crucial to minimize its impact. The most desirable goal is to drive the pathogen quickly to extinction. This generally involves applying interventions as strongly as possible, which worked for SARS, but so far has failed for COVID-19. If fast eradication is not achievable, the next best goal is to delay the spread and minimize cases and burden on the health care system until suitable drugs or vaccines are available. This suppression approach also calls for strong interventions, potentially applied for a long time.

An epidemiological evaluation of a public health measure aimed at reducing the availability of methylamphetamine

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. de Alarcón
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Abnormal Behaviour ◽  
Public Health Measure ◽  
Health Measure ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Epidemiological Evaluation

SynopsisThis paper attempts to show how a public health measure, by reducing production and withdrawing methylamphetamine (Methedrine) from retail pharmacists, dramatically affected the prevalence of its abuse in a provincial population. This measure coincided with the midpoint of a four-year survey into drug abuse which was being carried out in that area. This opportune timing created a natural experiment whereby it became possible to observe and measure the short- and long-term effects of a single social factor on one form of abnormal behaviour.

scholarly journals Pseudomonas Infection of the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Health and Public Health Issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Malachovsky ◽  
M. Janickova ◽  
J. Stasko ◽  
M. Kasaj ◽  
V. Sadlonova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Temporomandibular Joint ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Malignant External Otitis ◽  
Pseudomonas Infection ◽  
Microbial Agent

Abstract The authors describe a case of a rare infectious disease of intra-articular tissues of the temporomandibular joint caused mainly by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In scientific literature, under the heading invasive (malignant) external otitis, we can find cases of an infectious disease of the external acoustic meatus caused by a microbial agent of Pseudomonas aeruginosa which can subsequently penetrate into structures. However, a primary affliction of the abovementioned structures has not been described. Localisation and severity of the infection requires long-term and massive treatment with antibiotics.

scholarly journals Coronary thrombosis after COVID-19 infection in a young patient with no comorbidities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Mathias Brida ◽  
Sergio Ferreira Filho ◽  
Bruno Finkler ◽  
Raphael Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Young Patient ◽  
Coronary Thrombosis ◽  
Late Period ◽  
St Segment Elevation ◽  
Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction ◽  
St Segment ◽  
Inflammatory State ◽  
Short And Long Term

COVID-19 emerged as a viral infection causing severe acute respiratory syndrome, taking global proportions in 2020, with significant impact on public health. The scenario has become alarming since the infection is more severe in patients with cardiovascular diseases, mortality being up to four-fold greater in these patients, as compared to the general population. As a probable contributor, the prothrombotic inflammatory state has been subject of discussion among scientists, with no consolidated treatments in the short and long term. We describe the case of a young patient, with no cardiovascular risk factors, with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction caused by coronary thrombosis, in the late period after COVID-19 infection, and reviewed the most recent recommendations for its treatment.

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