Working in Complexity and Doubt

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Leadership Teams ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cherokee Nation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Grey Area

This chapter studies how, when we are faced with complexity and doubt, we can make decisions about health that align with the approach of the Cherokee Nation and avoid some of the mistakes made by other leadership teams during COVID-19. Working in complexity and doubt requires, above all, balance. On one hand, we must be able to identify what we do know and respect the science enough to integrate this information into the choices we make. On the other hand, we must appreciate the limits of our understanding while not being paralyzed by them. It is important to cultivate a comfort with ambiguity and doubt, so we can position ourselves to make decisions that support health. Operating in a grey area between knowledge and ignorance is, in many ways, a common practice in science and public health. The chapter then raises the issue of cancel culture, polarization, and political groupthink, arguing that they reflect something core to the collective relationship to ambiguity, doubt, and complexity. They suggest how uncomfortable many of us are with these fundamental elements of life.

scholarly journals Biological Tools to Deal with Pollution : Selected Advances and Novel Perspectives

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Ghanemi ◽  
Besma Boubertakh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environment And Public Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Metabolic Properties ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Impact

Pollution  represents  a  problem  common  to economy and  public  health. Indeed, the public health, because of the  divers’  type of pollutions, is facing divers challenges for which urgent solutions are required.The biology provides approaches not only to deal with the pollution, but also to  obtain  economic  benefits. Some living  organisms  have  particular metabolisms  that allow  them  to  assimilate  and  metabolite  the polluting agents  and thus reduce the  impact  they have on both environment  and public health.  On  the other  hand,  the  metabolic  properties  of  specific organisms make  the  polluting  elements raw materials to  synthesize  other elements that are benefits  for  economy  and  non-toxic  for  the  ecology and  the  biohealth. Yet, other options such as the regulations and laws are  required  to improve the efficiency of these approaches.

Internet and Suicide

2011 ◽  
pp. 384-390
Author(s):  
Dianne Currier
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
Public Health Officials

It is now commonly accepted that the appearance and expansion of Internet-based communication has given rise to new possibilities for forging social networks and establishing “communities of interest.” One such ‘interest group’ which has found a community online comprises those who wish to end their lives. This has become a cause for concern to public health officials, governments, and suicide prevention professionals, while on the other hand possibilities for outreach and prevention in the new medium are being explored. The ways in which suicidal individuals have availed themselves of the information resources and connective possibilities of the Internet are outlined below, along with how governments and other parties interested in suicide prevention have responded to this new domain of risk.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the use of PetrifilmTM EB count plates for the enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae in poultry samples

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-593
Author(s):  
Tainá Drebes ◽  
Cláudia Majolo ◽  
Hans Fröder
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Conventional Method ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Alternative Method ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Glucose Agar ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Conventional Methods

A test that is rapid, simple, accurate, not expensive, gives rapid results, and is sensitive enough to detect low levels of microorganisms would be the most suitable for food industry routine laboratories, or even for a public health laboratories. A ready-to-use alternative, commercially available method is the PetrifilmTM EB method. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether there is a statistically significant difference between the conventional methods based on Violet Red Bile Glucose Agar and the alternative 3M TM Petrifilm (EB) method for the enumeration of Enterobacteriaceae in poultry carcasses. This study also assessed whether the alternative method showed ability to produce results that were directly proportional to the concentration of the target (approximately 270 colony-forming unit.mL-1). A total of 120 poultry carcasses samples showed a significant difference (p < 0.05) between the populations obtained by the two methods, and the conventional method showed low proportionality between the dilutions. On the other hand, the PetrifilmTM EB quantification system showed the capacity to produce results that are proportional to the concentration of the analyte in samples in the concentration range from 1 to 256 colony-forming unit.mL-1.

scholarly journals Convergence of Precision Medicine and Public Health Into Precision Public Health: Toward a Big Data Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Elkind Velmovitsky ◽  
Tatiana Bevilacqua ◽  
Paulo Alencar ◽  
Donald Cowan ◽  
Plinio Pelegrini Morita
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
The Other ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Precision Public Health ◽  
Other Hand

The field of precision medicine explores disease treatments by looking at genetic, socio-environmental, and clinical factors, thus trying to provide a holistic view of a person's health. Public health, on the other hand, is focused on improving the health of populations through preventive strategies and timely interventions. With recent advances in technology, we are able to collect, analyze and store for the first-time large volumes of real-time, diverse and continuous health data. Typically, the field of precision medicine deals with a huge amount of data from few individuals; public health, on the other hand, deals with limited data from a population. With the coming of Big Data, the fields of precision medicine and public health are converging into precision public health, the study of biological and genetic factors supported by large amounts of population data. In this paper, we explore through a comprehensive review the data types and use cases found in precision medicine and public health. We also discuss how these data types and use cases can converge toward precision public health, as well as challenges and opportunities provided by research and analyses of health data.

COVID-19 and the Media in Nigeria

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Obiageli Pauline Ohiagu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides a Nigerian perspective to the global COVID-19 public health crisis that began in 2019. Two approaches were used to explain the impact of COVID-19 on the media in Nigeria and the effect of the latter on the spread/containment of the virus. The pandemic directly limited the operations of the media in many ways: socially, economically, and otherwise. On the other hand, both mainstream and social media was instrumental in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 through information, education, and infotainment.

The Anomalous Position of Parasitology in the Medical Curriculum in England

Parasitology ◽  
1924 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-250
Author(s):  
George H. F. Nuttall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Short Courses

Although Parasitology, broadly interpreted, includes the study of parasitic bacteria within its sphere, bacteriology is excluded from consideration here because it is assumed that a knowledge thereof is sufficiently recognised as essential by those who deal with medical education. At any rate bacteriology is more or less adequately taught to medical students and candidates for the Diploma in Public Health, although it receives insufficient consideration in courses leading to the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. On the other hand, parasitology is taught to candidates for the latter diploma to the limited extent that is allowed in the too short courses of instruction that are at present given for the diploma. Medical students in general learn next to nothing of parasitology beyond what they pick up in the course of their preliminary zoological training. I base these statements on personal experience, extending over many years, as teacher and examiner. Similar conclusions to these have been reached by others who are able to form an objective opinion.

scholarly journals COVID – 19: a test for globalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-306
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One

In the last days of 2019, when the whole world was waiting for the moment to enter a new decade, a strange kind of unexplained pneumonia appeared in Wuhan city, China. From the little information as well as attention initially, this epidemic has turned into a pandemic worldwide. The quick-fire coronavirus spread and the response of different countries to it highlight immediate concerns about public health and have a significant impact on the evolving world order and the values that underpin it. This pandemic is unprecedented in its capacity to take advantage of modern globalization, allowing for massive disease spread at a surprising speed. It can say that COVID-19 is an additional blow to the vision and practices of the globalization process that is already under strain. Using the conceptual approach, the article, on the one hand, tried to analyze the challenges that globalization is facing because of COVID-19. On the other hand, the study want to affirm that globalization will still be an irreplaceable trend in the future.

scholarly journals Death − between sanitary regulations and folk customs: Plague in Srem in 1795 and 1796

2015 ◽  
pp. 277-287
Author(s):  
Goran Vasin ◽  
Nenad Ninkovic
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The One ◽  
Health Legislation

The development of human civilization has been accompanied by attempts to eradicate contagious diseases, such as plague, which had a significantly high lethality throughout history. In that respect, in the 18th century the Habsburg Monarchy introduced, at first, various regulations, and afterwards comprehensive public health legislation. This way, many questions were resolved, first and foremost how to prevent the spread of an epidemic. These regulations greatly contrasted the folk customs and religious practice related to burying the dead. This paper presents two contrasting phenomena at the time of the plague epidemic in Srem in the years of 1795 and 1796. On the one hand, measures were taken to fight the epidemic, and on the other hand, there were folk customs related to burial procedures which had a negative effect on the spread of the disease.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Peter Triantafillou ◽  
Naja Vucina
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
Obesity Control ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Promotion Strategies ◽  
The One

This chapter concludes that health promotion strategies and interventions have supplemented and partially recast earlier curative and preventive approaches in both England and Denmark. On the one hand, it is clear that curative approaches and physical prevention both continue to play a fundamental role in public health politics. On the other hand, it seems clear, at least in the areas of obesity control and mental recovery, that health promotion strategies seeking to augment the productivity and vigour of individuals and the population through a wide range of institutional, psychological, and socialising interventions have grown substantially since the 1980s. The chapter concludes that the terms biopower, constructivist neoliberalism and optimistic vitalism are useful concepts to grasp current modes of health politics.

Dampak Pelabuhan Bungkutoko Terhadap Kondisi Sosial Ekonomi Masyarakat Dikawasan Pelabuhan

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Hardianti Hardianti ◽  
Weka Widayati ◽  
La ode Muh. Magribi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Administrative Area

Abstrach: The purpose of this study is to (1) analyze the differences in the socio- economic conditions of the community before and after the existence of Bungkutoko Port, (2) Mapping the existence of Bungkutoko Port. The population in this study were 552 households in Bungkutoko Village. The sample of this research is 85 people in Bungkutoko Village. The results showed (1) There are differences in the socio-economic conditions of the community before and after the Bungkutoko Port. The existence of Bungkutoko Port has a positive impact on the socio-economic conditions of the community, which creates job opportunities, increases community income and improves environmental security. But on the other hand, Bungkutoko Port has not had a positive impact on education and public health. (2) Bungkutoko Port is in the administrative area of Bungkutoko Village, Nambo District, Kendari City. The existence of Bungkutoko Port not only has an impact on the socio-economic conditions of the community, but also has an impact on infrastructure development in the local area.Keywords: Bungkutoko Port; Public; Socio-Economic ConditionKeberadaan Pelabuhan Bungkutoko mempunyai dampak ikutan sehingga perlu untuk dilakukan penelitian. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk (1) Menganalisis perbedaan kondisi sosial ekonomi masyarakat sebelum dan setelah adanya Pelabuhan Bungkutoko, (2) Memetakan keberadaan Pelabuhan Bungkutoko. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah masyarakat di Kelurahan Bungkutoko berjumlah 552 kepala keluarga. Sampel penelitian ini adalah masyarakat di Kelurahan Bungkutoko berjumlah 85 kepala keluarga. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan (1) Terdapat perbedaan kondisi sosial ekonomi masyarakat sebelum dan setelah adanya Pelabuhan Bungkutoko. Keberadaan Pelabuhan Bungkutoko berdampak positif terhadap kondisi sosial ekonomi masyarakat, dimana terciptanya kesempatan kerja, peningkatan pendapatan masyarakat dan peningkatan keamanan lingkungan. Tetapi disisi lain, Pelabuhan Bungkutoko belum memberikan dampak positif bagi pendidikan dan kesehatan masyarakat. (2) Pelabuhan Bungkutoko berada diwilayah administrasi Kelurahan Bungkutoko Kecamatan Nambo Kota Kendari. Keberadaan Pelabuhan Bungkutoko tidak hanya berdampak terhadap kondisi sosial ekonomi masyarakat, tetapi juga berdampak pada pengembangan infrastruktur diwilayah setempat. Kata Kunci: Pelabuhan Bungkutoko; Masyarakat; Kondisi Sosial Ekonomi

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