Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-234
Author(s):  
D. Hugh Whittaker ◽  
Timothy J. Sturgeon ◽  
Toshie Okita ◽  
Tianbiao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Political Effects

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has been traced to early December 2019, just as we were submitting our completed manuscript for publication. We were tempted to comb through the manuscript for ways to address what has rapidly emerged as an unprecedented global public health crisis, economic crisis, and more. But, we decided to leave the text be for several reasons. The first is the ongoing nature of the pandemic and its fallout. The scope of the damage and its long-term social, economic, and political effects will not be fully visible for years, and we are resistant to the business of prognostication. The second is that we believe the book, as it stands, can help make sense of some of the distinctive features of the pandemic, including its unprecedented speed of transmission to all corners of the globe and the economic chaos engendered by the disruption of industries embedded in the elaborate global supply chains and technology ecosystems that comprise GVCs. Third, it is very likely that the pandemic will intensify, if not actually cause, the overlapping and interacting crises that we depicted in ...

scholarly journals Life versus Capital: The COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of life

2021 ◽  
pp. 092137402110143
Author(s):  
Nicholas De Genova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Gainful Employment ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Labor Power ◽  
Natural Calamity

Like all ostensibly “natural” disasters, the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic unceasingly reveals the depths of social inequality and political myopia or governmental recklessness that predictably exacerbate the effects of a more strictly natural calamity. The pandemic thereby exposes the grotesque disparities in how illness, death, and suffering are unevenly distributed. As the COVID-19 public health crisis has summarily provoked a global economic crisis, furthermore, it is simply unthinkable to comprehend the real ramifications of the pandemic outside of the sociopolitical relations of labor and capital, more generally. Furthermore, the global public health crisis commands that we reflect anew on the relations between human life and state power. Both for those who have historically and enduringly been subjected to expulsion from gainful employment, as for those whose labor-power is a commodity of choice for capital, exceedingly selected for hyper-exploitation, the coronavirus pandemic is a toxic matter of both class and race. These dire and increasingly desperate circumstances, however, reveal not only what is most barbaric about capitalist social relations but also the opportunity latent within this crisis.

Synergising International Public Health Law and International Disaster Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Pratik DIXIT
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
International Public Health ◽  
Health Regulations

There is no time more opportune to review the workings of the International Health Regulations (IHR) than the present COVID-19 crisis. This article analyses the theoretical and practical aspects of international public health law (IPHL), particularly the IHR, to argue that it is woefully unprepared to protect human rights in times of a global public health crisis. To rectify this, the article argues that the IHR should design effective risk reduction and response strategies by incorporating concepts from international disaster law (IDL). Along similar lines, this article suggests that IDL also has a lot to learn from IPHL in terms of greater internationalisation and institutionalisation. Institutionalisation of IDL on par with IPHL will provide it with greater legitimacy, transparency and accountability. This article argues that greater cross-pollination of ideas between IDL and IPHL is necessary in order to make these disciplines more relevant for the future.

An Essay on the Political Economy Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic as Twin Crises

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Irfan Kalaycı
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Twin Crises ◽  
Trade Education

The subject and purpose of this study is to examine the new type of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has turned into a global epidemic, with an economic-political approach. There are twin crises in the form of a health crisis (high human deaths) and an economic crisis (recession). Trillion-dollar aid packages from governments and international financial organizations also show that this global public health crisis has created an economic crisis. In the context of these crises, G-20 countries that did not intervene in their transmission channels in a timely manner showed the worst situations. This epidemic, calculated with the SIR model, is global, but the measures are local. What makes a clean, masked, and socially distant life obligatory against the risk of contamination is that this epidemic locks or restricts the whole economy, especially trade, education, and tourism. Measures called “new normalization” have started to relax in order to prevent further increase in unemployment and poverty.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Pandemic: a major public health crisis for the developed and developing world

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 366-369
Author(s):  
Rooh Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Suleman Rana ◽  
Mehmood Qadir ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
Niaz Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Viral Infection ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Day By Day

Pandemic of novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in China is now become global public health crisis. At present 87.64% of the world is infected by this deadly illness. The risk from this epidemic depends on the nature of the virus, including how well it transmits from person to person, and the complications resulting from this current illness. The novel coronavirus has killed thousands of people in China and other countries as well; its rate of mortality is increasing day by day. There is an urgent need to control the virus by developing vaccine or any other antiviral drugs to save the world from this deadly viral infection.

scholarly journals Renal Transplants In Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Kidney Transplant Recipients ◽  
Renal Transplants ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global public health crisis and a pandemic of international concern. The delivery of transplant care worldwide is severely challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the inherent risks of immunosuppression, kidney transplant recipients are also at higher risk of getting infected with the coronavirus.

scholarly journals Ubiquitous e-Teaching and e-Learning: China’s Massive Adoption of Online Education and Launching MOOCs Internationally during the COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yong Xiong ◽  
Que Ling ◽  
Xiaoli Li
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Massive Online Open Course ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Global Learners

China had made a remarkable headway in online education provision during the first quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, a global public health crisis that acted as a catalyst for the uptake in online education as a method for students’ e-learning and teachers’ e-teaching at a vast number of institutions worldwide. China’s launching of XuetangX Global and iCourse International, two massive online open course (MOOC) platforms in April 2020 to provide distant e-learning solutions to global learners at a time they were most needed, proves to be a timely move as the global challenge caused by this pandemic turned out to be an opportunity in disguise for online education internationally. This article centers around China’s opportune development in online education and launching university MOOCs internationally in the height of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and examines its preparedness, implementation, and impact.

scholarly journals Identification of the Biosynthetic Gene Cluster for the Organoarsenical Antibiotic Arsinothricin

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana E. Galván ◽  
Ngozi P. Paul ◽  
Jian Chen ◽  
Kunie Yoshinaga-Sakurai ◽  
Sagar M. Utturkar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Gene Cluster ◽  
Biosynthetic Gene Cluster ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Biosynthetic Gene ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
New Class ◽  
Public Health Crisis

Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global public health crisis, calling for urgent development of novel potent antibiotics. We propose that arsinothricin and related arsenic-containing compounds may be the progenitors of a new class of antibiotics to extend our antibiotic era.

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