Health Protection and Health Risks in a Changing World

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-240
Author(s):  
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Major Transitions ◽  
Health Dynamics ◽  
Learning And Collaboration ◽  
Health And Well Being

Human beings in the twenty-first century are facing major pressure to manage a rapidly expanding repertoire of health risks and are experiencing various major transitions. To protect health effectively, practitioners and workers in health protection, regardless of being health- or non-health-based, must learn about terminology, acquire knowledge and skills, and understand the frontiers of other disciplines that may facilitate their efforts in improving health. Due to the dynamic changes that influence modern living, the scope and nature of health protection will only become more complex. Mutual learning and collaboration among disciplines and sectors will be essential to enable formulation of effective cross-disciplinary policies and actions to protect health and well-being. Beside the major health protection themes of emergency and disaster preparedness, climate changes, infectious disease control, environmental risks, and issues of sustainability and planetary health, dynamics and transitions that may contribute to major changes in health profile and risks deserve careful monitoring and public health policy reconsideration.

scholarly journals Statistical analysis for the impact of smoking on the behavior and health of Qatari adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-Salam ◽  
Mahjabeen Ramzan ◽  
Zainab Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Significant Percentage ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Health Objectives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThe links between the use of tobacco and health risks are well known. Most of the younger smokers reside in Asia which includes Qatar, the focus country of this study. Cigarette smoking among children is rising at an alarming rate worldwide including Qatar. As youth make up a significant percentage of the population and to achieve the health objectives of the Qatar Vision 2030, it is essential to ensure the health and well-being of adolescents, as they are the future of Qatar. This study focuses on exploring the patterns of tobacco use and its impacts on the adolescents by conducting a survey in different schools across Qatar. The questionnaire was administered in five schools, selected by proportional random sampling. The responses were recorded from the sample for general questions regarding interest in physical activities, relationship with family and friends, mental satisfaction, health, academics and access to cigarettes.

Health and Well-Being in Early Adolescents Using Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adela Yarcheski ◽  
Noreen E. Mahon ◽  
Thomas J. Yarcheski
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Health And Well Being

Meditation as a Health Patterning Modality in Nursing Practice

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet M. Malinski
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Clinical Vignettes ◽  
Health Patterning ◽  
Experience Of Flow ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract: Meditation has been practiced throughout the centuries. This article explores meditation as a health patterning modality for nurses to employ for themselves and to facilitate clients' knowing participation in their change process. The theoretical framework for this interpretation is Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings. Meditation has the potential to promote awareness of the experience of flow in the human/environment patterning process. Out of this evolves an expanded awareness of creative potentials for change. Two clinical vignettes are offered to illustrate this process. Summary: Meditation is a health patterning modality that can facilitate knowing participation in change. It broadens awareness of potentials that can be actualized as nurses and clients seek to promote their own health and well-being. Meditation can assist both in experiencing the rhythm of their human/environment mutual process and open them to an expanded field image. According to Rogers, this experiencing is pandimensional, transcending traditionally perceived limitations of space and time. Meditation opens the door onto new and creative potentialities in the process of becoming.

scholarly journals Afterword: Quantifying, Mediating and Intervening: The R Number and the Politics of Health in the Twenty-First Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 465-476
Author(s):  
Peter Miller
Keyword(s):  
Reproduction Number ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractThis essay discusses the unassailable power and popularity that numbers have come to assume during the COVID-19 pandemic. Epidemiological statistics have come to play a remarkable and public role, regulating our lives, while shaping and justifying political decisions. This essay traces the emergence of one particular number, the “R” number or reproduction number in multiple and dispersed sites, drawing attention to the bifurcation of demography and epidemiology in its emergence. It examines how and why the R number came to act as a crucial mediating instrument during the pandemic, linking the health and well-being of the population with the health of the economy and supporting arguments both in favour of and against restrictions of various kinds.

scholarly journals 新冠疫情背景下的人類命運共同體探析

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Junxiang LIU ◽  
Qiang YUE ◽  
Xiaomu MA
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
Continuous Progress ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Control ◽  
Health And Well Being

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.The COVID-19 pandemic requires people and political bodies to reflect on the abundant and complicated relationships between human beings, governments, and organizations. We hold that Prof. Sass emphasizes the urgency and necessity of the view that “life is interconnected.” With the continuous progress of globalization, mankind has become an interdependent community with a shared future. However, global cooperation and communication face numerous challenges due to the diversity of cultures, national conditions, and competing interests. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven individuals and political bodies to discuss effective measures and control the disaster together, which demands that a basic consensus be reached on how to manage the tension between individual freedom and interests and public health and well-being. Even more importantly, the pursuit of happiness is the common goal of mankind. Solidarity and mutual aid are required to create a stable, harmonious, healthy, and orderly community. Chinese traditional philosophy can contribute some wisdom and strategies to build similar but not identical bodies and societies. DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 8 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

Natural Environments, Health, and Well-Being

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilda van den Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Heat Waves ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Trees ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Immune System Development ◽  
Tree Canopy Cover ◽  
Health And Well Being

Human beings are part of natural ecosystems and depend on them for their survival. In a rapidly changing environment and with increasing urbanization, this dependence is challenged. Natural environments affect human health and well-being both directly and indirectly. Urban green and blue areas provide opportunities for stress recovery and physical activity. They offer spaces for social interactions in the neighborhood and places for children’s play. Chronic stress, physical inactivity, and lack of social cohesion are three major risk factors for noncommunicable diseases, and therefore abundant urban greenery is an important asset for health promotion. Through numerous ecosystem services natural environments play a fundamental role in protecting health. Various populations depend on nature for basic material, such as fresh water, wood, fuel, and nutritious food. Biodiverse natural areas are also necessary for regulating the environment and for mitigating and adapting to climate change. For example, tree canopy cover can reduce the urban heat island effect substantially, preventing excess morbidity during heat waves. This natural heat-reducing effect also lessens the need for air conditioning systems and as a consequence decreases energy spending. Urban trees also support storm-water management, preventing flooding and related health issues. Air pollution is a major threat to population health. Urban trees sequester pollutants and, even though the effect may be relatively small, given the severity of the problem it may still have some public-health implications. The evidence around the effects of natural environments on health and well-being is steadily increasing. Several pathways and mechanisms are suggested, such as health services through functional ecosystems, early life exposure to biodiverse microbiota, which is important for the immune-system development, and sensory exposure, which has direct neurobiological impact supporting cognitive development and stress resilience. Support for several pathways is at hand that shows lower mortality rates and prevalence of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, healthier pregnancy outcomes, reduced health inequalities, and improved mental health in urban areas with greater amounts of green and blue space. Altogether, the interactions between healthy natural environments and healthy people are multiple and complex, and require interdisciplinary attention and action for full understanding and resilient development of both nature and human beings.

Human biology and the urban environment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip James
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Stress Hormone ◽  
Disease Patterns ◽  
Cellular Inflammation ◽  
Health And Well Being

Climate change and the rapid movement of people and goods over great distances are changing global disease patterns. Human health and well-being are also being adversely affected by the absence of biodiverse, vegetation-rich green spaces. The human body adapts poorly to urban life. The result is ill health. A typology of interactions (intentional, incidental, and indirect) between people and nature is set out. Similarly, benefits of contact with nature in terms of physiological, psychological, cognitive, and social factors. The emergent central mechanism linking urban environments to ill health is studied. Urban environments cause chronic, low level stress resulting in the release of cortisone (a stress hormone), decreased physical activity, and increased calorie intake, all of which lead to chronic cellular inflammation and to the life-style diseases of the twenty-first century: depression, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia.

scholarly journals ‘Sacrifice zone’: The environment–territory–place of disposable lives

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
The Poor ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract ‘Sacrifice zone’ is how a certain type of segregated and stigmatized space has become internationally known. In such a space, the physical and mental health and the quality of life of human beings are compromised in the name of ‘economic development’ or ‘progress’ – but ultimately for the sake of capitalist interests. This article offers a discussion of how environmental issues, power relations and the production of subjectivity intersect in the production of a kind of space that is typical of how residential segregation correlates with patterns of industrial location and the neglect of the health and well-being of the poor by the state apparatus in the (semi) periphery of the capitalist world system.

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