scholarly journals Precision pandemic preparedness-Improving diagnostics with metagenomics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumeren N. Govender
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Routine Laboratory ◽  
Pandemic Preparedness ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

The threat posed by novel pandemics in the future remain active. Equipping our routine laboratory with clinical metagenomics to detect unknown threats early on offers a considerable advantage, and may be feasible and scalable with the ability to identify complicated infectious diseases in routine care. Though several technical and regulatory challenges still exist, clinical metagenomics may improve individual patient outcomes, and provide earlier warning signs to improve pandemic preparedness.

COMBINED VACCINES – THE FUTURE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES PREVENTION

2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
M. P. Kostinov ◽  
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A. M. Kostinova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
The Future

Preparedness 3.0: Addressing the Future

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 728-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges C. Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Public Health Preparedness ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
State Sponsorship ◽  
The Future

ABSTRACTThe last 14 years has taught us that that we are facing a new reality; a reality in which public health emergencies are a common occurrence. Today, we live in a world with dangerous people without state sponsorship who are an enormous threat to our safety; one where emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are waiting to break out; a world where the benefits of globalization in trade, transportation, and social media brings threats to our communities faster and with a greater risk than ever before. Even climate change has entered into the preparedness equation, bringing with it the forces of nature in the form of extreme weather and its complications. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:728–729)

scholarly journals Spreading predictability in complex networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Zhao ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Yong Yu ◽  
Jun-Yan Zhao ◽  
Duan-Bing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Complex Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Vaccination Strategies ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Good Consistency ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rumor Control

AbstractMany state-of-the-art researches focus on predicting infection scale or threshold in infectious diseases or rumor and give the vaccination strategies correspondingly. In these works, most of them assume that the infection probability and initially infected individuals are known at the very beginning. Generally, infectious diseases or rumor has been spreading for some time when it is noticed. How to predict which individuals will be infected in the future only by knowing the current snapshot becomes a key issue in infectious diseases or rumor control. In this report, a prediction model based on snapshot is presented to predict the potentially infected individuals in the future, not just the macro scale of infection. Experimental results on synthetic and real networks demonstrate that the infected individuals predicted by the model have good consistency with the actual infected ones based on simulations.

scholarly journals Emerging zoonoses in Indonesia: implication for the future

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Toni Wandra
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
World Health ◽  
Emerging Zoonoses ◽  
The Future ◽  
Health Organization

World Health Organization (WHO) defines zoonotic diseases (zoonoses) as those diseases and infections which are naturally transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans. More than 250 zoonoses have been described, over 60% of pathogens that cause diseases in humans are zoonoses of animals, and 75% of emerging infectious diseases. Most pandemics are caused by zoonoses.

Safe burn excision prior to military repatriation: an achievable goal?

2018 ◽  
Vol 164 (5) ◽  
pp. 358-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ojas Pujji ◽  
S L A Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Standard Treatment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Future ◽  
Achievable Goal ◽  
Partial Thickness Burns ◽  
The Military ◽  
Improve Patient

Burn excision is the gold standard treatment for full thickness and some deep partial thickness burns. Early burn excision (24–96 hours) has been shown to improve patient outcomes. However, in the military setting, transporting the patient to a centre which can provide this procedure can be delayed. Especially as control of airspace in the future may be hampered due to the political landscape. For this reason, focus on how to achieve safer burn excision prior to repatriation should be addressed. This paper considers the barriers to early burn excision in the military setting and offers potential solutions for the future.

Saving as a Path for Female Empowerment and Entrepreneurship in Rural Peru

2021 ◽  
pp. 146499342110352
Author(s):  
Marianne Daher ◽  
Antonia Rosati ◽  
Andrea Jaramillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Social Support Networks ◽  
Considerable Advantage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Women's Lives

Much research has identified the difficulties of promoting women’s empowerment using microcredit, but there has been little research on the potential for empowerment from promoting women’s savings. We address this gap through a qualitative study of three women’s savings programmes in the Highlands of Peru. The results reveal changes in several domains of women’s lives (economic, personal and relational), emphasizing that these programmes enable them to think about the future, expand their social support networks, and become entrepreneurs. We conclude that savings interventions have considerable advantage over microcredit programmes for facilitating female empowerment and that the merits of these interventions go far beyond financial inclusion with significant impacts on women’s psychosocial well-being and broader empowerment.

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