scholarly journals Infrastructure of life: public address, listening and crowds in the Delhi metro and Kumbh

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372110370
Author(s):  
Mehak Sawhney
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Public Address ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban India ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Address System ◽  
Human Density

Through an ethnographic study of the Delhi metro and Kumbh fair, this article explores the public address system as an infrastructure of life in urban India. Amplified sound is the singular means to address crowds during emergencies which makes it significant for understanding mass mediation and public safety. Since millions of people travel in the Delhi metro every day, and the Kumbh fair is the largest human gathering in the world, human density and scale as a predominant Southern reality is the premise of this research. It offers an intersubjective understanding of crowds through empathy and care, and reveals the life-saving potentiality of infrastructures when the masses are at risk.

scholarly journals Autism, Equity, and How the Journal Came to Be

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Megan Krasnodembski ◽  
Stephanie Côté ◽  
Jonathan Lai
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Residential Settings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The World ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
The One

Over the past year a pandemic has swept across the world and, unsurprisingly, revealed gross inequalities across all aspects of life. We saw this in the constant pandemic media coverage that overlooked the experiences of the disability community and, more specifically, the autism community, at least at first. Furthermore, let us not forget in the early days of the pandemic that in countries such as Italy, people without disabilities were prioritized for life-saving machines (Andrews et al., 2020; Lund & Ayers, 2020), contributing to a culture of fear for the one in five Canadians with a disability (Morris et al., 2018) about what would happen to them here. As COVID-19 reached Canadian shores we saw this pattern of inequity quickly replicated within our society. For instance, Canadians with developmental disabilities, such as autism, living in residential settings did not receive the same level of support as those living in different kinds of residences such as retirement residences (Abel & Lai, 2020). Likewise, the initial claims that only people with ‘preexisting conditions’ were at risk implied that those at risk were somehow less valuable to society. Nothing has highlighted the very real problem and extent of ableism within Canadian society as a whole more than these injustices arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is what planted the seed for the Canadian Journal of Autism Equity (CJAE). 

Traditional Medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Pavitra Solanki ◽  
Yasmin Sultana ◽  
Satyavir Singh
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Volatile Oil ◽  
World Health ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Organization

Everybody is at risk of being infected by drug-resistant microscopic organisms. Managing with sickness has never been less demanding within the history of our species. At the current rate of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in microbes, specialists foresee that battling infections tuberculosis, HIV, and intestinal sickness will become more complicated. Antimicrobial resistance is rendering numerous life-saving drugs useless. Antibiotic-resistant microbes, known as “superbugs,” are getting to be more various and more harmful, thanks to the proceeding abuse of anti-microbials. Natural medication offers an alternative to these progressively ineffectual drugs. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), traditional medicine is a holistic term enclosing diverse health practices. Concurring to a report by the College of Maryland Therapeutic Center, turmeric's volatile oil serves as a common anti-microbial.

scholarly journals Allocating scarce life-saving resources: the proper role of age

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-106792
Author(s):  
Govind Persad ◽  
Steven Joffe
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Younger Patients ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Patients At Risk ◽  
Individual Perspective

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced clinicians, policy-makers and the public to wrestle with stark choices about who should receive potentially life-saving interventions such as ventilators, ICU beds and dialysis machines if demand overwhelms capacity. Many allocation schemes face the question of whether to consider age. We offer two underdiscussed arguments for prioritising younger patients in allocation policies, which are grounded in prudence and fairness rather than purely in maximising benefits: prioritising one’s younger self for lifesaving treatments is prudent from an individual perspective, and prioritising younger patients works to narrow health disparities by giving priority to patients at risk of dying earlier in life, who are more likely to be subject to systemic disadvantage. We then identify some confusions in recent arguments against considering age.

scholarly journals Features and Ways to Ensure the Availability of Vital Pharmaceuticals for Pharmacy Organizations in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Nikolai Gennadevich Durnov ◽  
Alexander Vladimirovich Grigoriev ◽  
Maria Nikolaevna Сhernikova ◽  
Maria Sergeevna Halimzyanova ◽  
Marina Mikhailovna Krekova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Home Delivery ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Over The Counter Medicines

The article describes the features and ways of ensuring the availability of vital pharmaceuticals to pharmacy organizations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was noted that during the pandemic, pharmacists from all over the world made maximum efforts to ensure an uninterrupted and safe supply of medicines to patients, despite the unprecedented situation. The social distancing policy has been widely implemented to maintain the personal safety of patients and reduce the number of personal visits. Also, vital strategies and practices have been implemented in some foreign countries, including the supply of conventional medicines at state-subsidized prices, the maximum monthly supply of some prescription drugs has been provided and limits on the purchase of over-the-counter medicines have been set, home delivery of medicines to people at risk and people in isolation has been organized. The experience of pharmaceutical organizations during the pandemic has shown that it is necessary to monitor the predicted shortage of medicines, especially in regional pharmacies, as well as to control the workload in pharmacies and timely control of online orders of medicines to eliminate frustration and anxiety in patients who need life-saving medicines.

“Be Alert, Not Alarmed!”

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-71
Author(s):  
Mark Davis ◽  
Davina Lohm
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Challenge ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

Chapter 3 examines the keynote of pandemic communications in 2009: “Be alert, not alarmed.” A central communication challenge of the 2009 pandemic was advising publics throughout the world to prepare themselves for a possible health catastrophe, but without inspiring panic and therefore jeopardizing effective government. This imperative has been characterized by scholars in the field as the “Goldilocks” approach to messaging, underlining the folktale qualities of the public life of pandemics. As people in our research pointed out, reassuring the general public that they should not be overly alarmed undermined the sense of urgency that came into the lives of “at risk” people. The chapter therefore explores how our research participants contended with the preparedness message and its potentially contradictory effects.

The Public Address System Improves English Instruction

1952 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 550
Author(s):  
Margaret Gregory ◽  
William J. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Public Address ◽  
The Public ◽  
Address System ◽  
English Instruction

The public address system of the john bartram high school of philadelphia

1940 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 391-392
Author(s):  
Chesley H. Johnson ◽  
Simon M. Hunn
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Address ◽  
The Public ◽  
Address System

scholarly journals Boons amidst the banes- during COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-530
Author(s):  
Neethu George ◽  
Rock Britto ◽  
Nawin Jai Vignesh ◽  
Janani Shree Suresh ◽  
Jaswini Navarajan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Case ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The World

India recorded its first Covid-19 positive case in Kerala on January 30, 2020. This was followed by nationwide lockdown in 4 different phases from 25th March to 31st May 2020 and an unlock period thereafter. This pandemic brought many unseen challenges to the world. On one side human lives were put at risk, on the other side nature was recreating itself. Many diseases other than covid dropped down in massive percentage. The public understood the importance of handwashing, vaccination, covering mouth and nose while coughing and sneezing during this pandemic. Children facing this Covid pandemic had understood the importance of the role played by hygiene and social distancing in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Every coin has two faces, likewise, this pandemic has both positive and negative effects and we focus on positive effects in this article.

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