scholarly journals Understanding the Present Through the Past: A Comparison of Spanish News Coverage of the 1918 Flu and COVID-19 Pandemics

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902110617
Author(s):  
Samantha N. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
News Framing ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Past

Through a comparative analysis of Spanish newspaper coverage of the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics, this article explores the parallels between them, their roles in reflecting and facilitating public perceptions of infectious diseases, the national dialogues they incite, and the search for solutions in a global health crisis. I use qualitative analysis to interpret media themes of contagion as they shift from societal complacency to panic as disaster unfolds. In weaving together Philip Strong’s model for epidemic psychology and Jim A. Kuypers’s rhetorical approach to news framing, I analyze how newspapers communicate changing assumptions about epidemiologic risks during pandemics.

Superbugs in the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Angus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Care System

The promise of a world without disease has been replaced by warnings of evermore virulent pathogens, created by the very drugs that were supposed to save us. Scarcely a day passes without more news of people contracting infections or infectious diseases that cannot be cured by the strongest medicines available. Antimicrobial Resistance is a global health crisis driven by two major factors: the spectacular ability of bacteria to adapt to threats, and a pharmaceutical industry and health care system that puts profit before people. In addition to devastating climate change, the Anthropocene may be defined by epidemics that medicine cannot cure.

scholarly journals Digital hybridization of plastic arts courses in Master teaching:

Palíndromo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (29) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Virginie Ruppin
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Plastic Arts ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Future

In the context of the global health crisis, our research started four years ago on the question of how to reconcile the teaching of the plastic arts and their practice within the training of the future teacher of schools when there is less and less hours of face-to-face lessons is all the more a topical subject. Indeed, at the present time, university courses are conducted remotely. Our study thus raises the question of the quality and content of the distance course in order to bring about plastic practices among students, future teachers. The hourly decline of this teaching over the past few decades questions the legitimacy, the stakes and the place of the student’s plastic practice. Likewise, the changes and challenges of teaching methods, particularly the emergenceof hybrid training through the use of digital technology, question posture changes in the trainer.  

scholarly journals Soft power in times of the plague: the winners and losers of first wave of COVID-19 (winter-summer 2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-67
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pisarska
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Global Solutions ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Key Factor

The aim of the article is to identify the soft power winners and losers of the first wave of the global health crisis caused by COVID-19 (winter–summer 2020); to analyse the factors which have contributed to such outcome; and finally, to extract examples of the best practices, which can serve other states in the next stages of the pandemic. The article argues that there is a correlation between the quality of a country’s response to the global health crisis (both domestically and abroad) and a change in international public perceptions of that state. Moreover, the states that gained the most soft power in 2020, have not done so based solely on their political system or past performance. Instead, a key factor was the existing domestic and foreign policy collaborative culture, which resulted in the ability to get everyone behind a common response to the crisis at home, but also to promote global solutions to the crisis abroad.

scholarly journals Is Spirituality Effective in Addiction Recovery and Prevention?

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian ◽  
Shadi Salehian
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Addiction Recovery ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spirituality And Religion ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Scientific Advances

Affecting millions, the rise of substance abuse, particularly opioids, has become a global health crisis, the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Despite extensive scientific advances in understanding the complex biopsychosocial components of this phenomenon, there is no relief in sight. Yet, research studies during the past twenty years reveal an important role for spirituality and religion in prevention and recovery. The primary purpose of this article is to explore this role, examine various theories that have emerged about the positive influence of spirituality, and consider how an effective approach to prevention and treatment might be realized.

Fitozwiązki i substancje naturalne wspomagające leczenie COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadwiga Mielcarek
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
General Population ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Disease Susceptibility ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Way

The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 a severe acute respiratory syndrome, causes the global mortality and burden of the blockade. The COVID-19 disease, said to be of zoonotic origin, has quickly become the pandemic responsible for the current global health crisis. COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Over the past year, there has been a continued increase in the number of published articles on COVID-19, including reports of infected cases, deaths, disease severity, and disease susceptibility. The goal of many recently published articles is to draw the attention of physicians and pharmacists to the importance of natural products and nutraceuticals in the treatment of COVID-19. It is emphasized that, in the absence of specific drugs for COVID-19, there is an urgent need to find alternative approaches to strengthen the resilience of the general population and pave the way for the development of drugs that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients.

scholarly journals Representation of Emerging COVID-19 in Bangladeshi Newspapers

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Mehnaz Hoque ◽  
Sk. Abu Raihan Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
The Government

This study explains how Bangladeshi media responded during the coronavirus crisis focusing on the issues of news related to COVID-19. The study analyzes the content of a total of 744 articles in the ProthomAlo & The Daily Star,the country's most-read newspapers in-between the timeline from 8th March 2020 to 4th April 2020. It investigates how the COVID-19 presented as `furious’ and `deadly’ virus among the readers. In particular, this study explores the representation pattern of the phenomena of 'emerging deadly infectious diseases' in the newspapers. Using Social Representation Theory (SRT), the study investigates the collective meaning sharing focus on the news coverage during the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh. The study also finds out how the newspapers sideline the representation of this pandemic as a `health crisis' to ` national economic crisis.' Thus the representation covers up the government irresponsibility by focusing more on `unconscious mass' and`limitations' of a developing country. Therefore, the `panic' increases and the solution of this pandemic muffled under it. Also, this study provides some tentative explanations for this linguistic representation by editorial sections of these newspapers.

scholarly journals A systematic study on the recent crisis in public health in Kerala

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saptashwa Datta
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Rural Districts ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Tract Infections

Introduction: The state of Kerala in the country of India has been getting on the wrong side of nature over the past few years. From raging floods to massive outbreaks of viral diseases, the state of Kerala has been in turmoil over the past few years. The rains and floods have ceased leaving behind a catastrophic world of copious vector-borne infectious diseases. Moreover, a migrant crisis has been looming over the state for the past few decades resulting in an accumulation of various other dangerous diseases from multiple different parts of the country. Even after taking into consideration the great health care facilities in Kerala there have been multiple reports of infectious disease outbreaks, especially in rural districts. This short review is written with the purpose to review the facts into a single entity that can provide solid proof and hence evoke a stricter sense of awareness among communities to minimize the losses and prevent the exigency of public health that can occur not too far away in the foreseeable future. Methods: Various databases were searched like Scopus and Google scholar and all articles related to reported infections in the state of Kerala and the factors which can lead to the public health crisis were selected and included in the review. Results: A multiple numbers of articles on viral infections were obtained in the various databases. Most of the bacterial infections were reported as urinary and respiratory tract infections. Migrant crisis and 2018 floods were two of the most recent contributing factors that can lead to an emergency in public health in the state. Conclusion: There can be a sudden unexpected outbreak of infectious diseases if the government does not carefully monitor the rural districts like Alappuzha.  

scholarly journals ANALISIS PERPUTARAN KAS DALAM MENILAI RETURN ON ASSET PADA PT. PRASIDHA ANEKA NIAGA, Tbk

PARAMETER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Netti Natarida Marpaung
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Profitability Analysis ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research aim to find out how cash turnover in assessing profitability is measured with return on asset. Object of this research PT. Prasidha Aneka Niaga, Tbk. in 2014-2018 periode. The research is a research of two variables. The independent variable is cash turnover while the dependent variable is profitability. The method used is descriptive qualitative analysis. The analysis technique used is teh technique of cash trunover analysis and profitability analysis that measured with return on asset. Based on the calculation of cash turnover analysis, the results of the cash turnover at PT. Prasidha Aneka Niaga, Tbk for the period of 2014 - 2018 from year to year experiencing fluctuations in cash turnover, but when viewed from industry standards is very good value, because it has a turnover of above ten times each year. For the profitability of PT. Prasidha Aneka Niaga, Tbk also experiences profitability fluctuations every year, if viewed from the industry standards in 2014, 2016 and 2017 is good, while for 2015 and 2018 it is very good. Based on a comparative analysis of cash turnover and profitability over the past five years an average of 20.75 times for cash turnover, while for profitability of 5.62%. It can be interpreted that 20.75 times cash turnover will be followed by 5.62% profitability. And the rest is followed by other factors that did not contribute to this study. From the result of the analysis at PT. Prasidha Aneka Niaga, Tbk over the past five years an average cash trunover of 20,75 times has been found which is very good. Whereas for profitability measured by the retun on assets (ROA) approach, a five years average of 5,63% is good.

scholarly journals Vaccines and global health

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1579) ◽  
pp. 2733-2742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Greenwood ◽  
David Salisbury ◽  
Adrian V. S. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
New Vaccines

Vaccines have made a major contribution to global health in recent decades but they could do much more. In November 2011, a Royal Society discussion meeting, ‘New vaccines for global health’, was held in London to discuss the past contribution of vaccines to global health and to consider what more could be expected in the future. Papers presented at the meeting reviewed recent successes in the deployment of vaccines against major infections of childhood and the challenges faced in developing vaccines against some of the world's remaining major infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), malaria and tuberculosis. The important contribution that development of more effective veterinary vaccines could make to global health was also addressed. Some of the social and financial challenges to the development and deployment of new vaccines were reviewed. The latter issues were also discussed at a subsequent satellite meeting, ‘Accelerating vaccine development’, held at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. Delegates at this meeting considered challenges to the more rapid development and deployment of both human and veterinary vaccines and how these might be addressed. Papers based on presentations at the discussion meeting and a summary of the main conclusions of the satellite meeting are included in this issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

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