scholarly journals Prawo do życia i zdrowia a skuteczność kampanii społecznych na rzecz poprawy bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego w Polsce

2021 ◽  
pp. 230-250
Author(s):  
Maria Michałowska ◽  
Teresa Gądek-Hawlena
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Current Data ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic Safety ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Among many areas of human activity resulting in the development of civilization, it is possible to identify those significantly threatening his health and life. One of them is increasing mobility, that brings many benefits, but also lead to high social, economic and environmental costs of road traffic. According to the current data provided by World Health Organization, road accidents are listed as one of the ten leading causes of death in the world. In order to protect human life and health, international organisations, national gov- ernments, actors and organisations undertake a number of actions aimed at changing the behaviour of road traffic participants. Initiatives aimed at motivating road traffic participants to behave correctly include social campaigns. In Poland there are many social campaigns for the improvement of road traffic safety At the same time, it should be stressed that the preventive nature of this type of action makes it impossible to assess its effectiveness unequivocally. The article presents the results of direct studies on the recognition of social campaigns for the improvement of road safety in Poland and the assessment of their actual influence on the improvement of safety by road traffic participants.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Disease-19 (Covid-19) Pandemic Response Through The Universal Defense: The Role Of Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 606-616
Author(s):  
Atam ◽  
Pujo Widodo ◽  
Helda Risman
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Role Theory ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan China has threatened the safety and affected all aspects of human life throughout the world both in European, American, African, Middle Eastern, Australian and Asian countries including Indonesia. The problem of the epidemic cannot yet be fully addressed by the World Health Organization (WHO) so that all countries in the world competing to find a vaccine to tackle the outbreak. The latest development of a case that has been declared a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) last March shows that more than 4 million people have been infected with fatalities of nearly three hundred thousand people in more than two hundred countries. This condition then gave rise to the question in the public how the role of state institutions in responding to threats to public security, especially the intelligence sector, whose information is not widely known to the public. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of Intelligence in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic within the framework of the defence of the Indonesian universe. Role theory is the author's analysis instrument to spell out the description of the role and importance of Intelligence in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is written in a qualitative methodology using a phenomenological approach and data collected from interviews and documentation studies. This research concludes that Intelligence has a real and significant role in the level of identification and detection of outbreaks and their impact so that it becomes a vital input in the formulation of policies relevant to the country in responding to the pandemic.

scholarly journals Identification of Risk Factors Influencing Road Traffic Accidents

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2417-2421 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Touahmia
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Seat Belt ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Traffic Accidents ◽  
The World ◽  
Traffic Law Enforcement ◽  
Health Organization

Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are becoming a major problem around the world, incurring enormous losses of human and economic resources. Recent reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that each year more than 1.25 million people are killed and 50 million are injured in road traffic accidents worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, statistics show that at least one traffic accident occurs every minute, causing up to 7,000 deaths and over 39,000 injuries annually. In this study, the main causes of RATs in the province of Hail are examined. The data was collected through the use of a survey which was developed to evaluate the effect of influencing parameters on RTA rate. The results show that 67% of RTAs result from human factors, 29% from road conditions and 4% from vehicle defects. Excessive speed and violation of traffic rules and regulations were found to be the main causes of RATs. Low rates of compliance with speed limit signs and seat-belt regulations were also observed. These findings highlight the need of strengthening effective traffic law enforcement alongside with improving traffic safety and raising public awareness.

scholarly journals Mental health and COVID-19 in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 008124632110015
Author(s):  
Siphelele Nguse ◽  
Douglas Wassenaar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Human Life ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

COVID-19, the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has affected most parts of the globe since its first appearance in the city of Wuhan, China, in December 2019. As a result, the World Health Organization declared the virus a global public health crisis and a pandemic within 2 weeks, after the virus had spread to 114 countries with 118 000 recorded cases and 4291 deaths due to the virus and related complications. The World Health Organization declaration is indicative of the enormous impact of the pandemic on human life globally. South Africa has not been exempted from that impact. While the pandemic has affected all South Africans in various ways, the poor have been most affected due to structural inequality, poverty, unemployment, and lack of access to quality health care and other services. Furthermore, public mental health has also been negatively affected by the pandemic, and this comes against a backdrop of an ailing mental health care system. We argue that the psychology profession, as a mental health profession and behavioural science, working as part of a multidisciplinary team, ought to play a significant role in addressing the mental health ramifications of the pandemic. In so doing, lessons can be drawn from other countries while establishing contextual immediate and long-term interventions.

The First Wealth is Health: Assessing the World Health Organization’s Impact on a High African Disease Burden

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
World Health ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Health Organization

Underdeveloped regions of the world are plagued by a high prevalence of communicable diseases. Their deleterious effects on the quality of human life in such areas are clearly observable, making this a phenomenon worthy of sustained investigation. While no single factor determines the success or failure of development in a region, social scientists have attributed a measurable reduction in development capabilities to the enormously suppressive economic, social and psychological burdens of these communicable diseases. The institution of the World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations, exists with a mandate to mitigate the harms of high disease burdens upon afflicted populations. In this paper, I evaluate the efficacy of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s work combating communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa through an examination of its liberal methodology. To do so, I examine the mandate and methods of the World Health Organization with the aim of comprehending how its institutional features successfully promote consensus building and collaboration between domestic and international actors. I conclude that the WHO’s success stems from its entrenched philosophy of liberalism, an international relations perspective focused on creating cooperative ties between international actors. This finding is significant because it provides insight into how the social nature of communicable diseases makes international cooperation within all relevant political levels of analysis an indispensible component of disease management strategies.

Road Traffic Related Injury Research and Informatics

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (05) ◽  
pp. 474-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Al-Shorbaji ◽  
R. Krishnamurthy ◽  
M. Marschollek ◽  
D. C. Mattfeld ◽  
K. Bartolomeos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Added Value ◽  
World Health ◽  
Electronic Patient Records ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

SummaryThe United Nations has recently adopted 17 sustainable development goals for 2030, including ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, and making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Road injuries remain among the ten leading causes of death in the world, and are projected to increase with rapidly increasing motorisation globally. Lack of comprehensive data on road injuries has been identified as one of the barriers for effective implementation of proven road safety interventions. Building, linking and analysing electronic patient records in conjunction with establishing injury event and care registries can substantially contribute to healthy lives and safe transportation. Appropriate use of new technological approaches and health informatics best practices could provide significant added value to WHO’s global road safety work and assist Member States in identifying prevention targets, monitoring progress and improving quality of care to reduce injury-related deaths. This paper encourages the initiation of new multidisciplinary research at a global level.© World Health Organization 2015. All rights reserved.The World Health Organization has granted Schattauer Publishers and the authors permission for the reproduction of this article.The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.

scholarly journals Smart Safety Helmet for Bike Riders using IoT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Dharani P ◽  
Ganesh T ◽  
Gopinath V ◽  
Sharmasth Vali Y
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
World Health ◽  
Road Accidents ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Smart Safety ◽  
Two Wheeler

According to the law of the Indian government as per section 129 of the motor vehicle act of 1988 briefly explains the motorcycle or two-wheeler rider is mandatory to wear the helmet while driving and the recent survey conducted on road accidents by the world health organization (WHO). This WHO organization has briefly mentioned the cause and the prevention of road accidents that are happened around the world. They also mentioned the highest death rate that took place in India and the survey also reported as per the rate 1.5 lakh of road death has been accounted for by each year approximately. The above article motivates us to develop a system that is capable of providing safety and precaution to the bike rider. We designed a system that is capable of detecting the rider is whether wearing the helmet or not. Then detecting if the rider has consumed alcohol or not, whether if these two conditions are yet satisfied then only the motor will ignite or else it will not ignite. In case an accident occurred, our system is capable of detecting the accident and its location approximately. We implanted the led strip indication in the helmet unit to reduce the percentage of an accident during night times.

scholarly journals Exemption of behind-the-wheel driving test for novice young drivers: A serious public health concern

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-61
Author(s):  
Imran Bari ◽  
Nino Paichadze ◽  
Adnan Hyder
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Road traffic injuries (RTIs) continue to emerge as a serious public health issue across the world; according to the World Health Organization, every year, almost 1.35 million individuals lose their lives, and approximately 25 million injuries are caused by road traffic crashes (World Health Organization, 2018). These RTIs are the leading cause of death for children and young adults between 5-29 years of age (World Health Organization, 2018). Under the current situation of COVID-19 pandemic, there have been reports suggesting a profound decline in RTIs because of reduced traffic on the world’s roads (Job, 2020); however, amid this pandemic, some states in the United Sates have proposed controversial road traffic policies that can jeopardize road safety. The Governor of the State of Georgia, the United States, recently, through an executive order, waived the behind-the-wheel road test requirement for novice drivers who had held a driving permit for a year (The State of Georgia Government, 2020). Through this wavier, almost 20,000 teenagers were granted full driving privileges last month (Taylor, 2020). While the decision was made to address the backlog of driving tests created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and also to practice social distancing (Taylor, 2020), many public health experts are now concerned that this decision will have catastrophic consequences on road safety.

scholarly journals Pendidikan Tinggi di Masa dan Pasca Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Franciscus Dwikotjo Sri Sumantyo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Human Life ◽  
World Health ◽  
Virus Diseases ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Beginning at the end of 2019 in various countries around the world and in Indonesia during the period of February 2020 has been shocked by a spectacular outbreak of a virus called Corona or Covid-19 (Corona Virus Diseases-19). This virus originally existed and developed in Wuhan China and its transmission spread very quickly throughout the world. So that the World Health Organization (WHO)(Jianxi Luo, 2020a), declared a world pandemic. Many victims fell and died, including in Indonesia and disrupt human life plus the unavailability of drugs or antidotes for this virus. All sectors in the world experience tremendous impact and ultimately jointly overcome in various ways so that transmission can be minimized, including in the field of education, especially higher education in Indonesia, many efforts have been made in the conditions and situations of teaching in the period and post-pandemic Covid-19. Government efforts in mobilizing and launching an independent campus and WFH-SFH (Nadiem Anwar Makarim, 2020a) are efforts to reduce and overcome Covid-19 servicing on campus and places of education whose potential is extraordinary, if contracting and other efforts undertaken to solve and explained in this study by each - higher education is an effort to minimize and reduce the impact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Keywords: Covid-19, pandemic, e-learning, independent campus, Study From Home (SFH)   Abstrak Berawal akhir tahun 2019 di berbagai negara di belahan dunia dan di Indonesia dari bulan Pebruari 2020 telah dikejutkan oleh wabah spektakuler yaitu virus yang bernama Corona atau Covid-19 (Corona Virus Diseases-19). Virus ini awalnya ada dan berkembang di Wuhan China dan penularannya sangat cepat menyebar ke seluruh dunia. Sehingga oleh World Health Organization (WHO) (Jianxi Luo, 2020a), menyatakan pandemi dunia. Korban banyak berjatuhan dan meninggal dunia termasuk di Indonesia dan mengganggu kehidupan manusia ditambah belum tersedianya obat atau penangkal virus ini. Semua sektor di dunia mengalami dampak yang luar biasa dan pada akhirnya bersama-sama mengatasi dengan berbagai cara agar penularannya bisa diminimalisir, termasuk dalam bidang pendidikan, khususnya pendidikan tinggi di Indonesia telah banyak dilakukan upaya dalam kondisi dan situasi pengajaran di masa dan pasca pandemi Covid-19. Upaya pemerintah dalam menggerakkan dan mencanangkan kampus merdeka dan WFH-SFH (Nadiem Anwar Makarim, 2020a) adalah upaya untuk mengurangi dan mengatasi penyebaran Covid-19 di dalam kampus dan tempat pendidikan yang potensinya sangat luar biasa jika tertular dan upaya-upaya lain yang dilakukan untuk penanggulangannya dan dijelaskan dalam studi ini oleh masing-masing pendidikan tinggi adalah upaya dalam meminimalisir dan mengurangi dampak yang terjadi akibat pandemi Covid-19 ini. Kata Kunci: Covid-19, pandemi, pembelajaran online, kampus merdeka, belajar dari rumah

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