scholarly journals Adapting to a new normal: Antiracism as a core public health principle

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. e0000037
Author(s):  
Utibe R. Essien ◽  
Eloho O. Ufomata
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Adeela Arshad-Ayaz ◽  
M. Ayaz Naseem

AbstractAs a once in a 100 years emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in repercussions for the economy, the polity, and the social. Also, the ongoing pandemic is as much a teaching moment as it to reflect on the lack of critical citizenship education. The fault lines of the health system have become visible in terms of infection and death rates; the fault lines of the educational system are now apparent in the behavior of the citizens who are flouting the public health guidelines and, in certain cases, actively opposing these guidelines. The main objective of this commentary is to initiate a dialogue on the social contract between the state and the subjects and to see how education and educators can respond to the challenge of the new normal. It is contended that education under the new normal cannot afford to keep educating for unbridled productivity education under the new normal. It must have welfare, human connections, ethical relationships, environmental stewardship, and social justice front and center.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54
Author(s):  
Sean Cubitt

Abstract COVID-19 is now part of the resources out of which any future must be made. The temptation is to curl back into private misery and fatalism. The opportunity is to further the design of neonationalist, neoliberal returns to pre-1917 norms of extreme wealth, extreme poverty, and unmitigated exploitation of technical and ecological resources. The challenge is to build a future of public health, wealth, education, and environmental justice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Inayanti Fatwa ◽  
Hariani Harjuna ◽  
Rezeki Amaliah

Coronavirus adalah keluarga besar virus yang menyebabkan penyakit mulai dari gejala ringan sampai berat. Pada tanggal 30 Januari 2020 WHO telah menetapkan sebagai Kedaruratan Kesehatan Masyarakat Yang Meresahkan Dunia/ Public Health Emergency of International Concern (KKMMD/PHEIC). Penambahan jumlah kasus COVID-19 berlangsung cukup cepat dan sudah terjadi penyebaran antar Negara. Sosialisasi dan edukasi new normal life merupakan cara mempersiapkan warga agar lebih waspada dan memperhatikan kesehatan diri sendiri selama beraktivitas di luar rumah. Hal ini sebagai bagian penting dalam rangka pemerataan informasi serta mengurangi angka penderita Covid-19. Pendekatan yang dipakai untuk mencapai tujuan pengabdian meliputi beberapa jenis kegiatan yaitu presentasi dan demonstrasi tentang virus corona dan new normal  dihadapan warga RT 002 RW 005 desa Sunggumanai Kab. Gowa. Respon peserta saat pelaksanaan pelatihan sangat baik. Seluruh peserta begitu antusias memperhatikan setiap penjelasan. Dari 11 peserta, ada 2 orang yang mengajukan pertanyaan.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 083-088
Author(s):  
Umema Ahmed ◽  
S.S. Daga ◽  
R.K. Kumawat

In December, 2019, novel corona virus 2019-nCoV or SARS- CoV-2 or COVID 19 was reported in Wuhan city of China. Expeditious transmissibility, extremely virulent nature and acute pathogenicity, World Health Organization declared as a public health emergency of international concern on 30th January 2020. During the pandemic era crime and illicit economies such as organized criminal activities, domestic violence, terrorism, street crime, online crime, illegal markets and smuggling, human and wildlife trafficking, slavery, robberies and burglaries increased in the exponential manner. It was established that the viral particles remain on various surfaces 3 to 5 days, this long lasting persistence of viral particles are serious concern to public health. Since, forensic investigators as well as police personnel directly deal with the crime exhibits, which impose serious concern to their lives.In this report, we explore the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on forensic and new normal practice.


2021 ◽  
pp. 000332862110610
Author(s):  
James F. Turrell

As churches navigate the “new normal” of hybrid/online worship and public health measures, history offers some resources that can help guide our thinking. Anglicanism has, from its birth in the sixteenth century, adapted to such epidemic challenges as sweating sickness, plague, smallpox, cholera, and influenza. Anglican theology favors corporate prayer (including dispersed, synchronous prayer) and encourages the idea of the sacramentality of the word. At the same time, it resists the idea of virtual sacraments apart from a physical gathering and rejects a eucharist at which only the celebrant receives the consecrated bread and wine. History rarely offers straightforward lessons, but it suggests that Anglicanism has sufficient resources within itself to sustain itself through even a prolonged pandemic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 150-150
Author(s):  
Lisa Forbes

In this time of focus on public health, what role will community based workers play? How will we carry on our professional duties in a time of social distancing?


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (S1) ◽  
pp. S1-S3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Frieden

An important role of public health agencies is to define the unacceptable. This concept has particular relevance for healthcare-associated infections. Evidence indicates that, with focused efforts, these once-formidable infections can be greatly reduced in number, leading to a new normal for healthcare-associated infections as rare, unacceptable events.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obiamaka Adaeze Nwobu

It has never been more urgent for corporate entities to ensure that they are accountable for public health issues arising from their business operations. Corporate social responsibility is constantly being redefined from what it used to be in terms of corporate responsibility to people and the planet. This redefinition is mainly due to issues affecting public health. Hence, it is important for corporate entities to account for how their business operations affect public health. It is also important for corporate entities to account for how public health issues affect their business operations. The nexus between corporate social responsibility and public health could also create a ‘new normal’ by accounting and corporate reporting on public health.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asti Harkeni ◽  
Novia Susianti

Since the issuance of Presidential Decree (Keppres) No. 11 of 2020 concerning the Establishment of Public Health Emergency COVID-19 and Circular Letter of the National Personnel Agency (BKN) Number 11/SE/IV/2020 concerning the Guidelines for Disciplinary Punishment for State Civil Apparatus (ASN) Conducting Travel Activities Outside the Region and/or Going Home during the Emergency Public Health Period, Jambi Provincial Government implements an online attendance policy through the SiAbOn application installed on a smartphone. The goal is to monitor the location of the presence of the ASN during the Eid al-Fitr holidays from 23 to 25 May 2020, as well as concrete efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19. The research problem formulation is to see how the effectiveness and efficiency as well as the impact of the SiAbOn application on the implementation of ASN management in the new normal era. Data sources were obtained from ASN, Department of Communication and Information (Dinas Kominfo), and Jambi Province Regional Personnel Agency (BKD Prov. Jambi). The sample location is Jambi Province. The research method used was quantitative. The results showed that out of 11,214 ASNs, 92.37% (10,351 ASNs) used SiAbOn, while 7.70% (863 ASNs) did not. These results are very satisfying considering the preparation time until the implementation was very short, only 14 days with an ASN area of more than 600 km2, geographical challenges, and limited internet infrastructure. The SiAbOn implementation policy during the Eid holiday then was adopted as a permanent policy in the new normal era replacing the obligation to record attendance using a hand-key machine which could be the source of COVID-19 spread.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (S1) ◽  
pp. S1-S3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Frieden

An important role of public health agencies is to define the unacceptable. This concept has particular relevance for healthcare-associated infections. Evidence indicates that, with focused efforts, these once-formidable infections can be greatly reduced in number, leading to a new normal for healthcare-associated infections as rare, unacceptable events.


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