Cybertarianism further exposed: Chile, Colombia, Mexico and the COVID-19 conjuncture

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
André Dorcé Ramos ◽  
Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed ◽  
Jorge Antonio Saavedra Utman ◽  
Toby Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Media Reform ◽  
Market Solutions

Chile, Colombia and Mexico have long been at the heart of neo-liberal experimentation and cybertarian fantasy. The former has denuded their ability to meet the needs of the citizenry in general, the latter to provide a democratic media. The contemporary pandemic has put these deregulated, privatized economies under particular strain – market solutions to social problems have proven dramatically, drastically, predictably inefficient. In the sphere of education, the isolation of school pupils and workers, mandated in the interest of public health, has driven a return to public broadcasting. Combined with mass public agitation and media-reform movements, that provides hope for a new landscape.

Financing the Future: The Lessons of Innovative Finance and the TIES That Bind

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Levenson Keohane
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Solar Electricity ◽  
Market Solutions ◽  
Globalized World

A globalized world means that the challenges we face are not confined to any one geography or sector; nor must be the solutions. Local carbon emissions produce global warming. Epidemics spread with rapid and cruel caprice. Conflict drives people over fences and oceans in search of sanctuary. Poverty exacerbates all of these problems, and investing in its alleviation is the paramount public good. Accordingly, innovative finance allows and encourages integrative, borderless thinking that makes critical linkages and investments across issues and regions: poverty and environmental degradation, public health and global warming, humanitarian disasters and long-term resilience, and community development that is both place- and people-centric. That is why, when it comes to finance, innovation is not so much about a new product or service as it is about creative application in different circumstances: an expert in securitization who translates future development aid pledges into vaccines today; an entrepreneur who turns a mobile phone into pay-as-you-go solar electricity; the conversion of pay-for-success contracts from bridges and roads to affordable housing, early childhood education, and maternal health. This adaptive approach—the ability to think beyond bounds, to overcome market failure in one context with market solutions from another—is a hallmark of innovative finance....

Societal Shutdown and Reopening and Reclosing in the U.S. as Expressed in Social Imagery Narratives

2021 ◽  
pp. 335-453
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Government Interventions ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
National Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Susceptible Populations ◽  
The U.S

In the COVID-19 pandemic era, political leaders have to navigate a difficult socio-political landscape balancing mass public health with socio-economic interests. They have to protect their susceptible populations and protect the social structures supporting their respective economies, healthcare systems, educational systems, international relationships, law and order, cultures and subcultures, national values, and others. A pandemic tends to disrupt systems and spark other social discontents among roiling publics. In May 2020, the U.S. started reopening from a mass lockdown involving a majority of its states, even as viral transmission rose. This work explores visual senses of societal shutdown, societal reopening, and societal (partial) reclosing in the U.S. in social imagery (all captured July 3, 2020, during the crisis) to better understand public responses to public health and other government interventions.

scholarly journals Alcohol consumption is a leading risk for morbidity and mortality; public health initiatives needed

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-296
Author(s):  
Ram Lakhan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Economic ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Child Neglect ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

I read the article authored by Dasgupta et al “Alcohol Consumption by workers in automobile repair shops of a slum of Kolkata: An assessment with AUDIT instrument” with great interest. This article was published in the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology in volume 3, issue 3, 2013. Alcoholism leads several health, economic and social problems in the lives of people who consume it. It also affects their families and community. Social issues such as violence, suicide, child neglect, work place absent, conflict in relationship, and divorce are some common outcomes of alcohol consumption.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v3i4.9520

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): Why is it so lethal?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-67
Author(s):  
Anika Tursa Promi ◽  
Sanzida Islam Bristi ◽  
Farhana Akhter ◽  
Rashed Noor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Antiviral Drugs ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Health Threat ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Public Health Threat

COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been the most dreadful mass public health threat for more than a year. An array of clinical trials with repurposed and repositioned drugs as well as with the candidate vaccines are being conducted with the aim of mitigation of COVID-19. While a few antiviral drugs and several candidate vaccines showed satisfactory results in the clinical trials, the side effects after vaccination and the evolution of new SARS-CoV-2 variants appear as a major challenge for the scientists. Present review focused on the possible reasons behind the lethality of SARS-CoV-2.

Media Reform Movements in Taiwan

2016 ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Hsin-Yi Sandy Tsai ◽  
Shih-Hung Lo
Keyword(s):  
Reform Movements ◽  
Media Reform
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