scholarly journals Pseudomonas Infection of the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Health and Public Health Issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Malachovsky ◽  
M. Janickova ◽  
J. Stasko ◽  
M. Kasaj ◽  
V. Sadlonova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Temporomandibular Joint ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Malignant External Otitis ◽  
Pseudomonas Infection ◽  
Microbial Agent

Abstract The authors describe a case of a rare infectious disease of intra-articular tissues of the temporomandibular joint caused mainly by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In scientific literature, under the heading invasive (malignant) external otitis, we can find cases of an infectious disease of the external acoustic meatus caused by a microbial agent of Pseudomonas aeruginosa which can subsequently penetrate into structures. However, a primary affliction of the abovementioned structures has not been described. Localisation and severity of the infection requires long-term and massive treatment with antibiotics.

Pharmacoepidemiology of psychotropic drugs: examples of current research challenges on major public health issues

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Verdoux ◽  
Marie Tournier ◽  
Bernard Bégaud
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Prenatal Exposure ◽  
Psychotropic Drugs ◽  
Antipsychotic Drugs ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
The Impact

SummaryBackground– As a large number of persons are exposed to prescribed psychotropic drugs, their utilisation and impact should be further explored at the population level.Aims– To illustrate the interest of pharmacoepidemiological studies of psychotropic drugs by selected examples of major public health issues.Method– Selective review of the literature. Results – Many questions remain unsolved regarding the behavioural teratogenicity of prenatal exposure to psychotropic drugs, the impact of their increasing use in children, the long-term cognitive consequences of exposure to benzodiazepines, and the risks associated with extension of indications of antipsychotic drugs.Conclusion– Pharmacoepidemiological studies need to be further developed owing to the large number of public health questions raised by the extensive and expanding use of psychotropic drugs.

scholarly journals Conducting Infectious and Communicable Disease Education in Hospitality Organizations Viewpoint

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67
Author(s):  
Brandon Howell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Bloodborne Pathogens ◽  
Hospitality Organizations ◽  
Management Techniques

Every day, employees in the lodging and hospitality industry are potentially exposed to bloodborne pathogens and other infectious diseases. Federally sponsored biosafety and infectious disease training sessions were conducted at two lodging sites in an effort to promote infectious disease primary prevention, as well as mitigation and management techniques in the hospitality industry in an effort to develop interdisciplinary connections between public health and hospitality. The trainings were positively received, but as this viewpoint reveals, further research, partnerships, and curriculum development is needed in this area in order for it to have long-term and impactful effects.

scholarly journals If long-term suppression is not possible, how do we minimize mortality for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Handel ◽  
Joel C. Miller ◽  
Yang Ge ◽  
Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Infectious Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Long Time

As COVID-19 continues to spread, public health interventions are crucial to minimize its impact. The most desirable goal is to drive the pathogen quickly to extinction. This generally involves applying interventions as strongly as possible, which worked for SARS, but so far has failed for COVID-19. If fast eradication is not achievable, the next best goal is to delay the spread and minimize cases and burden on the health care system until suitable drugs or vaccines are available. This suppression approach also calls for strong interventions, potentially applied for a long time.

scholarly journals Pandemic of Paradoxes: The Indirect Global Health Impacts of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
M.R. Leipnik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Automobile Accidents ◽  
Beer Consumption ◽  
Initial Reduction ◽  
Seasonal Flu ◽  
Paradoxical Consequence ◽  
Health Experts

The indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on several public health issues will be examined in the context of its impacts on multiple nations around the world. Not all possible health aspects of COVID-19 that are indirectly related to the disease will be examined. The ones chosen are: I. influenza, II. suicide, III. alcohol consumption, IV. fatal automobile accidents and V. birth rates. In each of these cases COVID-19 has had a paradoxical impact. Although COVID-19 is a dangerous respiratory virus, there has not been a synergism with the influenza virus as initially feared by some public health experts. In fact, there has been a global nonappearance of seasonal flu; a good, though indirect, paradoxical consequence of COVID-19. But most other paradoxical health consequences of COVID-19 have been largely negative, these include an increase in suicide but unexpectedly an initial reduction and changes in suicide patterns in many countries, an increase in alcohol consumption but paradoxically a reduction in beer consumption, some evidence of an increase in fatal automobile accidents (at least on a per mile driven basis) and of monumental long term global consequence, a significant decline in births in many major nations.

scholarly journals Public Health in Russian Medias Edit Programs: Results of an Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-718
Author(s):  
Varvara Kazhberova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pilot Testing ◽  
Present Context ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Impact

The article is a part of a work series dealing with media studies of formation of the institute of public health. The concept of the institute includes public efforts intended to support and provide for the health of the population, which is impossible without the Media’s participation. However, due to various reasons, the Mass Media can’t currently be active participants in the field of public health. One of these reasons is that many media-agents don’t realize their opportunities, goals and objectives, which results in a lack of practical methods and algorithms of work. The purpose of the article is to report the pilot test of a specially designed theoretical model of the media’s operation as stakeholder of the institute of public health. This model in the present context is understood as a particular form of scholarly knowledge consisting of a number of constructs that meet the objectives of the study. With the opportunities of journalism in terms of systemic reporting public health issues previously studied by the author, the theoretical model is aimed at long-term EDIT programs that take into account the impact of the competitive environment. It also adds to the Media’s approaches to coverage of public health issues, and helps to find ways of solving strategic and tactic tasks related to covering the future information agenda. The method of pilot-testing chosen to check the efficiency of the model is one of the most complicated methods of empirical research. The pilot test itself was all-Russian contest of EDIT programs of the mass media and blog-sphere "Public health: its purpose, themes, and genres". The process and analyzed results of the pilot-testing prove the efficiency of the theoretical model, as well as provide practical propositions and demonstrate more opportunities for the mass media to cover the theme of public health.

Suicide, Violence, and Other Forms of Injury

2019 ◽  
pp. 449-466
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Logan ◽  
James A. Mercy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Unintentional Injuries ◽  
Drug Overdoses ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Nonfatal Injuries

Fatal and nonfatal self-directed and interpersonal violence and unintentional injuries can spread throughout a community just like infectious diseases. What drives people to attempt suicide, harm others, or place themselves in unsafe situations most often results from complex dynamics between themselves and their social environments. Nevertheless, outbreaks of fatal and nonfatal injuries do occur. Similar to how an infectious disease manifests and spreads, outbreaks of self-inflicted, violent injuries, and even unintentional injuries, such as drug overdoses, also can be precipitated by immediate exposures that public health prevention strategies can best address. At some point, a field epidemiologist will face the challenges and the nuances of these epidemics. This chapter provides case stories of injury-related epidemics and the exposures and circumstances that propagated them. It also reviews the types of investigations conducted to address these epidemics, common challenges, and the short- and long-term strategies used to control such dangerous and deadly outbreaks.

Applying Knowledge Management in Public Health Intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Iffat Tasnim Haque ◽  
Youji Kohda
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
School Students ◽  
Community People ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Street food safety (SFS) has become an emerging public health concern in most developing countries like Bangladesh. Interventions are trying to improve the sector; however, a lack of coordination and value co-creation between macro and micro-level stakeholders strongly impedes the achievement of long-term benefits. Therefore, community participation is needed to achieve a multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) and community-based knowledge management (KM) for a successful intervention. The purpose of this study is to identify secondary school students as KM tools to facilitate knowledge management activities. The action research was conducted using community people in two major cities in Bangladesh. Based on the findings, students can act as KM tools who can facilitate coordination and value co-creation process. A conceptual framework has been proposed to understand the MSP and KM concepts where the integrated strategy of those two concepts not only develops a sustainable solution for the SFS system but also can be applied to many other public health issues in developing countries.

scholarly journals On monitoring of population mortality related to the use of psychoactive substances

Public Health ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
E. A. Brun ◽  
L. I. Letnikova ◽  
A. Yu. Evdokimov ◽  
Yu. B. Shevtsova ◽  
V. Yu. Scriabin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Alcohol And Drugs ◽  
Population Mortality ◽  
Related Mortality

Aim. The work aims to analyze the use of mortality rates in long-term projects and programs, in particular in the field of public health and prevention of socio-demographic problems associated with the use of psychoactive substances (tobacco, nicotine-containing products, alcohol, and drugs).Methods. The analysis of regulations, statistical documents, and scientific literature.Results. The use of mortality rates in long-term projects and programs, in particular in the field of public health and prevention of socio-demographic problems associated with the use of psychoactive substances was analyzed.Conclusion. Some indicators reflecting substance use-related mortality are legitimately used as targets and estimates for long-term public health and prevention. It allows assessing the effectiveness of the adopted comprehensive measures and serves as vector «markers» of global demographics.

scholarly journals Why the Patient-Made Term 'Long Covid' is needed

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Perego ◽  
Felicity Callard ◽  
Laurie Stras ◽  
Barbara Melville-Jóhannesson ◽  
Rachel Pope ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Symptom Onset ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Persistent Symptoms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Provision Of Care

The patient-made term ‘Long Covid’ is, we argue, a helpful and capacious term that is needed to address key medical, epidemiological and socio-political challenges posed by diverse symptoms persisting beyond four weeks after symptom onset suggestive of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). An international movement of patients (which includes all six authors) brought the persistence and heterogeneity of long-term symptoms to widespread visibility. The same grassroots movement introduced the term ‘Long Covid’ (and the cognate term ‘long-haulers’) to intervene in relation to widespread assumptions about disease severity and duration. Persistent symptoms following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection are now one of the most pressing clinical and public health phenomena to address: their cause(s) is/are unknown, their effects can be debilitating, and the percentage of patients affected is unclear, though likely significant. The term ‘Long Covid’ is now used in scientific literature, the media, and in interactions with the WHO. Uncertainty regarding its value and meaning, however, remains. In this Open Letter, we explain the advantages of the term ‘Long Covid’ and bring clarity to some pressing issues of use and definition. We also point to the importance of centring patient experience and expertise in relation to ‘Long Covid’ research, as well as the provision of care and rehabilitation.

Applying Knowledge Management in Public Health Intervention

2021 ◽  
pp. 695-713
Author(s):  
Iffat Tasnim Haque ◽  
Youji Kohda
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
School Students ◽  
Community People ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

Street food safety (SFS) has become an emerging public health concern in most developing countries like Bangladesh. Interventions are trying to improve the sector; however, a lack of coordination and value co-creation between macro and micro-level stakeholders strongly impedes the achievement of long-term benefits. Therefore, community participation is needed to achieve a multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) and community-based knowledge management (KM) for a successful intervention. The purpose of this study is to identify secondary school students as KM tools to facilitate knowledge management activities. The action research was conducted using community people in two major cities in Bangladesh. Based on the findings, students can act as KM tools who can facilitate coordination and value co-creation process. A conceptual framework has been proposed to understand the MSP and KM concepts where the integrated strategy of those two concepts not only develops a sustainable solution for the SFS system but also can be applied to many other public health issues in developing countries.

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