CLINTON OFFICIAL DEFENDS PLAN FOR VACCINES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-309
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Drug Company ◽  
Clinton Administration ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Congressional Hearing ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Government

Trying to allay concerns expressed by members of Congress and by drug company executives, a Clinton Administration official said today that the Government would not waste money or vaccine in a new program to inoculate millions of children from low-income families. Drug company executives and some lawmakers have criticized the Administration's plan, saying the Government was trying to buy far more vaccine than would be needed to immunize children eligible for the free shots under the program. ... Congress has set aside $460 million for the project this year. The Administration plans to store much of the vaccine at a Federal warehouse in Burlington, NJ. She said the Government would manage distribution of the vaccine under a contract with Federal Express of Memphis, TN. Dr. R. Gordon Douglas, Jr., president of the vaccine division of Merck & Company, said, "A federally operated megawarehouse for storage and shipping of up to 80 percent of this nation's pediatric vaccines is a public health crisis in the making." At a congressional hearing on May 18, Senator Dale Bumpers, Democrat of Arkansas, said he doubted that the warehouse would be ready to ship vaccines by Oct. 1, when the program is supposed to begin. "GSA's track record has been an unmitigated disaster as long as I can remember," the senator said, "I don't have very much confidence in GSA."

Bhutan: The Role of the Constitutional Monarch in a Public Health Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Sonam Tshering ◽  
Nima Dorji
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Drug Smuggling ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The People ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Government

This chapter reflects on Bhutan’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The people’s trust and confidence in the leadership of His Majesty the King, their government, strong Buddhist values to help each other, and the conscience of unity and solidarity proved their foremost strength in containing this pandemic as a nation. The king’s personal involvement helped guide, motivate, and encourage compliance with and support for the government’s response. However, Bhutan faced several challenges during the pandemic. Though most of the people are united, there are outliers who took advantage of the situation; there are reported cases of drug smuggling and one case of a person who escaped from quarantine. The government responded by increasing border patrols. In the long run, other solutions could be considered: installing a smart wall—using drones, sensors, and artificial intelligence patrols—would give Bhutan more control over its borders in the context of another epidemic while also enabling the government to better control smuggling.

“Flint Can’t Get in the Hearing”: The Language of Urban Pathology in Coverage of an American Public Health Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Clay Carey ◽  
Jim Lichtenwalter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Low Income ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This study examines the presence and influence of urban pathology language in coverage of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. The use of urban pathology language to describe low-income urban neighborhoods may lead news consumers to “understand those communities entirely in terms of their problems.” This study of coverage in The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal describes urban pathology frames that suggest a lack of agency among residents. The use of those frames, the study argues, may distract from broader questions of environmental justice.

News framing of avian flu: Media advocacy and response to a public health crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minhee Choi ◽  
Brooke Weberling McKeever
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Advocacy ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mobilizing Information

This study explores how South Korean newspapers reported the issue of AI (avian influenza) by employing framing, and the concepts of media advocacy and mobilizing information (MI). Results indicate that news stories were more likely to attribute blame to the government. Government, scientist/researcher, and farmer sources were most prevalent in news coverage. Mentions of tactical MI for the preventive actions increased. Overall, findings indicate the increased media advocacy efforts during repetitive outbreaks of AI.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Executive Responses on Democracy During the Coronavirus Crisis in Croatia, Slovenia and Austria

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Hrvoje Butković
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Appraisal Process ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The Government ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Second Wave

In Croatia, Slovenia and Austria, the coronavirus crisis raised pre-existing deficiencies in the democratic orders to the surface, i.e., issues in functioning according to democratic principles in the circumstances of a public health crisis. In Austria, the strained executive-legislative relations were already visible in April 2020, when the opposition parties refused to support the second wave of crisis legislation without the appraisal process that would justify its urgency. In Croatia and Slovenia, the governments decided not to declare a state of emergency, arguably in order to avoid cooperation with the opposition and other state institutions in drafting and passing crisis legislation. Finally, in Slovenia, the government used the crisis as a pretext to install its people into leading positions in several key state and public institutions. 

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF COVID -19 PANDEMIC ON THE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BANGLADESH: A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Md. Shahbub Alam ◽  
Md. Jafor Ali ◽  
Abul Bashar Bhuiyan ◽  
Mohammad Solaiman ◽  
Mohammad Abdur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Government Revenue ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Since the outburst of Covid-19 in China, the world economy is passing in a turmoil situation. Undeniably the economy of Bangladesh is also grappled by the severe public health crisis of the Covid-19. As the public health emergency is heavily interconnected with economic affairs, it has impacted each of the pillars of the economy of Bangladesh. The main purpose of this paper is to make evaluations of the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of Bangladesh.  This study is based on an empirical review of the recent study works, reports, working papers of home, and abroad regarding economic crisis. The review findings of the paper revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic have significant impacts on the different indicators of the economy of Bangladesh especially, Readymade Garments Sector, Foreign Remittance, Bank and Financial Institutions, Food and Agricultures, Local Trade, Foreign Trade (Export and Import), GDP (Gross Domestic Product), SDGs (Sustainable Development Goal), Government Revenue and Employment etc. This study suggested that as Covid-19 still surfacing all over the world so some steps should be ensured by the government agencies of Bangladesh to mitigate possible threats for the economy.

A Modern Public Health Crisis: A Physician Speaks about Healthcare in Post-Glasnost Russia

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEVE HEILIG
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Government ◽  
Means Of Production

I work at a large urban medical center. Our hospital has over 1,200 beds and was built in 1805 to take care of the poor. Our patients are still poor, but now so are the hospital and the doctors. Russian doctors are paid about one-third of what truck drivers are paid. The government historically allocates no more than 3% of the budget to medicine because this is not a means of production, like manufacturing.

scholarly journals COVID-19 in China: Responses, Challenges and Implications for the Health System

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Cunhai Xing ◽  
Ruilian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health System ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Response Chain ◽  
Governance Capacity ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The Government

A public health crisis is a “touchstone” for testing the ability and capacity of a national health system. In the current era, public health crises are presenting new systematic and cross-border characteristics and uncertainty. The essence of a system for public health crisis governance is the rules administering the stimulus–response chain. The health system generally emphasizes joint participation and communication between different subjects, which may lead to overlap and redundancy as well as a lack of auxiliary support for major public health crisis events. In the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, we track the responses, challenges, and implications of the temporary disruption of the health system and its response to this major public health crisis. We examine local governance capacity, performance in pandemic control, and the coordinated responses to COVID-19. Accordingly, we identify the challenges to the health system, including the imbalance in attention given to medical care versus health care, insufficient grassroots public health efforts and control capacity, and untimely information disclosure. It is strongly suggested that the government improve its cognitive ability and focus more attention on building and strengthening the emergency health system.

Eating NAFTA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyshia Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food System ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciated around the world than ever. What does it mean for their health and well-being when many Mexicans eat fewer tortillas and more instant noodles, while global elites demand tacos made with handmade corn tortillas? This book examines the transformation of the Mexican food system since NAFTA and how it has made it harder for people to eat as they once did. The book contextualizes NAFTA within Mexico’s approach to economic development since the Revolution, noticing the role envisioned for rural and low-income people in the path to modernization. Examination of anti-poverty and public health policies in Mexico reveal how it has become easier for people to consume processed foods and beverages, even when to do so can be harmful to health. The book critiques Mexico’s strategy for addressing the public health crisis generated by rising rates of chronic disease for blaming the dietary habits of those whose lives have been upended by the economic and political shifts of NAFTA.

Molecular characterization of SARS-CoV-2

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miribane Dërmaku-Sopjani ◽  
Mentor Sopjani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Drug Targets ◽  
Virus Genome ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Therapeutic Drugs ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
New Public ◽  
And Function

Abstract:: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a new public health crisis threatening the world. This pandemic disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus has been reported to be originated in bats and by yet unknown intermediary animals were transmitted to humans in China 2019. The SARSCoV- 2 spreads faster than its two ancestors the SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV) but has reduced fatality. At present, the SARS-CoV-2 has caused about a 1.16 million of deaths with more than 43.4 million confirmed cases worldwide, resulting in a serious threat to public health globally with yet uncertain impact. The disease is transmitted by inhalation or direct contact with an infected person. The incubation period ranges from 1 to 14 days. COVID-19 is accompanied by various symptoms, including cough, fatigue. In most people the disease is mild, but in some other people, such as in elderly and people with chronic diseases, it may progress from pneumonia to a multi-organ dysfunction. Many people are reported asymptomatic. The virus genome is sequenced, but new variants are reported. Numerous biochemical aspects of its structure and function are revealed. To date, no clinically approved vaccines and/or specific therapeutic drugs are available to prevent or treat the COVID-19. However, there are reported intensive researches on the SARSCoV- 2 to potentially identify vaccines and/or drug targets, which may help to overcome the disease. In this review, we discuss recent advances in understanding the molecular structure of SARS-CoV-2 and its biochemical characteristics.

Anticipating on a post covid-19 world and the pivotal role of science and technology

Coronaviruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeed Khan ◽  
Tusha Sharma ◽  
Basu Dev Banerjee ◽  
Scotty Branch ◽  
Shea Harrelson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Outbreak Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Future Outbreak

: Currently, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has transformed into a severe public health crisis and wreaking havoc worldwide. The ongoing pandemic has exposed the public healthcare system's weaknesses and highlighted the urgent need for investments in scientific programs and policies. A comprehensive program utilizing the science and technologydriven strategies combined with well-resourced healthcare organizations appears to be essential for current and future outbreak management.

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