scholarly journals Retail Signage During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Joanne E. McNeish
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Emotional Security ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Public Health Departments ◽  
Canadian City ◽  
Retail Signage ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Business As Usual

Early in 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact countries across the world. Within weeks, people’s normal social behavior had to be changed in order to stop the spread of the disease. In Canada, where this study takes place, governments and public health departments were the primary and trusted information sources. Photographs of retail signs were taken by the author in one neighborhood in a major Canadian city in March and April. Along with descriptive information, the author speculates on the meaning conveyed by the printer-paper signs, beyond their traditional role of supporting wayfinding. Paper’s relative fragility may have simultaneously reflected the uncertainty that people felt in the early days of the pandemic, while its familiar and timeless presence may have provided a sense of emotional security and direction. Marking a return to “business as usual”, stores replaced many, but not all of the informal signs with professionally produced and branded signs suggesting that the early “blind panic” had been replaced by a form of “steady state”. One could say that retailers demonstrated corporate social responsibility through their efforts in creating and posting the signs to create awareness of, educate, and reinforce the new and changing social distancing behaviors.

scholarly journals VOADS AND OLDER ADULTS IN DISASTERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S391-S391
Author(s):  
Mary H mcsweeney-feld
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Public Health Departments ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Services And Supports

Abstract Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOADs) are a key mechanism for sharing knowledge and resources throughout a disaster cycle. VOADs work as a coalition of not-for-profit organizations that can respond to disasters on a local level in a coordinated response. Given the changes in FEMA’s Strategic Plan for 2018-2022, the role of VOADs will become more important over time. It is unclear whether the needs of older adults in disasters will be addressed by VOAD coalitions. Organizations such as public health departments and emergency management services are typically involved in the activities of VOAD organizations, but it is unclear whether organizations serving older adults know about VOAD coalitions or have considered becoming members of these organizations. A case study of the state of Maryland’s VOAD coalition will be used as an example of how one state VOAD is able to provide services and supports for older adults in disasters.

scholarly journals Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in Chicago, 2008-2011: The Role of Public Health Departments

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. e0164162
Author(s):  
Reid Fletcher ◽  
Joshua D. Jones ◽  
Neha S. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Active Tuberculosis ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Public Health Departments

Health Conditions and Risk Factors of Sheltered Persons Displaced by Hurricane Katrina

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Vest ◽  
Adolfo M. Valadez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Public Health Departments ◽  
Displaced Populations

AbstractIntroduction:During disasters, public health departments assume the role of maintaining the health of displaced persons. Displaced persons arrive with acute and chronic conditions as well as other risk factors. Descriptions of these conditions may aid future shelter planning efforts.Methods:Approximately 4,000 individuals from New Orleans, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, were sheltered in Austin, Texas. A stratified random sample of the population was selected using individual beds as the primary sampling unit. Adults were interviewed about their acute symptoms, chronic diseases, and other risk factors.Results:The results indicate a substantial proportion of adults arrived with some symptoms of acute illness (49.8%). A majority of the adults reported living with a chronic condition (59.0%), and the prevalence of some chronic conditions was higher than that of the general population. Also, several factors that could complicate service delivery were prevalent.Discussion:Acute illnesses present transmission risks within the shelter. Furthermore, chronic diseases must be managed and may complicate care of acute illnesses. Risks like activity limitation or substance abuse may complicate shelter operations. Defining the potential scope of the illness burden may be used to help public health departments better plan the services they must deliver to displaced populations.

FAITH–BASED COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS IN DULLSTROOM-EMNOTWENI: LOCAL STORIES OF IDENTITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Local Municipality ◽  
The Face

A majority of the black community of Dullstroom-Emnotweni in the Mpumalanga highveld in the east of South Africa trace their descent back to the southern Ndebele of the so-called ‘Mapoch Gronden’, who lost their land in the 1880s to become farm workers on their own land. A hundred years later, in 1980, descendants of the ‘Mapoggers’ settled in the newly built ‘township’ of Dullstroom, called Sakhelwe, finding jobs on the railways or as domestic workers. Oral interviews with the inhabitants of Sakhelwe – a name eventually abandoned in favour of Dullstroom- Emnotweni – testify to histories of transition from landowner to farmworker to unskilled labourer. The stories also highlight cultural conflicts between people of Ndebele, Pedi and Swazi descent and the influence of decades of subordination on local identities. Research projects conducted in this and the wider area of the eMakhazeni Local Municipality reveal the struggle to maintain religious, gender and youth identities in the face of competing political interests. Service delivery, higher education, space for women and the role of faith-based organisations in particular seem to be sites of contestation. Churches and their role in development and transformation, where they compete with political parties and state institutions, are the special focus of this study. They attempt to remain free from party politics, but are nevertheless co-opted into contra-culturing the lack of service delivery, poor standards of higher education and inadequate space for women, which are outside their traditional role of sustaining an oppressed community.

Statistical Data as a Source of Information on the Great Patriotic War

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
T. G. Nekhaeva
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Great Victory

The article examines publication of statistical data commemorating the anniversaries of the USSR Victory in the Great Patriotic War as the most important information sources for an objective analysis of historical events. The reason for writing this article was the release of the statistical handbook of Rosstat, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. In the introduction, the author argues the current urgency of issues addressed in the article caused by information warfare aimed at distorting the historical truth about the role of our country in the anti-Hitler coalition and the defeat of fascism in the World War II. The body of the article describes the concept and content of the anniversary edition. An important point of the article is the analysis of data sources used in the preparation of the handbook. The author reviews the anniversary handbook structure that includes a preface and the following sections: Population, Economic, Living conditions, Mobilization of population, Partisan movement, Evacuation during the war, Casualties and losses during the war, Military memorials and cemeteries, State awards, References. It is noted that the handbook maintains the tradition of previous statistical publications dedicated to the anniversaries of the Great Victory. Lastly, the author substantiates the novelty of data presented in the anniversary handbook and the logical structure of statistical materials in it. The author draws conclusions about the paramount importance of, and need to continue popularization of data on the great exploits of the Soviet people during the war and to introduce new statistical information into scientific circulation, which is causing further comprehension of primary information sources about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

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