scholarly journals Global health and global bioethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Henk Ten Have
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Preventive Interventions ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Global Bioethics ◽  
Coordinated Action ◽  
Moral Failure

Covid-19 is not merely a national or regional threat but a global one. It requires coordinated action of the global community. Such action, as argued in this paper, should primarily focus on the question how to prevent the next pandemic. Humankind has been warned multiple time for emerging diseases and the risks of pandemics, although no preparatory responses have been undertaken. Preventive interventions are possible since it is known how and where infectious diseases emerge. Such interventions proceed on the basis of shared vulnerability and responsibility for global health. The fact that they have been inadequate thus far, can be considered as a serious moral failure.

Nutritional Recommendation for COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 753-757
Author(s):  
Anagha Gulhane ◽  
Shamli Hiware
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Immune Function ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Nutritional Recommendation

It is the most unreliable truth that anybody can get infected by the COVID-19, and nobody can escape from the danger of getting tainted by the virus. Yet, the line of hope is that anyone and everyone can boost their resistance, thus avoid the risk of getting affected by the illness. The immunity of humans pulls down as they grow older. If their immune system is robust, them falling sick is feeble. If their resistance is weak, them getting ill is sound. Several factors affect the immune system and its ability, including its nourishment. A two-way connection between nutrition, infection and immunity presents. Changes in one part will affect the others part in our body that's the nature's rule. Well defined immune system quality which is present between each life phase may influence the type, generality and the degree of infections. At the same time, low nutrition to the body will decrease the immune function and expose the body to the danger of getting infected by infectious diseases. Different quantity of micronutrients is required for increasing the immunity power of our body. Generally the vitamins A,C,D,E,B2,B6,B12, iron, zinc and selenium.The deficiencies of micronutrients are acknowledged as a global health issue, and also low nutrition makes it prone to establishes the infections in the body.

scholarly journals Global Health and the Infectious Diseases Physician-Scientist Workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 219 (6) ◽  
pp. 1007-1008
Author(s):  
Russell R Kempker ◽  
Henry M Blumberg
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Physician Scientist

scholarly journals Recent Developments towards Portable Point-of-Care Diagnostic Devices for Pathogen Detection

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharmili Roy ◽  
FAREEHA ARSHAD ◽  
Shimaa Eissa ◽  
Mohammadali Safavieh ◽  
Sanaa G. Alattas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Pathogen Detection ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Recent Developments

The rapid development of accurate and quick diagnostic tools for infectious diseases has made a massive impact in global health. POC devices for pathogen detection have primarily contributed to clinical...

scholarly journals Measuring Success in Global Health Training: Data From 14 Years of a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 1768-1772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Tucker ◽  
Molly A. Hughes ◽  
Ravi V. Durvasula ◽  
Joseph M. Vinetz ◽  
Victoria P. McGovern ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellowship

scholarly journals Emerging diseases in Chiroptera: why bats?

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudrun Wibbelt ◽  
Marianne S. Moore ◽  
Tony Schountz ◽  
Christian C. Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Health ◽  
North American ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Viral Diseases ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Associated Diseases ◽  
White Nose Syndrome ◽  
First Time

A conference entitled ‘2nd International Berlin Bat Meeting: Bat Biology and Infectious Diseases’ was held between the 19 and 21 of February 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Researchers from two major disciplines, bat biologists and disease specialists, met for the first time in an interdisciplinary event to share their knowledge about bat-associated diseases. The focus of the meeting was to understand why in particular bats are the hosts of so many of the most virulent diseases globally. During several sessions, key note speakers and participants discussed infectious diseases associated with bats, including viral diseases caused by Henipa-, Filo-, Corona- and Lyssaviruses, the spread of white-nose syndrome in North American bats, bat immunology/immunogenetics, bat parasites, and finally, conservation and human health issues.

scholarly journals Catching the flu: Syndromic surveillance, algorithmic governmentality and global health security

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L Roberts ◽  
Stefan Elbe
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Syndromic Surveillance ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Outbreak Detection ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Global Health Security ◽  
Health Security

How do algorithms shape the imaginary and practice of security? Does their proliferation point to a shift in the political rationality of security? If so, what is the nature and extent of that shift? This article argues that efforts to strengthen global health security are major drivers in the development and proliferation of new algorithmic security technologies. In response to a seeming epidemic of potentially lethal infectious disease outbreaks – including HIV/AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), pandemic flu, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Ebola and Zika – governments and international organizations are now using several next-generation syndromic surveillance systems to rapidly detect new outbreaks globally. This article analyses the origins, design and function of three such internet-based surveillance systems: (1) the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, (2) the Global Public Health Intelligence Network and (3) HealthMap. The article shows how each newly introduced system became progressively more reliant upon algorithms to mine an ever-growing volume of indirect data sources for the earliest signs of a possible new outbreak – gradually propelling algorithms into the heart of global outbreak detection. That turn to the algorithm marks a significant shift in the underlying problem, nature and role of knowledge in contemporary security policy.

Superbugs in the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Angus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Care System

The promise of a world without disease has been replaced by warnings of evermore virulent pathogens, created by the very drugs that were supposed to save us. Scarcely a day passes without more news of people contracting infections or infectious diseases that cannot be cured by the strongest medicines available. Antimicrobial Resistance is a global health crisis driven by two major factors: the spectacular ability of bacteria to adapt to threats, and a pharmaceutical industry and health care system that puts profit before people. In addition to devastating climate change, the Anthropocene may be defined by epidemics that medicine cannot cure.

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