Progress Tracking of Health-Related SDGs: Challenges and Opportunities for India

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini Rudra ◽  
◽  
Oommen C. Kurian ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals Epilepsy Benchmarks Area IV: Limit or Prevent Adverse Consequence of Seizures and Their Treatment Across the Life Span

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 31S-39S ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana E. Jones ◽  
Miya R. Asato ◽  
Mesha-Gay Brown ◽  
Julia L. Doss ◽  
Elizabeth A. Felton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Spectrum ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
Unexpected Death ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Causes Of Mortality ◽  
Nonepileptic Seizures ◽  
The Impact

Epilepsy represents a complex spectrum disorder, with patients sharing seizures as a common symptom and manifesting a broad array of additional clinical phenotypes. To understand this disorder and treat individuals who live with epilepsy, it is important not only to identify pathogenic mechanisms underlying epilepsy but also to understand their relationships with other health-related factors. Benchmarks Area IV focuses on the impact of seizures and their treatment on quality of life, development, cognitive function, and other aspects and comorbidities that often affect individuals with epilepsy. Included in this review is a discussion on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and other causes of mortality, a major area of research focus with still many unanswered questions. We also draw attention to special populations, such as individuals with nonepileptic seizures and pregnant women and their offspring. In this study, we review the progress made in these areas since the 2016 review of the Benchmarks Area IV and discuss challenges and opportunities for future study.

Applying Social Marketing to Healthcare

2014 ◽  
pp. 78-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Cabrita ◽  
Miriam Cabrita
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Care Consumer ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Marketing Approach

There is now an emerging view of health care as a sector of the economy. The subject is increasingly gaining the interest of policy makers and health care industry researchers as a way of modifying the incidence and impact of unhealthy behavior and disease. Health-related social marketing is the systematic application of commercial marketing principles to achieve behavioral goals relevant to improving health and reducing health inequalities. Whilst commercial marketing seeks to influence behavior for profit, social marketing encourages behaviors that provide well being for individuals or for society as a whole. Several studies set out the importance of using a social marketing approach to encourage positive health behavior. There are therefore a number of challenges and opportunities for social marketing to be used to change health care consumer behavior. Social marketing has been used to persuade a specific audience, mainly through mass media, to adopt an idea, a practice, a product, or all three. To develop social marketing programs, marketers must know about the problem to be addressed, understand the audience to be targeted, and interpret the environment in which the program will be applied. The premise is that all program planning decisions must emanate from a consideration of the consumers’ wants, demands, and needs. The aim of this chapter is to examine ways in which social marketing can help to promote health care attitudes. Exploring key concepts, the study focuses on the application of social marketing theory and principles to healthcare. Using a social marketing approach, it was examines the program UpForIt, which aims to influence students aged 16-24 years old to increase their levels of physical activity and adopt healthy eating behaviors. By examining strategies implemented, it identifies that young adults are willing to voluntarily change their lifestyle behaviors, given the appropriate target audience.

scholarly journals When technology precedes regulation: the challenges and opportunities of e-pharmacy in low-income and middle-income countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. e005405
Author(s):  
Rosalind Miller ◽  
Francis Wafula ◽  
Chima A Onoka ◽  
Prasanna Saligram ◽  
Anita Musiega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Access To Medicines ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Medicine Regulation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Falsified Medicines ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Dynamic Landscape

The recent growth of medicine sales online represents a major disruption to pharmacy markets, with COVID-19 encouraging this trend further. While e-pharmacy businesses were initially the preserve of high-income countries, in the past decade they have been growing rapidly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Public health concerns associated with e-pharmacy include the sale of prescription-only medicines without a prescription and the sale of substandard and falsified medicines. There are also non-health-related risks such as consumer fraud and lack of data privacy. However, e-pharmacy may also have the potential to improve access to medicines. Drawing on existing literature and a set of key informant interviews in Kenya, Nigeria and India, we examine the e-pharmacy regulatory systems in LMICs. None of the study countries had yet enacted a regulatory framework specific to e-pharmacy. Key regulatory challenges included the lack of consensus on regulatory models, lack of regulatory capacity, regulating sales across borders and risks of over-regulation. However, e-pharmacy also presents opportunities to enhance medicine regulation—through consolidation in the sector, and the traceability and transparency that online records offer. The regulatory process needs to be adapted to keep pace with this dynamic landscape and exploit these possibilities. This will require exploration of a range of innovative regulatory options, collaboration with larger, more compliant businesses, and engagement with global regulatory bodies. A key first step must be ensuring that national regulators are equipped with the necessary awareness and technical expertise to actively oversee this e-pharmacy activity.

scholarly journals Applications of Nanomaterials in Agrifood and Pharmaceutical Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hiwa M. Ahmed ◽  
Arpita Roy ◽  
Muhammad Wahab ◽  
Mohammed Ahmed ◽  
Gashaw Othman-Qadir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lung Damage ◽  
Yield Reduction ◽  
Skin Damage ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Nanoscale Level

Nanotechnology recently emerged among the most exciting science-related innovations. Nanotechnology-produced metal nanoparticles got a lot of attention. This is emerging as a rapidly developing field due to its effective applications that targeted the manufacturing of new materials at the nanoscale level. There is considerable interest in the application of nanomaterials in many areas of industry including agrifood and biomedical products. In the agrifood area, nanomaterials have benefits in diverse areas which include fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, sensors, and quality stimulants, among other food processing, food packaging, and nutraceuticals to improve nutritional value. These applications in agriculture result in enhanced quality and crop yield, reduction in pollution caused by various chemicals, etc. In the pharmaceutical area, nanomaterials are claimed to ameliorate drug safety and efficacy, as well as bioavailability. They are utilized for targeting various drugs to a specific location in the body. However, there are also concerns that some nanoparticles may have adverse effects on human health. These include titanium dioxide, copper oxides, and other nanomaterials which lead to liver damage, skin damage, lung damage, and various other human health-related problems. This review is aimed at presenting a briefing on the state of the art in the application of nanotechnology in food and human nutrition and drug administration, consumer attitudes, and their challenges and opportunities with future perspectives.

scholarly journals Beat Bad Microbes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Walker ◽  
Manjula Halai ◽  
Rachel Warner ◽  
Josefina Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Information Campaign ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Clear Explanation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Resistant Infection ◽  
Health Related

Abstract Health-related information design has made a difference to people’s lives through clear explanation of procedures, processes, disease prevention and maintenance. This paper provides an example of user-centered design being applied to engage people with the prevention of drug-resistant infection. In particular, we focus on antibiotic resistance in the specific location of a community pharmacy in Rwanda. We describe an information campaign, Beat Bad Microbes, and summarize the challenges and opportunities of working in Rwanda on a cross-disciplinary project in which design research and practice are closely integrated.

scholarly journals Defining Phenotypes from Clinical Data to Drive Genomic Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie R. Robinson ◽  
Wei-Qi Wei ◽  
Dan M. Roden ◽  
Joshua C. Denny
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Data ◽  
Drug Response ◽  
Chart Review ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Response Traits

The rise in available longitudinal patient information in electronic health records (EHRs) and their coupling to DNA biobanks have resulted in a dramatic increase in genomic research using EHR data for phenotypic information. EHRs have the benefit of providing a deep and broad data source of health-related phenotypes, including drug response traits, expanding the phenomes available to researchers for discovery. The earliest efforts at repurposing EHR data for research involved manual chart review of limited numbers of patients but now typically involve applications of rule-based and machine learning algorithms operating on sometimes huge corpora for both genome-wide and phenome-wide approaches. In this review, we highlight the current methods, impact, challenges, and opportunities for repurposing clinical data to define patient phenotypes for genomic discovery. Use of EHR data has proven a powerful method for elucidating genomic influences on diseases, traits, and drug-response phenotypes and will continue to have increasing applications in large cohort studies.

Applying Social Marketing to Healthcare

2015 ◽  
pp. 957-971
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Cabrita ◽  
Miriam Cabrita
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lifestyle Behaviors ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Care Consumer ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Marketing Approach

There is now an emerging view of health care as a sector of the economy. The subject is increasingly gaining the interest of policy makers and health care industry researchers as a way of modifying the incidence and impact of unhealthy behavior and disease. Health-related social marketing is the systematic application of commercial marketing principles to achieve behavioral goals relevant to improving health and reducing health inequalities. Whilst commercial marketing seeks to influence behavior for profit, social marketing encourages behaviors that provide well being for individuals or for society as a whole. Several studies set out the importance of using a social marketing approach to encourage positive health behavior. There are therefore a number of challenges and opportunities for social marketing to be used to change health care consumer behavior. Social marketing has been used to persuade a specific audience, mainly through mass media, to adopt an idea, a practice, a product, or all three. To develop social marketing programs, marketers must know about the problem to be addressed, understand the audience to be targeted, and interpret the environment in which the program will be applied. The premise is that all program planning decisions must emanate from a consideration of the consumers' wants, demands, and needs. The aim of this chapter is to examine ways in which social marketing can help to promote health care attitudes. Exploring key concepts, the study focuses on the application of social marketing theory and principles to healthcare. Using a social marketing approach, it was examines the program UpForIt, which aims to influence students aged 16-24 years old to increase their levels of physical activity and adopt healthy eating behaviors. By examining strategies implemented, it identifies that young adults are willing to voluntarily change their lifestyle behaviors, given the appropriate target audience.

Continuous hydrogenolysis of acetal-stabilized lignin in flow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Lan ◽  
Yuan Peng Du ◽  
Songlan Sun ◽  
Jean Behaghel de Bueren ◽  
Florent Héroguel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

We performed a steady state high-yielding depolymerization of soluble acetal-stabilized lignin in flow, which offered a window into challenges and opportunities that will be faced when continuously processing this feedstock.

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