scholarly journals A Review on Present Scenario of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rejaur Rahman ◽  
Emran Hossain Sajib ◽  
Ishtiak Malique Chowdhury ◽  
Anik Banik ◽  
Rahul Bhattacharya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Spread Of Infection

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been showing a speedy growth in the number of infected patients with a remarkable mortality rate, thus it has become a worldwide public health concern. From March 8, 2020, the disease was confirmed to start spreading in Bangladesh. Since then, people got infected so exponentially that the country positions at the list of top infected countries in the world. Therefore, the objective of this comprehensive review was representing overall scenario of COVID-19 in different sectors of Bangladesh, particularly prioritizing the health sector. Up to 14 September 2020, 339,332 confirmed cases and 4,759 deaths were reported. An alarming fact is that while the global mutation rate of coronavirus is 7.23 % in average, the rate is 12.6 % in Bangladesh. Although the government ruled preventive strategies such as nationwide lockdown, social distancing, contact monitoring, quarantine and isolation, it was difficult to implement those due to lack of public awareness, inappropriate attitudes and so on. Moreover, the overburdened healthcare system had a weak response at initial stage because of insufficient healthcare facilities. Consequently, this pandemic affected severely almost all the important sectors of the country, specifically the economy, agriculture and health sectors. Hence, focusing on healthcare system as well as maintaining social distance and other essential precautions can limit the spread of infection and help to alleviate the severity of the pandemic.

scholarly journals The Poor and the Pandemic- COVID 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 652-659
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Infected Individual ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Asymptomatic Individual ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Respiratory Droplets ◽  
The Impact

The pandemic of coronavirus disease commonly known as covid 19 is known to be caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to public health concern. The infection is known to be transmitted via respiratory droplets during close face to face contact with an infected individual or may be transmitted by asymptomatic individual. The time from exposure to symptom onset is estimated to be around 14 days. The most common symptoms are fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. In fight against the infection, the Government of India imposed nationwide lockdown from 24 March ,2020 onwards to prevent the spread of infection. The Government of India claims to have won battle against the pandemic by stating that the number of cases would have been higher if nationwide lockdown had not been imposed. However this claimed is being questioned as the number of cases is on the rise each day we see. In this brief review, we aim to discuss the impact of pandemic covid 19 on poor people of India.

Challenges in prevention & control of COVID - 19 pandemic in dentistry: A review. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameera Begum ◽  
Riaz Abdulla ◽  
Akhter Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
College Hospital ◽  
Dental Clinics ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
High Chance

UNSTRUCTURED The menace of COVID 19 pandemic has become a major public health concern all over the world. It is a pandemic outbreak that originated from Wuhan, Hubei province of China in December 2019. All healthcare professionals including dental surgeons are in the front line and a high chance of constantly getting infected. Droplet and aerosol transmissions are the utmost concern in dental clinics and dental college hospitals. Hence, COVID 19 has a high risk of spread through droplets and aerosols generated during dental procedures from infected patients. This review article highlights the dental perspective and discusses the various preventive measures undertaken to control the spread of infection in dental clinics and dental college hospital setups.

scholarly journals Healthcare systems: typologies, framework models, and South Africa’s health sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shadrack Katuu
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Healthcare ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Government

Purpose A healthcare system in any country is rarely the product of one logical policy-making experience, but rather a manifestation of many years of historical development. The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics, components, and variables of South Africa’s healthcare system in the context of global patterns. It leverages a dynamic period in South Africa since 1994, and applies a comparative health systems analysis to explain where the country’s healthcare system is, and where it is potentially going. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews literature related to South Africa’s healthcare system, outlines its historical development, and discusses three fundamental challenges experienced in the country. This paper also reviews the literature on healthcare system typologies and identifies three framework models that have been used to categorise national healthcare systems since the 1970s. This paper then discusses the categorisation of South Africa’s healthcare system in these models, in comparison to Canada and the USA. Findings This paper finds that the framework models are useful tools for comparative analysis of healthcare systems. However, any use of such typologies should be done with the awareness that national healthcare systems are not isolated entities because they function within a larger context. They are not static, since they are constantly evolving with many nuances, even with very similar healthcare system categorisations. Originality/value This paper charts the trajectory of change in the South African healthcare system, and demonstrates that the change process must keep internal conditions in mind if the outcome is to be successful. Imitating policies of countries with well-functioning systems, without regard to local realities, may not work, as the government attempts to usher in changes within a short span of time.

scholarly journals Australasian Public Awareness and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Motivational Correlates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew Marques ◽  
Mathew Ling ◽  
Matt Williams ◽  
John Kerr ◽  
Jim McLennan
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Representative Samples

Conspiracism is not restricted to the fringe dwellers of society. International research suggests that such beliefs are quite common and that conspiracy theories may serve three basic psychological motives (i.e., epistemic, existential, and relational) for individuals. Yet, little is known about conspiracy theory awareness or conspiracism in Australasia. We report the first large systematic investigation of system justifying motives using two nationally representative samples of Australians (n = 1,011) and New Zealanders (n = 754). Our findings show that almost all are aware of local and international conspiracies, and the majority endorse one or more. Also, that all three psychological motives consistently relate to conspiracism but not to awareness. In a series of hierarchical multiple regressions, we find that epistemic (i.e., decreased analytic thinking), existential (i.e., less trust in others, and socially conservative political ideology and increased religiosity), and relational motives (i.e., increased anomie and disillusionment with the government) were all significant unique predictors of increased local and international conspiracism. Findings are discussed in terms of the importance of understanding conspiracism as an ideological belief system that may function to serve underlying psychological motives.

scholarly journals e-Health in Developing Countries: Bangladeshi Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 908-914
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
The People ◽  
Medical Sector ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Economic Improvement

Currently, utilizing of Information and Communication technology (ICT) in medical sector has been gained a lot of interests in global community i,e. developed, developing and under developed countries. Now-a-days, ICT intervention in almost all arena of medical services is very evident in Bangladesh and stakeholders are getting its benefits with this IT-assisted medical services. As a matter of fact, the government of Bangladesh already has declared ICT as one of its priority sectors; hence a large amount of budget for enhancing ICT in medical sector have been allocated. This paper explains the present scenario of the use of IT in medical sector of Bangladesh as well as this is an initiative to provide some guidelines and recommendation for possible socio – economic improvement of Bangladesh through exploiting the potential of IT in health sector. In addition to that, this work also gives a brief summery and comparative study about the scenario of health services in developed and developing countries. Finally, this research tries to comprehensively focus on ICT potentials in medical area in order to find future visionary direction for the ICT based medical services that match the socio-economic constraint of the people at Bangladesh.

The public health concern of mental illnesses: Strengthening of the mental health sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
SaurabhR Shrivastava ◽  
PrateekS Shrivastava ◽  
Jegadeesh Ramasamy
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Charlie ant insect bite-associated preseptal cellulitis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
Patricia Ann John ◽  
Sylves Patrick ◽  
Qi Zhe Ngoo ◽  
Wan Hazabbah Wan Hitam ◽  
Adil Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Nasal Bridge ◽  
Preseptal Cellulitis ◽  
Eyelid Swelling ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Contiguous Spread

Preseptal cellulitis is a worrying condition in children. One of the commonest causes is from insect bite. The Charlie ant or Paederus fuscipes has been reported as a dermatitis-causing agent due to its toxin, pederin. The aim is to report a case of preseptal cellulitis secondary to Charlie ant insect bite. A two-year-old girl presented with bilateral eyelid swelling, redness, and pain for two days. The Charlie ant was at the nasal bridge before the presentation. There was presence of generalised bilateral eyelid swelling, redness with multiple pustules, excoriated skin, and eye discharge. She was admitted and started on antibiotics. The pustules ruptured, left the skin exposed, and her condition improved. Preseptal cellulitis is a contiguous spread of infection. An attack by Charlie ant has become a public health concern. There is no specific treatment for this condition. Early detectionmay prevent complications.

scholarly journals Discovery of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase-1(NDM-1) Inhibitors From Natural Compounds: In Silico-Based Methods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azhar Salari-jazi ◽  
Karim Mahnam ◽  
Parisa Sadeghi ◽  
Mohammad Sadegh Damavandi ◽  
Jamshid Faghri
Keyword(s):  
Binding Free Energy ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Natural Compounds ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Multi Drug Resistance ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Public Health Concern ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Almost All

Abstract New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase variants and different types of metallo-β-lactamases have attracted enormous consideration for hydrolyzing almost all β-lactam antibiotics, which leads to multi drug resistance bacteria. Metallo-β-lactamases genes have disseminated in hospitals and all parts of the world and became a public health concern. There is no inhibitor for new Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 and other metallo-β-lactamases classes, so metallo-β-lactamases inhibitor drugs became an urgent need. In this study, multi-steps virtual screening was done over the NPASS database with 35032 natural compounds. At first Captopril was extracted from 4EXS PDB code and use as a template for the first structural screening and 500 compounds obtained as hit compounds by molecular docking. Then the best ligand, i.e. NPC120633 was used as templet and 800 similar compounds were obtained. As a final point, ten compounds i.e. NPC171932, NPC100251, NPC18185, NPC98583, NPC112380, NPC471403, NPC471404, NPC472454, NPC473010 and NPC300657 had proper docking scores, and a 50 ns molecular dynamics simulation was performed for calculation binding free energy of each compound with new Delhi metallo-β-lactamase. 3D conformational alignment and protein sequence alignment of all new Delhi metallo-β-lactamase variants and all types of metallo-β-lactamases were done. Then the conserved and crucial residues in the catalytic activity of metallo-β-lactamases were detected. These residues had similar 3D coordinates in the 3D conformational alignment. So it is possible that all types of metallo-β-lactamases can inhibit by these ten compounds. Therefore, these compounds were proper to mostly inhibit all new Delhi metallo-β-lactamase and metallo-β-lactamases in experimental studies.

scholarly journals Upaya Bersama Masyarakat Dalam Memperkokoh Mindset Pencegahan Penularan COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Martinus Robert Hutauruk ◽  
Aas Indarahmadani
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Village

Penyebaran wabah COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease Tahun 2019) yang bermula di bulan Desember 2019 dari salah satu negara di Asia semakin meluas dan berskala pandemi telah mencapai hingga ke hampir di seluruh belahan dunia. Di Indonesia penyebaran COVID-19  ini telah menularkan hingga mencapai 307.120 orang, dengan korban meninggal sebanyak 11.253 jiwa (BNPB, 2020b). Situasi ini menggambarkan bahwa penyebaran virus corona adalah secara masif dan dengan korban jiwa yang besar. Hingga saat ini belum ada pengobatan yang dapat menyembuhkan virus corona ini. Penyebaran COVID-19 ini semakin meluas hingga ke seluruh wilayah di Indonesia, dan tidak terkecuali di wilayah pedesaan. Permasalahan yang dialami oleh masyarakat desa adalah kurangnya kepedulian masyarakat terhadap pandemi COVID-19 dan protokol kesehatan yang telah ditetapkan pemerintah sebagai upaya dalam memutus rantai penyebaran virus corona. Di satu sisi masyarakat desa berupaya untuk dapat mempertahankan ekonomi keluarganya dengan tetap melakukan aktivitas di luar rumah walaupun dengan risiko yang besar. Melihat situasi ini maka tergerak keinginan untuk melakukan program bakti sosial dengan tujuan sebagai salah satu bentuk kepedulian dan realisasi dari kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat khususnya di pedesaan. Kegiatan dalam upaya bersama masyarakat untuk memperkokoh mindset masyarakat terhadap pencegahan penyebaran COVID-19 adalah melalui pembuatan spanduk himbauan di beberapa lokasi yang sering dilewati masyarakat, penyemprotan disinfektan ke rumah-rumah warga, penempelan stiker, dan sosialisasi protokol kesehatan sebagai wujud dari mengubah mindset masayarakat yang masih belum percaya. Seluruh kegiatan ini mendapatkan dukungan dan antusiasme masyarakat desa yang berjumlah 2.325 jiwa serta mampu mengubah mindset sebelumnya. The spread of the Coronavirus Diseases 2019 called the COVID-19 outbreak, which began in December 2019 from one of the countries in Asia. That is increasingly widespread, and the pandemic scale has reached almost all parts of the world. In Indonesia, the spread of COVID-19 has infected up to 307,120 people, with 11,253 deaths (BNPB, 2020b). This situation illustrates that the spread of the coronavirus is massive and with enormous casualties. Until now, no treatment can cure this coronavirus. COVID-19 is increasingly spreading to all regions in Indonesia, and rural areas are no exception. The problems experienced by rural communities are the lack of public awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic and the health protocols that the government has set to break the chain of the spread of the coronavirus. On the one hand, the village community strives to maintain the family's economy by carrying out activities outside the home even though it is at significant risk. Seeing this situation, the desire to carry out social service programs moved to concern and realization of community service activities, especially in rural areas. Activities in a joint effort with the community to strengthen the community's mindset towards preventing the spread of COVID-19 are through the making of appeal banners in several locations that are often passed by the community, spraying disinfectants into people's homes, sticking stickers, and socializing health protocols as a form of changing the mindset of people who still do not believe it. All of these activities received the support and enthusiasm of the village community, totaling 2,325 people, and were able to change the previous mindset.

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