scholarly journals One Year of COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Fatality Ratio and Infection Fatality Ratio. A Systematic Analysis of 219 Countries and Territories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Teppone
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Case Fatality Ratio ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
Objective Basis ◽  
One Year

Background. January 2021 marked one year since the start of COVID-19 pandemic: it is the time of intermediate conclusions. Objective. To evaluate CFR and IFR due to COVID-19 in various countries and territories, and to study if parameters of a population age affect CFR and IFR. Material and Methods. The databases of 219 countries were collected on the Worldometers, Index Mundi, Country Meters and World Bank websites. The processing of data was divided into two parts: the first part dealt with the calculation and analysis of CFR while the second, the calculation and analysis of IFR. Results. The calculations revealed that in 74 out of 219 countries, CFR was less than 1.00 %, in 69 countries it varied between 1.00 % and 2.00 %, and in 76 countries it was more than 2.00 %. The calculation of IFR revealed that in 183 countries, IFR was less than 1.00 %, in 22 countries IFR was between 1.00 % and 2.00 %, and only in 14 out of 219 countries IFR was more than 2.00 %. A correlation between IFR and parameters of a population age was found: the less median age and the percentage of 'aged' people – the less value of IFR, although, there was no correlation between parameters of a population age and CFR. Conclusion. The global health care system has gone through a year of serious trial caused by COVID-19 and appeared to have emerged victorious. In the majority of countries analyzed, the parameters of mortality due to COVID-19 were at a low level. So, there seems to be an objective basis for optimism and hope for an early end to the pandemic.

scholarly journals Development of a Global Health Teaching Fellowship for Global Health Care Capacity Building

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Mimno ◽  
Natasha Anushri Anandaraja ◽  
Sigrid Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
Care Capacity ◽  
Health Teaching

Three Approaches to Global Health Care Justice: Rejecting the Positive/Negative Rights Distinction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. DeMartino ◽  
Jonathan D. Moyer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Negative Rights ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
Negative Duties ◽  
Health Care Justice ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter presents three cosmopolitan approaches to global health care justice: Thomas Pogge's negative duties based approach, Gillian Brock's minimal needs view, and Henry Shue's model of basic rights. While these approaches share a common focus on attempting to justify the existence of global duties to aid, held by the wealthy and owed to the global poor, each offers a distinct interpretation of why such duties exist and suggests a range of options for fulfilling them. Importantly, while the chapter argues that Shue's approach to global duties is the most effective of the three, it considers that they all offer important insight into the problem of global poverty and provide a variety of possible practical solutions to this problem.

Advanced Issues of Health Informatics and Clinical Decision Support System in Global Health Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Clinical Decision Support ◽  
Support System ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Clinical Decision Support System ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Global Health Care

This chapter indicates the advanced issues of health informatics; the advanced issues of Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS); CDSS and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE); the false positive alerts in CDSS; and CDSS and biomedical engineering. Health informatics and CDSS are the advanced health care technologies with the support of many technological fields. Health informatics and CDSS apply various computerized devices to provide enhanced health-related outcomes in terms of problem solving, analytical thinking, and decision making. Health informatics and CDSS help clinicians and health care providers to make complex information useful in supporting clinical decisions, thus delivering the best standard of care for each patient. The chapter argues that utilizing health informatics and CDSS has the potential to increase health outcomes and reach strategic goals in global health care.

Mobile Health Systems and Electronic Health Record

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Electronic Health Record ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Global Health Care ◽  
Mobile Health Systems ◽  
Electronic Health

This chapter reveals the overview of mobile health systems; the adoption of mobile health systems; mobile health systems and patient monitoring; the overview of mobile health technology; the advanced issues of Electronic Health Record (EHR); and the challenges of EHR in global health care. Mobile health helps deliver the health care services with quality care, improved workflow, and increased patient interaction while minimizing complexity and cost to achieve the desired goals in health care settings. EHR systems are the real-time and patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. The chapter argues that applying mobile health systems and EHR has the potential to improve health care efficiency and gain sustainable competitive advantage in global health care.

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