scholarly journals SPORTS AND EXERCISE MEDICINE IN THE COVID-19 ERA -LET’S MAKE IT A GOOD MARATHON RUN

2021 ◽  
pp. 553
Author(s):  
Milena Tomović
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Data ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Exercise Medicine ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Sports And Exercise ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
Short Narrative

The aim of this short narrative review is to investigate the role of sports and exercise medicine (SEM) in managing the current and future pandemics. The coronavirus outbreak caught the whole world by surprise and very quickly imposed the long run ahead of us, changing every aspect of modern living. Being primarily a health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic placed the biggest strain on the medical community and science. Our understanding of the new circumstances is constantly being updated with new scientific data and medical and other professions directly dealing with the pandemic has to provide the best available (evidence-based) approach. SEM expertise has a huge impact on population’s general health and its role in dealing with COVID-19 and future pandemics has to be recognised in several aspects. The multidisciplinary, prevention-orientated, and structured approach of SEM can be crucial for health-oriented community changes.

Bhutan: The Role of the Constitutional Monarch in a Public Health Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Sonam Tshering ◽  
Nima Dorji
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Drug Smuggling ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The People ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Government

This chapter reflects on Bhutan’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The people’s trust and confidence in the leadership of His Majesty the King, their government, strong Buddhist values to help each other, and the conscience of unity and solidarity proved their foremost strength in containing this pandemic as a nation. The king’s personal involvement helped guide, motivate, and encourage compliance with and support for the government’s response. However, Bhutan faced several challenges during the pandemic. Though most of the people are united, there are outliers who took advantage of the situation; there are reported cases of drug smuggling and one case of a person who escaped from quarantine. The government responded by increasing border patrols. In the long run, other solutions could be considered: installing a smart wall—using drones, sensors, and artificial intelligence patrols—would give Bhutan more control over its borders in the context of another epidemic while also enabling the government to better control smuggling.

scholarly journals Sustainable, Smart and Safe Mobility at the Core of Sustainable Tourism in Six European Islands

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Claudio Mantero
Keyword(s):  
Large City ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Core ◽  
Long Run

AbstractTransport and tourism are rising economic sectors based on their mutual growth on reliable technological tools, affordable energy sources in relatively peaceful decades. This growing trend, faced along years of sudden slowdown caused mainly by the financial and health crisis; one of the most severe and recent episodes was the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic outbreak is representing a global turning point for both international markets of tourism and transport which can be addressed with innovative solutions looking to retake the growing trends. In such a changing framework CIVITAS DESTINATIONS European project addressed the main challenges of tourism and resident mobility at local (rural, urban area, large city) and regional levels, focusing on six European islands (Malta, Cyprus, Elba, Crete, Gran Canaria, Madeira) aiming to implement and evaluate 83 different sustainable mobility measures. The project proves to have a cumulative relevant impact on environmental indicators such as CO2 emission avoided, fossil fuel saved and energy saved. Additionally, the project findings focus on the quality of life and economic development to grant long-run environmental and financial sustainability of tourism and transport at the local and regional levels. The main aspects observed were related to public participation and governance models in touristic mobility integrated with the residents’ needs, touristic mobility the island, role of technologies to focus on final user needs, growing trends of elder and disabled people, new integrated and innovative business in tourism and mobility markets, health at the core of future trends.

The Responsibility Paradox

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Amy Yamei Wang ◽  
Cheryl Qianru Zhang ◽  
Eko Liao
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Business World ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

As countries start to emerge from the pandemic with the development of vaccines, the impact of COVID-19 and the changes it has initiated in the business world will continue to be felt across industries. In this chapter, real-life stories from three different industries—chain restaurants, interior design, and cafés—and the lessons they have learned will be discussed and analyzed. The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in SMEs is highlighted as a strategy in which organizations can promote the long-term sustainability of their business. Then, three companies in various industries will be introduced with details about how COVID-19 has changed their outlook and goals in competing with other firms and the ways in which they confronted the pandemic. Finally, the authors share implications and offer helpful recommendations as to how SMEs can leverage resources smartly to engage in smart CSR initiatives in better dealing with a global health crisis and play a larger role in taking care of stakeholders in the long run.

The role of the sports and exercise medicine physician in the national health service

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. e1-e1
Author(s):  
P. O'Halloran ◽  
V. T. Brown ◽  
K. Morgan ◽  
N. Maffulli ◽  
M. Perry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Exercise Medicine ◽  
Medicine Physician ◽  
Sports And Exercise

scholarly journals Wounded healers: a call for spiritual care towards healthcare professionals in time of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Joseph D Sarmiento
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
To Come ◽  
Wounded Healers

Abstract In recent correspondences and articles published, the role of religious and spiritual interventions has been discussed for the attention of the medical community in the time of COVID-19 pandemic and part of these interventions is to provide spiritual care. Attention has been given to provide spiritual care among COVID-19 patients. However, there is also a dire need to offer spiritual care towards healthcare professionals because they, too, are ‘wounded healers’. This paper discusses the urgent call for the medical and spiritual communities to come up with comprehensive spiritual care programme for healthcare professionals so that they may attain spiritual well-being as they serve in the frontlines, risking their lives and providing spiritual care to patients especially in this trying times of the pandemic as a public health crisis.

scholarly journals Hypertension Today: Role of Sports and Exercise Medicine

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Stefani ◽  
Gabriele Mascherini ◽  
Benedetta Tosi ◽  
Giorgio Galanti
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Antihypertensive Drugs ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Exercise Medicine ◽  
Sports And Exercise

Progressive increase of cardiovascular disease (CVD), with a rising costs for the society, is driving to focus on risk’s factors reduction. The importance to prevent acute events and to reduce mortality and morbility have risen the sound of the correct life style indications as the primary approach for hypertension. The new classification of hypertension has amplified an high-value of the role of the physical activity especially in the initial phase of the disease when the potential positive impact of the regular physical activity can permit to avoid the use of the pharmacological treatment. The numbers of the hypertensive subjects is increasing everywhere; however the awareness of the presence of the disease is not so frequent. Although some risk factors, such as age and hereditary factors cannot be changed, on the contrary lifestyle’s modification can prevent the CVD and hypertension. Sports Medicine physicians agree that healthcare providers need to focus on preventive and lifestyle aspects of cardiovascular care to promote individual and population health. A dedicated approach to prescribe the amount of weekly physical activity at moderate intensity can allow to control the blood pressure values avoiding the assumption of antihypertensive drugs. Aerobic and resistance exercises need to be individually established by dedicated models tailored on the basis of the specific characteristics of the people involved. Sports and Exercise Medicine can contributes to manage and to tailor the amount of programmed physical activity starting from the ”exercise prescription” guidelines.

scholarly journals The role of the sports and exercise medicine physician in the National Health Service: a questionnaire-based survey

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (14) ◽  
pp. 1143-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
P O'Halloran ◽  
V T. Brown ◽  
K Morgan ◽  
N Maffulli ◽  
M Perry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Exercise Medicine ◽  
Medicine Physician ◽  
Sports And Exercise
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