scholarly journals Identification of a new subtype of influenza virus A(H1N2)

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Watson ◽  
M Zambon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
World Health ◽  
Influenza Surveillance ◽  
Surveillance Programme ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

A meeting of influenza experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva this week has considered the recent isolation of a new subtype of the influenza A virus, A(H1N2) (1). The meeting was held to review the global influenza situation and decide the composition for the influenza vaccine for the northern hemisphere for winter 2002/03, and was based on information from the WHO global influenza surveillance programme and the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) surveillance of influenza in England and Wales.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of Indonesian Public Conversation about COVID-19 Epidemics on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Habibi ◽  
Adri Priadana ◽  
Muhammad Rifqi Ma’arif
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
World Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in more than six million confirmed cases and more than 371,000 deaths globally on June 1, 2020. The incident sparked a flood of scientific research to help society deal with the virus, both inside and outside the medical domain. Research related to public health analysis and public conversations about the spread of COVID-19 on social media is one of the highlights of researchers in the world. People can analyze information from social media as supporting data about public health. Analyzing public conversations will help the relevant authorities understand public opinion and information gaps between them and the public, helping them develop appropriate emergency response strategies to address existing problems in the community during the pandemic and provide information on the population's emotions in different contexts. However, research related to the analysis of public health and public conversations was so far conducted only through supervised analysis of textual data. In this study, we aim to analyze specifically the sentiment and topic modeling of Indonesian public conversations about the COVID-19 on Twitter using the NLP technique. We applied some methods to analyze the sentiment to obtain the best classification method. In this study, the topic modeling was carried out unsupervised using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The results of this study reveal that the most frequently discussed topic related to the COVID-19 pandemic is economic issues.

scholarly journals Very little influenza in the WHO European Region during the 2020/21 season, weeks 40 2020 to 8 2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Adlhoch ◽  
Piers Mook ◽  
Favelle Lamb ◽  
Lisa Ferland ◽  
Angeliki Melidou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Seasonal Influenza ◽  
Influenza Season ◽  
World Health ◽  
European Region ◽  
Influenza Epidemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Viral Subtypes

Between weeks 40 2020 and 8 2021, the World Health Organization European Region experienced a 99.8% reduction in sentinel influenza virus positive detections (33/25,606 tested; 0.1%) relative to an average of 14,966/39,407 (38.0%; p < 0.001) over the same time in the previous six seasons. COVID-19 pandemic public health and physical distancing measures may have extinguished the 2020/21 European seasonal influenza epidemic with just a few sporadic detections of all viral subtypes. This might possibly continue during the remainder of the influenza season.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic, Biogerontology, and the Ageing of Humanity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Farrelly
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Priorities ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disease Mortality ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health Burdens

Abstract The World Health Organization designated the decade 2020–2030 as the “decade of healthy ageing.” It is a tragic irony that the year 2020 should begin with a pandemic that is so lethal for older persons. Not only are older persons the most vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality, but many of the mitigation efforts to slow the spread of the virus have imposed yet further emotional and mental health burdens on the most vulnerable among those older than 70 years. To help prevent future infectious disease mortality and suffering, as well as the profound health burdens from the chronic diseases associated with ageing, insights from biogerontology must become an integral part of global public health priorities. The timing is ripe for making the public health aspiration of developing an applied gerontological intervention a reality.

scholarly journals Levels of Salt in Romanian Food in 2009

2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina Aurelia ZUGRAVU ◽  
Monica PARVU ◽  
Monica TARCEA ◽  
Daniela PATRASCU ◽  
Anca STOIAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Salt Content ◽  
World Health ◽  
Processed Food ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Health Authorities ◽  
Health Organization

Salt is the oldest preservative used for food. But the excessive consume of salt is at the origin of blood hypertension, a problem responsible for a huge number of human diseases and deaths. As a consequence, the level of salt added in processed food has to diminish progressively. At the end of 2009, the Public Health Authorities from 29 Romanian counties reported results from the salt analysis of 1321 samples of different foods. The highest levels of salt were found in “telemea” cheese and the significant salt content in other widely consumed food underlined the necessity for a joined effort in order to bring down salt and to comply with the World Health Organization target

scholarly journals Algerian University During the Corona Virus Pandemic: COVID-19 - Bechar University as a Sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Souad Guessar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Authority ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

In March 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the new Corona virus is a global pandemic. The World Health Organization and the public health authority of various countries are working to contain the spread of the virus through quarantine. But these crises raise the level of stress and psychological tension on individuals and society. As well as Algeria is not an exception and this research will be on the extent of the impact of the pandemic on the conduct of lessons at the universities level in Algeria, which were not equipped for such situations during the outbreak of the emerging corona virus, and try to analyze the situation and then proposing some solutions that can work if it hurts humanity and the Algerians, especially an epidemic like the Corona virus pandemic (COVID-19).

scholarly journals SITUAÇÃO ATUAL DA QUALIDADE DO AR DAS PRINCIPAIS CIDADES DA AMÉRICA LATINA

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 523
Author(s):  
Liana Giselle Murcia ◽  
Edison Ortiz ◽  
Jorge Martins ◽  
Marcos Morais ◽  
Leda Ardiles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
World Health ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Who Guidelines ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Health Organization

In this paper was done the compilation of Particulate Matter (PM) concentrations for the largest cities in Latin America, with over 1 million inhabitants in order to investigate the air quality situation in this region. For this study were obtained data from 28 cities of 13 countries from the World Health Organization reports (WHO), government agencies and monitoring stations. The results shows that, in most cities, the levels established by WHO guidelines, both PM10 and PM2.5, are exceeded, providing conditions that threaten the public health of citizens.

scholarly journals Vaccine Hesitancy, Acceptance, and Anti-Vaccination: Trends and Future Prospects for Public Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Ève Dubé ◽  
Jeremy K. Ward ◽  
Pierre Verger ◽  
Noni E. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
World Health ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

An often-stated public health comment is that “vaccination is a victim of its own success.” While the scientific and medical consensus on the benefits of vaccination is clear and unambiguous, an increasing number of people are perceiving vaccines as unsafe and unnecessary. The World Health Organization identified “the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite availability of vaccines” as one of the 10 threats to global health in 2019. The negative influence of anti-vaccination movements is often named as a cause of increasing vaccine resistance in the public. In this review, we give an overview of the current literature on the topic, beginning by agreeing on terminology and concepts before looking at potential causes, consequences, and impacts of resistance to vaccination.

scholarly journals A Review of SARS-CoV2: Compared With SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Zhou ◽  
Junfa Yang ◽  
Chang Zhou ◽  
Bangjie Chen ◽  
Hui Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Cytokine Storm ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Genomic Similarity

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading rapidly in China and the Chinese government took a series of policies to control the epidemic. Studies found that severe COVID-19 is characterized by pneumonia, lymphopenia, exhausted lymphocytes and a cytokine storm. Studies have showen that SARS-CoV2 has significant genomic similarity to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV), which was a pandemic in 2002. More importantly, some diligent measures were used to limit its spread according to the evidence of hospital spread. Therefore, the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) has been established by the World Health Organization (WHO) with strategic objectives for public health to curtail its impact on global health and economy. The purpose of this paper is to review the transmission patterns of the three pneumonia: SARS-CoV2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV. We compare the new characteristics of COVID-19 with those of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV.

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