scholarly journals COVID-19 Global Healthcare System Failures: The Desperate Need for a Paradigm Shift for Better Medical Materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
New Materials ◽  
System Failures ◽  
Diagnostic Kits ◽  
Platform Technology ◽  
Medical Materials ◽  
Viral Outbreak ◽  
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COVID-19 has highlighted numerous failures in our global healthcare system, from a system focussed on centralized hospitals to a lack of platform technologies to treat viral outbreaks. This presentation will highlight new materials being developed to aid in COVID-19 prevention, detection, and therapy. Rather than waiting for a year or longer for vaccine development, this presentation will highlight how nanomaterials can be a platform technology modified to treat every new virus that comes along. It will also highlight the use of at-home sensors and diagnostic kits that make it easy for patients to determine if they have been exposed to viruses rather than going to a facility (i.e., hospital) in which their infection could spread. Overall, this presentation will demonstrate how new materials will better prepare us for our next viral outbreak and begin to heal our current global healthcare system, which has demonstrated significant failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SARS-CoV-2: Molecular biology and therapeutic target.

Coronaviruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Pandey ◽  
Ankita Pathak ◽  
Mohammad Shahar Yar ◽  
Yuba Raj Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
Viral Genome ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Viral Proteins ◽  
Current Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Repurposed Drugs ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Economic Infrastructure ◽  
Viral Outbreak

: A century after the outbreak of the Spanish flu, the world is suffering with another pandemic on because of the coronavirus. The virus took a toll of more than millions of lives worldwide and still continues to affect the health and socio-economic infrastructure all over the world. The study explores the epidemiology, etiology and transmission of the virus and its phylogenetic relationship with SARS and MERS coronavirus responsible for 2002 and 2012 viral outbreak. Highlights about the key features of the viral genome and essential viral proteins responsible for viral life cycle, evading host immune response, and viral immunopathology with therapeutics from “Recovery” and “Solidarity” trials, are major concern of the current review. The review culminated with a discussion on different classes of front-runners vaccines and their efficacy. An overall understanding of essential viral proteins and their role in pathogenesis, repurposed drugs and vaccine development is the rationale of the present review.

scholarly journals Rethinking Vaccine Development as an Integral Part of Preparedness in the European Health Union

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-830
Author(s):  
Marco RIZZI
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Vaccine Research ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
European Health ◽  
Epidemic Diseases

This opinion piece puts forward a critique of the policy and regulatory frameworks governing vaccines, understood as tools to confront pandemic and epidemic diseases (PEDs). Vaccines being the universally recognised prime method of prevention, immunisation campaigns and vaccine research and development (R&D) could reasonably be expected to feature prominently in any policy and/or strategic document addressing emerging health threats. Yet, vaccination occupies a relatively subsidiary role, with a prevalent focus on risk management mechanisms. This piece outlines the main characteristics of preparedness frameworks and looks at vaccine development in the course of PED outbreaks in the recent past, concluding that the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a paradigm shift in vaccine R&D, which should become integral to public health preparedness.

The challenges of an integrated governance process in healthcare

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Delaney
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Delivery Of Healthcare ◽  
Content Type ◽  
System Failures ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Governance Process ◽  
Governance Processes

Purpose – Dysfunctional governance processes have contributed to catastrophic healthcare system failures due to discordance between clinical and corporate governance processes. The emergence of an integrated governance approach endeavours to overcome the traditional boundaries between corporate and clinical governance systems, to enhance understanding and transparency in the organisations approach to service provision. The purpose of this paper is to discusses the attributes of an integrated governance approach and its contribution to enhancing service delivery. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview of the governance approaches and the emergence of integrated governance to improve overall service delivery. Findings – An integrated governance approach erodes the traditional boundaries that exist within the complex healthcare system. This allows for a greater understanding of healthcare strategies and organisational objectives, and the dissemination of these throughout the organisation. Further, enhancing awareness within the clinical setting of the core attributes of the organisation and for the upper echelons of management to have a greater understanding of the clinical issues. Integrated governance acknowledges the contribution of all stakeholders including consumers in safe guarding the delivery of healthcare and its standards. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the discussion and debate regarding governance approaches and how these are situated in enhancing organisational performance.

Nanoarchitectonics: a new materials horizon for nanotechnology

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiko Ariga ◽  
Qingmin Ji ◽  
Waka Nakanishi ◽  
Jonathan P. Hill ◽  
Masakazu Aono
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
New Materials

A paradigm shift from nanotechnology to nanoarchitectonics has been proposed.

scholarly journals Voluntary Cyclical Distancing: A potential alternative to constant level mandatory social distancing, relying on an ‘infection weather report’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Constant Level ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
At Home

1AbstractCOVID-19 has significantly changed our daily lives. Stay-at-home orders and forced closings of all non-essential businesses has had a significant impact on our economy. While it is important to ensure that the healthcare system is not overwhelmed, there are many questions that remain about the efficacy of extreme social distancing, and whether there are alternatives to mandatory lockdowns. This paper analyzes the utility of various levels of social distancing, and suggests an alternative approach using voluntary distancing informed by an infectious load index or ‘infection weather report.’

scholarly journals Pioneering Construction Materials through Prototypological Research

Biomimetics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Heisel ◽  
Dirk E. Hebel
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Specific Question ◽  
New Type ◽  
Architectural Research

The article at hand follows the understanding that future cities cannot be built the same way as existing ones, inducing a radical paradigm shift in how we produce and use materials for the construction of our habitat in the 21st century. In search of a methodology for an integrated, holistic, and interdisciplinary development of such new materials and construction technologies, the chair of Sustainable Construction at KIT Karlsruhe proposes the concept of “prototypological” research. Coined through joining the terms “prototype” and “typology”, prototypology represents a full-scale application, that is an experiment and proof in itself to effectively and holistically discover all connected aspects and address unknowns of a specific question, yet at the same time is part of a bigger and systematic test series of such different typologies with similar characteristics, yet varying parameters. The second part of the article applies this method to the research on mycelium-bound building materials, and specifically to the four prototypologies MycoTree, UMAR, Rumah Tambah, and Futurium. The conclusion aims to place the results into the bigger research context, calling for a new type of architectural research.

The Netherlands—zorg in de gemeenschap

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Mark Britnell
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Care At Home ◽  
General Care ◽  
At Home

The Dutch healthcare system is considered by many to be one of the finest in the world because of its pioneering provision and decent level of funding. ‘Zorg in de gemeenschap’ or ‘care in the community’ is a both a distinguishing and defining feature of the Dutch cure and care system. The Dutch spend around 3.7% of their GDP on long-term care, the highest in the OECD, and offer many examples of innovation in caring for older people in the community and at home. Nearly 13% of the population aged over 65 receive care at home, compared with just 4.9% across the OECD. In this chapter, Mark Britnell looks at the Dutch healthcare system; its structure, funding, future, and much else. He points out that a strength of the Dutch healthcare system is the emphasis placed on well-resourced primary care, and looks at how it affects general care.

An Information Sharing System for Multi-Professional Collaboration in the community-based integrated healthcare system

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Hideaki Kanai ◽  
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Akinori Kumazawa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Professional Collaboration ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Integrated Healthcare ◽  
Comprehensive Health ◽  
One Year ◽  
At Home

Currently, Japan is rapidly aging. Japanese government agencies report that the percentage of elderly people whose ages are at least 65 years will increase by up to about 30 percent in 2025. As one of the measures towards this situation, the community-based integrated healthcare system will be introduced in Japan. The system aims to provide elderly people living at home with appropriate health, medical, and welfare services. We focus on the burden of sharing information on the situation of the elderly at home among health, medical, welfare staffs, and neighbors. We have been developing a supporting system for sharing information on the situation of the elderly at home and conducted a field test around one year. We consider that various stakeholders involved in the community comprehensive health care system could recognize the importance of information sharing and collaboration with them through this kind of social implementation

scholarly journals POLICY CHALLENGES FACED BY THE CURRENT UK HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ACHIEVING PATIENT DEATH AT HOME

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 505-505
Author(s):  
A. Ahmed ◽  
S. Jamshaid ◽  
D. Kerwat ◽  
F. Oyewole ◽  
D. Saleh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Patient Death ◽  
At Home
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