scholarly journals Catastrophic COVID-19 Second Wave in Aligarh: Lessons learnt

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-143
Author(s):  
Syed Ziaur Rahman ◽  
Saif Khan ◽  
- Shujauddin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure ◽  
Second Wave

The second wave of COVID-19 in India showed its devastated effect mainly in April-May 2021 and crumbled the whole health care infrastructure. Demand for medical oxygen was higher during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in comparison to the first spell. Three states viz Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi were more severely affected. Aligarh, a small district of around 1.8 million population lies in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). The district is famous as ‘Oxford of the East’ due to large number of intellectuals and teachers living and working at Aligarh Muslim University, was obviously not left unsaved in this second wave. The present paper discussed the catastrophic effect of COVID-19 second wave in Aligarh, the possible reasons behind it, preparation for the anticipated third wave and lessons learnt from the past experience. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.20(5) 2021 p.140-143

scholarly journals Evaluating Metrics Applied to the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Role: A Survey-Based Study of Canadian MSL Leaders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Munaza Saleem ◽  
Lisa Cesario ◽  
Lisa Wilcox ◽  
Marsha Haynes ◽  
Simon Collin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professional ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Specialty Care ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
The Past ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Quantitative Metrics ◽  
Frequency Of Use

Abstract Introduction Metrics utilized within the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) role are plentiful and traditionally quantitative. We sought to understand the current use and value of metrics applied to the MSL role, including the use of qualitative metrics. Methods We developed a list of 70 MSL leaders working in Canada, spanning 29 companies. Invitations were emailed Jun 16, 2020 and the 25-question online survey was open for 3 weeks. Questions were designed to assess demographics as well as how and why metrics are applied to the MSL role. Data analyses were descriptive. Results Responses were received from 44 leaders (63%). Of the 42 eligible, 45% had ≤ 2 years of experience as MSL leaders and 86% supported specialty care products over many phases of the product lifecycle. A majority (69%) agreed or strongly agreed that metrics are critical to understanding whether an MSL is delivering value, and 98% had used metrics in the past year. The most common reason to use metrics was ‘to show value/impact of MSLs to leadership’ (66%). The most frequently used metric was ‘number of health-care professional (HCP) interactions’, despite this being seen as having moderate value. Quantitative metrics were used more often than qualitative, although qualitative were more often highly valued. Conclusion The data collected show a lack of agreement between the frequency of use for some metrics and their value in demonstrating the contribution of an MSL. Overall, MSL leaders in our study felt qualitative metrics were a better means of showing the true impact of MSLs.

scholarly journals A Journey through and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indian Setup-Lessons Learnt So Far

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divyesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Health Security ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
The People ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Day By Day

World over life was going at its normal pace when an outbreak occurred in Hubei province of China in the later part of the year 2019. This outbreak was soon found to be caused by a virus named coronavirus (COVID-19). Rapidly the virus spread globally leading to a pandemic. The mortality rate was increasing day by day and helplessly everyone was wondering what actually could be done to prevent the spread. Lessons from the past epidemic made it possible to think that maintaining social distancing and adequate hygiene might help to combat the ailment. In India, majorly affected were the people from poor strata and the businessmen who were earning their daily bread by selling things of daily need. The health sector too witnessed an alarming ratio of patients suffering from COVID-19. The second wave, which soon followd the first wave, caused much more havoc. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic, exposed and challanged the health security system of every country. As the danger of pandemic still prevails, steps to curtail the spread of disease and future management strategies should be formulated from the lessons learnt through the COVID-19 phase.

scholarly journals The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sverre Raffnsøe ◽  
Andrea Mennicken ◽  
Peter Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Second Wave

Since the establishment of Organization Studies in 1980, Michel Foucault’s oeuvre has had a remarkable and continuing influence on its field. This article traces the different ways in which organizational scholars have engaged with Foucault’s writings over the past thirty years or so. We identify four overlapping waves of influence. Drawing on Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, the first wave focused on the impact of discipline, and techniques of surveillance and subjugation, on organizational practices and power relations. Part of a much wider ‘linguistic’ turn in the second half of the twentieth century, the second wave led to a focus on discourses as intermediaries that condition ways of viewing and acting. This wave drew mainly on Foucault’s early writings on language and discourse. The third wave was inspired by Foucault’s seminal lectures on governmentality towards the end of the 1970s. Here, an important body of international research investigating governmental technologies operating on subjects as free persons in sites such as education, accounting, medicine and psychiatry emerged. The fourth and last wave arose out of a critical engagement with earlier Foucauldian organizational scholarship and sought to develop a more positive conception of subjectivity. This wave draws in particular on Foucault’s work on asceticism and techniques of the self towards the end of his life. Drawing on Deleuze and Butler, the article conceives the Foucault effect in organization studies as an immanent cause and a performative effect. We argue for the need to move beyond the tired dichotomies between discipline and autonomy, compliance and resistance, power and freedom that, at least to some extent, still hamper organization studies. We seek to overcome such dichotomies by further pursuing newly emerging lines of Foucauldian research that investigate processes of organizing, calculating and economizing characterized by a differential structuring of freedom, performative and indirect agency.

Disclosure Two Ways

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Abortion Rights ◽  
State Statutes ◽  
Psychological Risks

In the past two decades, courts and scholars have grappled with the appropriateness of pre-abortion disclosures mandated by the state. Statutes requiring physicians to recite a specific script, often detailing potential psychological “risks” of choosing to terminate a pregnancy, have proliferated nationwide over the past decade. Opponents of such laws have sometimes characterized the requirement of a procedurespecific disclosure as unnecessary and unique to the abortion context. In recent years, however, state legislatures supportive of abortion rights have legislated procedure-specific mandatory disclosures in the context of assisted reproduction and other health care procedures with reproductive health impacts.

scholarly journals Natural Patterns and Magnetic and Mental Processes of Coronavirus Activation and Neutralization

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-05
Author(s):  
Evgeny Bryndin
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Mortality Increase ◽  
Repeated Infections ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Seriously Ill

For twenty years, humanity has seen the third attempt at the transition of coronavirus to humans. The vaccine has been found, but coronavirus transitions will not stop even with the improvement of medicine. Nobel laureate in medicine Professor Luc Montagnier argues that vaccines may not live up to humanity's hopes of getting rid of COVID-19. Collective immunity for coronavirus has not been developed, repeated infections are more and more common, beds of seriously ill people are not empty, and mortality is running high, no one knows what will happen to all of us. In Israel, where vaccination has long been compulsory, and over 60% of the population, including underage children, have been vaccinated, the incidence is not just declining, but still breaking all records. So, the maximum number of cases here was revealed on September 1 - 16,629, which almost caught up with Russia (18,368 confirmed on the same September 1) with our percentage of vaccinated 26.1% of the number of citizens. At the end of September 2021, morbidity and mortality increase, because it is a system. Based on existing monthly pneumonia mortality statistics over the past 15 years, there are three waves each year. Since September 22, there has been a surge of pneumonia, ARI, and even non-communicable diseases. The second wave comes at the end of December - January, it is usually three times larger than the first. Then around March-April there is a third wave. These three waves exist steadily from year to year, their amplitudes can change, then one will be higher, then the other, they are not absolutely hard on schedule, but they are reproduced regularly in other countries. The first wave of the Spanish pandemic covered the world just at the end of September 1918. The coronavirus was the same. The first wave in America is September 2019, an unexplained surge of pneumonia with a rather high mortality rate, which was written off for smoking e-cigarettes and called "vape." Now they decided to watch the surviving tests of patients, and there - COVID-19. In Europe, it was the same.

scholarly journals Evaluation of governmental oral health-care infrastructure in the state of Haryana

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
RamandeepSingh Gambhir ◽  
Ashish Vashist ◽  
Swati Parhar ◽  
RamandeepKaur Sohi ◽  
PuneetSingh Talwar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Oral Health Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure

Neuroexistentialism

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Second Wave

Existentialism is a concern about the foundation of meaning, morals, and purpose. Existentialisms arise when some foundation for these elements of being is under assault. In the past, first-wave existentialism concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion and religious tradition to provide such a foundation, as typified in the writings of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in response to the inability of an overly optimistic Enlightenment vision of reason and the common good to provide such a foundation. There is a third-wave existentialism, a new existentialism, developing in response to advances in the neurosciences that threaten the last vestiges of an immaterial soul or self. With the increasing explanatory and therapeutic power of neuroscience, the mind no longer stands apart from the world to serve as a foundation of meaning. This produces foundational anxiety. This collection of new essays explores the anxiety caused by this third-wave existentialism and some responses to it. It brings together some of the world’s leading philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars to tackle our neuroexistentialist predicament and explore what the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free will, moral responsibility, law, the nature of criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose.

scholarly journals Revitalising an academic pathology department: lessons learnt

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
Zu-hua Gao ◽  
Edith Zorychta ◽  
Jason Karamchandani ◽  
René P Michel ◽  
Fadi Brimo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Academic Development ◽  
Clinical Service ◽  
Basic Medical Science ◽  
Pathology Department ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Basic Medical

Pathology is a specialty that bridges basic medical science and clinical practice. In the era of personalised medicine, this specialty is facing unprecedented challenges. Some of these challenges are institution-specific, while many are shared worldwide at different magnitude. This review shares our team efforts in the past 5  years, 2012–2017, to revitalise a century-old academic pathology department in three aspects: administration, clinical service and academic development. The lessons learnt and insights gained from our experience may provide guidance to leaders in pathology or in other related specialties.

GENESIS OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE FIELD OF TRANSPLANTOLOGY IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Kykot ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rich History ◽  
Independent Branch ◽  
Country Today

The article considers the issues of formation and development of the field of transplantology in Ukraine, scientists who discovered, developed, glorified this field in the country. It has been established that the field of transplantation is an important component of the sphere of health care, and is also a particularly important task of state activity in general, which is to ensure public relations in the field under study. It has been studied that transplantation as a method of treatment is shown in a large number of different diseases, it is often the only way to save lives, and its history is inextricably linked with the development of medicine as a whole. Ukrainian medical science has a rich history associated with the names of prominent scientists in the field of theoretical, clinical and preventive medicine of the past and present. The proposal to cover the history of transplantology as one of the branches of medical science, which is an independent branch of health care, and in general the general history of human culture, which considers the development of knowledge related to diseases, human treatment, preservation and promotion of health. and the task of the whole country today is to help the development of this industry for the sake of new lives saved, for the sake of the future.

Problems in Visulising and Validating History: A Discourse on Jaishree Misra’s Rani

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prof. Shubhra Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Central India ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnic Heterogeneity ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Indian History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
The Dead

History is neither about 'past' nor 'dead' in India. The past mingles with the present in a continuous confluence and the dead infuse life too often in today. This is because the ancient social, cultural, literary and historical traditions spanning several thousand years, sustain the present day India. It is therefore, natural that history is pulsating with life and verve. For this reason writers in all ages have turned to history for inspiration and to draw material for their themes. However, the linguistic and ethnic heterogeneity which comprises the complex socio-cultural fabric of India facilitates viewing the past from various angles. According to their perception and socio-cultural concerns, writers have painted Indian history in various hues in their fiction. The interrelationship of history and literature is intricate and deep rooted. Therefore, it is not surprising if different literary works sharing the same historical theme receive divergent reviews and responses of readers from different regions. It is difficult to define the parameters of historical fiction, and equally baffling to explain and predict the reception a particular work of historical fiction will have among readers, or that the author's vision will reach the readers in the same light as he perceived it. A reaction substantiating this argument is the row over and the subsequent banning of Jaishree Misra's novel Rani in the State of Uttar Pradesh in Central India few years back, whereas other works on the same historical personality have been immensely popular.

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