scholarly journals Waves of mental health Demands during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Jorge Sant´Ana Honorato ◽  
André Luiz Machado das Neves ◽  
Munique Therense ◽  
Gizelly de Carvalho Martins ◽  
Vivian Silva Lima Marangoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Demands ◽  
To Come

Dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic is playing a significant role in public health policies around the world. Mental health is one. Either in supporting the maintenance of isolation or dealing with demands, which may come from the general population and health professionals. This work presents a compilation of data obtained by clinical psychologists during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. Through searches on social media with #Covid19 and #MentalHealth and the exchange of information on networks of professionals, it was possible to compile and group the main psychological symptoms presented during isolation. Information was clustered according to the period it appeared, in order to guide future situations. Moreover, to prepare a group of clinical psychologists to provide online assistance. Prevention must be the key to deal with the mental health catastrophe that there is to come.

scholarly journals Vietnamese Public Health Practices in the Advent of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Developing Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Author(s):  
Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) presents a great challenge to developing countries with limited access to public health measures in grassroots communities. The World Health Organization lauded the Vietnamese government for its proactive and steady investment in health facilities that mitigate the risk of the infectious disease in Vietnam. This short communication presents cases that could benchmark public health policies in developing countries.

scholarly journals Side-Effects of Public Health Policies Against COVID-19: The Story of an Over-Reaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edouard Lansiaux ◽  
Noe Tchagaspanian ◽  
Juliette Arnaud ◽  
Pierre Durand ◽  
Mark Changizi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
Western World ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World

Let us all take a moment to talk, once again, about this new coronavirus pandemic that the world has been facing since November 2019 and about its global response. After a short period marked by the pandemic underestimation risk by most governments, the Western world went nuts and overreacted, most probably so as not to be accused of inaction. In many cases, the overall benefits of the chosen policies were not sufficiently questioned, which resulted in many side effects on global health .The medical motto “primum non nocere”, a moral principle everyone should at least consider following, was evidently not taken into account. It has been overlooked, and the virus has become an obsession, to the extent that nearly everything else, even the most valuable things in life, is still now under appreciated if not simply ignored. This review highlighted facts against this simplistic, one-dimensional view.

Positive approaches to community mental health services: A view of the Independent Reference Group

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Don Brand
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Set Up

THE INDEPENDENT REFERENCE GROUP, set up to advise ministers on public health policies and service developments, has produced a summary of its findings. This paper presents the group's main views and priorities for action.

scholarly journals The Role of a Medicalized Discourse in the Global Activities of the World Health Organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Marta Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tobacco Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

This article presents selected results of a research project entitled Medicalization strategies of the World Health Organization1 in which the author analyzed and described three WHO policies characterized by a medicalizing approach. These three policies were compared with each other in terms of their conceptual (narrative) and institutional (practical) levels of medicalization and their effects. In order to better understand the role of a medicalized discourse in the global activities of the WHO, these three cases were also compared to one non-medicalizing policy. The aim of this article is twofold: firstly, to present two cases analyzed as part of the project, namely, the tobacco policy (a ‘medicalized’ one) and the ageing policy (a ‘non-medicalized’ one) and secondly, to consider the possible influence of WHO discourse on tobacco and ageing on public health policies in the European Union.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies as a Path to Healthy Cities—The Case Study of LMA, Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Louro ◽  
Nuno Marques da Costa ◽  
Eduarda Marques da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Healthy Cities ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sustainable Urban Mobility

Sustainable development has become the basis of several worldwide policies over the last few decades, and its role will continue to shape policies for decades to come, especially those that are focused on urban mobility. At the same time, urban mobility is included in the framework of the Healthy Cities movement. In this context, using the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), Portugal, as the study area, this article intends to answer the following research question: are sustainable urban mobility policies contributing to healthy cities? Urban mobility planning and public health instruments were compared with the discourses and practices of those responsible for the implementation of urban mobility policies and Healthy Cities projects. The results reveal that a large number of responses proposed in the mobility planning instruments are, to some extent, related to the principles of healthy cities. Also, while municipal agents tend not to consider the inclusion of those principles, they instead incorporate the concepts of sustainable development. Nevertheless, we found that both approaches overlap the policy directions of healthy cities. On the other hand, public health policies and Healthy Cities projects presented a scarce number of references to its interventions in the urban mobility domain and mainly focused on the promotion of soft modes. It is concluded that, in the case of the observed municipalities of the LMA, the healthy cities framework is greatly benefited by the inclusion of sustainable development principles in all policies, especially those for urban mobility.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 genomic monitoring in the São Paulo State unveils new sublineages of the AY.43 strain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Ranieri J. Lima ◽  
Gabriela Ribeiro ◽  
Vincent Louis Viala ◽  
Loyze Paola Oliveira Lima ◽  
Antonio Jorge Martins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Phylogenetic Tree ◽  
Viral Fitness ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
The World ◽  
Continuous Description ◽  
Potential Impact

Delta VOC is highly diverse and more than 120 sublineages have been identified in Pango lineages with the continuous description of emerging ones. Brazil is now one of the most vaccinated countries against SARS-CoV-2 in the world which can enhance the emergence of viral mutations related to improved viral fitness. In this study, we identified two novel sublineages of the AY.43 lineage which were classified as AY.43.1 and AY.43.2 as observed on the specific clustering on the obtained phylogenetic tree. The novel sublineages were defined by the following characteristic nonsynonymous mutations ORF1ab:A4133V and ORF3a:T14I for AY.43.1 and ORF1ab:G1155C for AY.43.2. The majority of the analyzed sequences of both lineages were Brazilian, which shows that probably these two emerging sublineages have Brazilian origin. It is still unknown how these two sublineages are disseminated in S&atildeo Paulo State and Brazil and their potential impact on the ongoing vaccination process. However, the performed study reinforces the importance of the SARS-CoV-2 genome monitoring for timely identification of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants which can impact the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and public health policies

Are We Living Longer and Healthier?

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1645-1658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zheng ◽  
Karen Siu Lan Cheung ◽  
Paul S. F. Yip
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Marked Improvement ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Disease Free

Objective: To examine whether we live healthier as we live longer in Hong Kong, which has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. Methods: Sullivan’s method was used to evaluate the chronic disease–free life expectancy (CDFLE), life expectancy in good self-perceived health (GPHLE), and impairment-free life expectancy (IFLE) among population aged 50 years and older in Hong Kong in 2007–2016. Results: In spite of the marked improvement in life expectancy in Hong Kong, the increase in GPHLE was much smaller, while CDFLE and IFLE even declined for both genders. The situation was more severe among older population. Discussion: People in Hong Kong live longer but with worsening health. The expansion of chronic diseases, self-perceived poor health, and impairments among older adults calls for more fiscal investments, government attention, and public health policies.

scholarly journals Utilizando Análise de Sentimentos e SVM na Classificação de Tweets Depressivos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Andres Carmona Cortes ◽  
Wesley Eduardo de Oliveira Melo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Naive Bayes ◽  
Naïve Bayes ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Bayes Algorithm

The number of depression cases has grown worldwide. The WorldHealth Organization estimates that 5.8% of the Brazilian populationalready present depression symptoms. In the world, 4.8% ofthe entire population has presented some symptoms. These dataare alarming because they represent about 12 million people onlyin Brazil and 368 million worldwide. Therefore, it is essential tobuild applications that adequately identify the population’s feelingsabout depression to drive public health policies. Appropriate policiescan save money on public health and keep people active. Thus,this work investigates how to apply machine learning in classifyingdepression posts on Tweeter. The data were extracted from thesocial media network, reaching a total of 31.177 tweets classified asdepressive and non-depressive. The application was implementedin Python with Pandas and SciKit Learning. Results have shownthat SVM overcomes the Naive Bayes algorithm and can reach anaccuracy of 94%, precision of 91%, a recall of 91%, and an F1 Scoreof 91%.

scholarly journals Living, collective and political organisms for construction of the attributes of the National Oral Health Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Fávero BULGARELLI
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Unified Health System ◽  
Oral Health Policy

ABSTRACT The last few decades have witnessed a growth in the value of dentists as health professionals as they act as protagonists in the construction of public health policies. This change comes from powerful and representative dentists in the Unified Health System (acronym in Portuguese is SUS). This short theoretical essay aims to bring the reader closer to the attributes necessary for the building of a social policy and draws a parallel with the National Oral Health Policy (acronym in Portuguese is PNSB). Issues such as context-oriented health policy and the National Oral Health Policy associated with the attributes of a social policy are presented in a narrative and reflective manner. In this process, the exercise of citizenship is demonstrated, emphasizing the importance of the collective role and policy of dentist surgeons in the stages of health policies in Brazil

scholarly journals Mental Health and COVID - 19: An Action Plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Simonetti ◽  
Carmela Iosco ◽  
Gianfranco Taruschio
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Health Area ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Since January, the disease caused by the Sars Cov-2 virus has spread and following pandemic. In a few months, the virus is seriously affecting the health systems of the various countries of the world and placing people in difficult psychological conditions. Few scientific resources on mental health have been published but still no one has proposed an action plan to cope the future psychological problems.This manuscript provides a plan to easily frame the priorities of mental health area related to COVID-19 to be taken into consideration which should be disseminated and that should be known by all health professionals and also by the major administrators of public health.

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