scholarly journals The implementation of policies and the impact of handling Covid-19 originating from the World Health Organization's Point of View

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Pham Hoang

The purpose of this article is to describe the capacity and role of WHO in dealing with the spread of COVID-19 and to discuss in-depth articles at the stages of policy implementation that specifically discuss the WHO protocol that is applied in dealing with the spread of Covid-19. The implementation of the policy to handle the spread of COVID-19 considers various aspects not only health but also the economic and social impacts resulting from government decision making. In addition, response measures are implemented through the Acceleration of COVID-19 Handling task which is part of the formation of structures, structure is one of the aspects that are considered in Edward III's implementation theory besides communication, resources and disposition because the presence of a structure helps implement policies has a significant effect. on policy implementation. The support of all elements of the government, the private sector in compliance with government and WHO instructions, especially regarding social distancing and physical distancing, will have a big impact in preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Author(s):  
Oluwasegun Micheal Ibrahim ◽  
Damilola Daniel Ekundayo

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, to be a pandemic. Since the declaration, Nigeria economy has been greatly impacted thus resulting in a recession. This paper considers a couple of misconceptions among Nigerian people in the COVID-19 pandemic era thereby causing the spread of the novel virus and hence making the situation difficult for the government to handle. In particular, we discuss the first and second waves of the pandemic as it affects the Nigerian people. The impact of the pandemic on animals and the role of mathematical epidemiologists in combatting the spread is discussed herein. We give some recommendations that could be adopted by the government and the good people of Nigeria to reduce the further spread of the virus.


Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1700
Author(s):  
Melissa Chalada ◽  
Charmaine A. Ramlogan-Steel ◽  
Bijay P. Dhungel ◽  
Christopher J. Layton ◽  
Jason C. Steel

Uveal melanoma (UM) is currently classified by the World Health Organisation as a melanoma caused by risk factors other than cumulative solar damage. However, factors relating to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) susceptibility such as light-coloured skin and eyes, propensity to burn, and proximity to the equator, frequently correlate with higher risk of UM. These risk factors echo those of the far more common cutaneous melanoma (CM), which is widely accepted to be caused by excessive UVR exposure, suggesting a role of UVR in the development and progression of a proportion of UM. Indeed, this could mean that countries, such as Australia, with high UVR exposure and the highest incidences of CM would represent a similarly high incidence of UM if UVR exposure is truly involved. Most cases of UM lack the typical genetic mutations that are related to UVR damage, although recent evidence in a small minority of cases has shown otherwise. This review therefore reassesses statistical, environmental, anatomical, and physiological evidence for and against the role of UVR in the aetiology of UM.


2021 ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
Tatyana Leonidovna Musatova

The article analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic crisis on the foreign policy and diplomacy of states, including economic diplomacy. ED is interpreted as a multi-sided multi-faceted activity, an integral part of foreign policy aimed at protecting the national interests and economic security of the country. Given the interdepartmental nature of the ED, the presence of numerous actors and agents, not only state, but also public and business structures, political and foreign economic coordination on the part of the Foreign Ministries is of great importance, and this role of foreign policy departments is increasing during the pandemic crisis. The activity of the ED of Russia in 2020 was generally successful, among the main results: active participation of diplomats in the anti-epidemic work of the Government of the Russian Federation, including export flights, provision of emergency assistance by compatriots abroad, assistance to foreign countries; measures to promote the Russian vaccine in the world, establish its production abroad, and thus win new world markets for medicines; settlement of the pricing crisis on the world oil market with the leading role of Russia and Saudi Arabia; adjustment of double taxation agreements with a number of foreign countries, taking into account the domestic economic needs of the country; the growing experience of BRICS, this interstate association, which did not know the crisis, including its fight against epidemiological diseases, during the period of Russia’s presidency in the BRICS; further steps to deepen integration within the EAEU; Russia’s success in the eastern direction of foreign policy, in the development of trade exchanges and epidemiological cooperation with the ASEAN and APEC states. The new world crisis has become a catalyst for the convergence of ED methods with scientific and public diplomacy, with other diplomatic cultures that can be combined under the general name of civil diplomacy. Such a separation is required to protect the legacy of professional diplomacy, the popularity and use of which methods is growing significantly. ED, as an integral part of official diplomacy, is presented as a mediator between classical and civil diplomacy. It provides civil society with an example of the more rigorous, pragmatic, resultsoriented work that the current pandemic crisis requires.


Author(s):  
Татьяна Черкашина ◽  
Tatiana Cherkashina ◽  
Н. Новикова ◽  
N. Novikova ◽  
О. Трубина ◽  
...  

The article considers the conceptualization of the world from the point of view of its methodological paradigm assessment in the context of the globalizing world. A retrospective analysis of the relationship between language and human speech activity is given. The authors explain the role of language as a socio-cultural phenomenon in the formation of worldview systems that develop in the consciousness with the help of minimal units of human experience in their ideal meaningful representation in special concepts, which allows the individual to think within the boundaries of a certain linguistic picture of the world. Analyzes the problems of the functioning of communicative norms with regard to the hierarchy of the spiritual representations of the world. The article attempts to consider the impact of the “blurring” of the information boundaries of the globalizing world on the cognitive abilities of the individual in the nomination, qualification of the subject, phenomenon, process.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniyar Yergesh ◽  
Shirali Kadyrov ◽  
Hayot Saydaliev ◽  
Alibek Orynbassar

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2), the cause of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), within months of emergence from Wuhan, China, has rapidly spread, exacting a devastating human toll across around the world reaching the pandemic stage at the the beginning of March 2020. Thus, COVID-19s daily increasing cases and deaths have led to worldwide lockdown, quarantine and some restrictions. Covid-19 epidemic in Italy started as a small wave of 2 infected cases on January 31. It was followed by a bigger wave mainly from local transmissions reported in 6387 cases on March 8. It caused the government to impose a lockdown on 8 March to the whole country as a way to suppress the pandemic. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the lockdown and awareness dynamics on infection in Italy over the period of January 31 to July 17 and how the impact varies across different lockdown scenarios in both periods before and after implementation of the lockdown policy. The findings SEIR reveal that implementation lockdown has minimised the social distancing flattening the curve. The infections associated with COVID-19 decreases with quarantine initially then easing lockdown will not cause further increasing transmission until a certain period which is explained by public high awareness. Completely removing lockdown may lead to sharp transmission second wave. Policy implementation and limitation of the study were evaluated at the end of the paper. Keywords COVID-19 - Lockdown - Epidemic model - SEIR - Awareness - Dynamical systems.


Author(s):  
Beata Gavurova ◽  
Peter Toth

Environmental health is among the priority areas of public health, and the current professional communities are intensively engaged with it. The main objective of the study is to quantify regional disparities of preventable mortality in Slovakia and to study the extent of the influence of selected environmental factors on changes in the development of its values. A cross-sectional linear regression model is used to quantify effects of environmental factors on the preventable mortality. Also, cluster analysis is used to identify regions with similar levels of air pollution. Environmental factors were selected based on the study of the World Health Organization. From the point of view of the influence of environmental factors on preventable mortality in the case of men, statistically significant connection to sewerage, SO2 production, and production of particulate matter was demonstrated. In the case of women, equally important factors showed connection to sewerage and SO2. The results of this study point to significant regional disparities in preventable mortality and a different degree of impact of environmental factors. Preventable mortality is above the Slovak average in most of the least-developed districts. Even in this group, there are significant differences.


Author(s):  
Arati Raut ◽  
Ruchira Ankar ◽  
Sheetal Sakharkar

COVID-19 was proven to be a pandemic in early 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). At present, 213 countries have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the history of global pandemics, COVID-19 has had a major impact on society as it has killed humans, spread human suffering and uprooted the lives of the people. Across the globe, there are 18,705,096 confirmed cases, 11,922,692 recovered cases, 704,385 deaths, and 6,078,019 active cases as of, 5 August 2020. It has affected the world’s economic, social and political status. Poor people belonging to the lower strata of society face more difficulties during pandemics. They are unable to secure their daily bread as well as other basic needs. The impact of COVID-19 on the poor and the role of society have been addressed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 654-671
Author(s):  
Siti Imalia Tanjung

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has caused people all over the world to panic. The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking proactive measures to prevent the spread of the virus, by directing countries around the world to take measures such as social distancing, physical distancing, quarantine, and regional restrictions or known as lock down which ultimately affects various sectors of life. . This research journal discusses the Impact of Covid-19 on International Political Economy Stability. This paper focuses on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic phenomenon, and various global problems in general, and positions the COVID-19 pandemic phenomenon from the point of view of international political economy studies as a study of International Relations. This writing uses a qualitative descriptive research method by using a literature study to systematically study the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the stability of the International Political Economy, in order to formulate future policies in combating the pandemic. After reviewing and analyzing some of the literature, it was concluded that the stability sector of the International Political Economy is the most vulnerable and threatened to the impact of COVID-19.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hanif Mohd Noor ◽  
Muhammad Aiman Abdull Rahim ◽  
Wan Abdul Rahman Wan Ibrisam Fikry ◽  
Aminudin Hehsan

The COVID-19 pandemic that struck, shocks the whole world, regardless of race or religion. The effects of a pandemic can be felt from a health, social and economic point of view. The impact clearly affects the growth of the world economy, especially in Malaysia. Despite the pandemic, we can see the assistance extended by the people of the world, especially the community in Malaysia to help those effected and affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Zakat institutions in Malaysia have also not missed out on their duty to help asnaf who need special assistance during this pandemic. So, in this study, the researcher will study in more depth the assistance provided and the channels used to help the zakat asnaf affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this study also aims to determine the impact of assistance given to asnaf on the country's economic growth during the pandemic. The methodology used is content analysis from studies on zakat and, data from zakat institutions. The results of the study showed a positive effect on the economy of the recipients with the assistance received by the asnaf from the zakat institution.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Narila Mutia Nasir ◽  
Ibnu Susanto Joyosemito ◽  
Baequni Boerman ◽  
Ismaniah Ismaniah

Abstract   The COVID-19 vaccination program in Indonesia that started on January 13, 2021 is expected to accelerate the herd immunity that will impact on reducing the infected cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) explained that vaccine performance can be measured through vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and impact. This community service activity aims to provide inputs for policy implementation on COVID-19 vaccination strategy to the government by conducting predictive analysis using a dynamic mathematical modeling to determine the effectiveness and impact of vaccination at the community level. Five types of vaccines were analyzed, namely AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Sinopharm and Sinovac. Two basic model scenarios of with and without the vaccination policy implementation were simulated. The model demonstrated that the policy noticeably reduces the number of COVID-19 cases. The main finding demonstrated by the model is that the effectiveness of the vaccine after it is immunized into the community is affected by its efficacy, but the efficacy of various vaccines type does not influence significantly to the vaccine impact on community. Thus, it is recommended that the government ensures the availability of any type of vaccines to accelerate the vaccination program and encourage community participation to be vaccinated to achieve the target goal. Furthermore, since the impact of vaccine on the community is not only determined by its efficacy, the government have to do persistent health education and drive community engagement to adhere with the COVID-19 health protocol.   Keywords: COVID-19, Dynamics Modeling, High Leverage Policy, Vaccine Effectiveness, Vaccine Impact   Abstrak   Program vaksinasi COVID-19 di Indonesia yang mulai dilaksanakan pada tanggal 13 Januari 2021 diharapkan dapat mempercepat terjadinya kekebalan kelompok (herd immunity) yang nantinya berdampak pada penurunan jumlah kasus yang terinfeksi. Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) memaparkan bahwa kinerja vaksin dapat dilihat dari tiga pengukuran yaitu melalui efikasi, efektivitas, dan dampak vaksin. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk memberikan masukan kepada pemerintah dalam mengimplementasikan strategi vaksinasi COVID-19 dengan menyediakan analisis prediksi menggunakan pemodelan matematika dinamis untuk mengetahui efektivitas dan dampak vaksinasi pada tingkat masyarakat. Lima jenis vaksin yang dianalisis adalah AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, Sinopharm dan Sinovac. Dua skenario dasar pemodelan yaitu dengan dan tanpa intervensi kebijakan vaksinasi disimulasikan. Hasil keluaran model menunjukkan kebijakan vaksinasi memberikan dampak dalam penurunan jumlah kasus COVID-19. Temuan utama yang didemonstrasikan oleh model adalah efektivitas vaksin setelah diimunisasikan ke masyarakat dipengaruhi oleh efikasinya, tetapi efikasi antar jenis vaksin tidak terlalu berpengaruh terhadap dampak vaksin di masyarakat. Oleh karena itu disarankan agar pemerintah menjamin ketersediaan vaksin apa pun jenisnya untuk mengakselerasi proses vaksinasi ke masyarakat dan mendorong partisipasi masyarakat untuk divaksin sehingga target yang sudah ditetapkan tercapai. Selanjutnya, mengingat bahwa dampak vaksin di masyarakat bukan hanya ditentukan oleh efikasinya, maka pemerintah harus terus melakukan upaya edukasi dan mendorong pelibatan masyarakat secara aktif untuk patuh menerapkan protokol kesehatan COVID-19.   Kata kunci: COVID-19, Pemodelan Dinamis, Kebijakan Berpengaruh Tinggi, Efektivitas Vaksin, Dampak Vaksin


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