Public Awareness on Prevention Behavior of Coronavirus Disease-19 at North Sulawesi Indonesia

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus diseases (COVID)-19 outbreak around the world has prompted the government to urge its citizens to take precautionary measures to minimize the incidence of COVID-19, which has been continued to attack the world, including Indonesia. The pandemic has led to a massive global public health campaign to slow the spread of the virus by increasing hand washing, reducing face touching, wearing masks in public, and physical distancing. AIM: This study aims to analyze the sociodemographic relationship of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of preventing COVID-19. METHOD: This study was an analytic survey with a cross-sectional study design, conducted for 3 months with number of samples 356 people spared across four districts and cities in North Sulawesi Province. There are two types of data collection those are through Google forms and face to face questions. The studied variables are sociodemography as independent variables and knowledge, attitude, and behavior of COVID-19 prevention. Data were analyzed with Chi-square test. RESULTS: The result of study, only gender has a relationship toward people’s attitudes toward COVID-19 prevention with p = 0.046; while most of the variables, namely, age (0.333), education (0.085), occupation (0.152), and income (0.966), did not have a significant relationship with attitudes toward the prevention of COVID-19. Gender has a relationship toward people’s attitudes toward COVID-19 prevention with p = 0.046; while most of the variables, namely, age (0.333), education (0.085), occupation (0.152), and income (0.966), did not have a significant relationship with attitudes toward the prevention of COVID-19. Most of the variables had a significant relationship with prevention measures, including age (0.008), education (0.009), and occupation (0.038); and only the gender variable (0.895) and monthly income (0.077) had no statistical relationship. CONCLUSION: It is important for the government and society to take a role by becoming more concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic through wise steps to prevent and protect public health using all available resources.

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To stop or not to stop ‘culture’: determining the essential behavior of the government, church and public in fighting against COVID-19

Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/pubmed/fdab026 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dalmacito A Cordero

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Contributory Factor ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Health It ◽

Way Of Life ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

The Church

Abstract Culture is a way of life. A recent correspondence emphasizes that it is a contributory factor in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, and this must be considered by each government around the world. However, I argue that various elements in culture do not need to stop or else it will create public outrage. I therefore propose a win–win solution for both parties with the inclusion of the church that can serve as a framework for the sake of public health. It is primarily based on a kind of behavior that is needed to be embodied by the involved groups—‘supportive’ government, ‘creative’ church and an ‘adaptive’ public. These essential behaviors of all groups are possible to embody for a successful implementation of public health.

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OBESITY IN SARS-COV-2 INFECTION: LITERATURE REVIEW

10.36106/2709661 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 19-23

Author(s):

Donizete Tavares Da Silva ◽

Priscila De Sousa Barros Lima ◽

Renato Sampaio Mello Neto ◽

Gustavo Magalhães Valente ◽

Débora Dias Cabral ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ◽

Gastrointestinal Tract ◽

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽

Distress Syndrome ◽

Circulatory System ◽

World Health ◽

Global Public Health ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (1) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and a threat to global public health (2). The virus mainly affects the lungs and can cause acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In addition, coronavirus 2 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARSCOV2) also has devastating effects on other important organs, including the circulatory system, brain, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and liver

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An Uncertain Risk: The World Health Organization's Account of H1N1

Science in Context ◽

10.1017/s0269889714000167 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 511-529 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sudeepa Abeysinghe

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Influenza Pandemic ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

H1n1 Influenza ◽

World Health ◽

Scientific Uncertainty ◽

Global Public Health ◽

The World ◽

Public Risk ◽

Health Organization

ArgumentScientific uncertainty is fundamental to the management of contemporary global risks. In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the start of the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic. This declaration signified the risk posed by the spread of the H1N1 virus, and in turn precipitated a range of actions by global public health actors. This article analyzes the WHO's public representation of risk and examines the centrality of scientific uncertainty in the case of H1N1. It argues that the WHO's risk narrative reflected the context of scientific uncertainty in which it was working. The WHO argued that it was attempting to remain faithful to the scientific evidence, and the uncertain nature of the threat. However, as a result, the WHO's public risk narrative was neither consistent nor socially robust, leading to the eventual contestation of the WHO's position by other global public health actors, most notably the Council of Europe. This illustrates both the significance of scientific uncertainty in the investigation of risk, and the difficulty for risk managing institutions in effectively acting in the face of this uncertainty.

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Four pandemics: lessons learned, lessons lost

10.22514/sv.2020.16.0096 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

World Health ◽

Swine Flu ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Health Crisis ◽

The World ◽

Spanish Flu ◽

Future Events ◽

Health Organization

In the past 100 years, the world has faced four distinctly different pandemics: the Spanish flu of 1918-1919, the SARS pandemic of 2003, the H1N1 or “swine flu” pandemic of 2012, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Each public health crisis exposed specific systemic shortfalls and provided public health lessons for future events. The Spanish flu revealed a nursing shortage and led to a great appreciation of nursing as a profession. SARS showed the importance of having frontline clinicians be able to work with regulators and those producing guidelines. H1N1 raised questions about the nature of a global organization such as the World Health Organization in terms of the benefits and potential disadvantages of leading the fight against a long-term global public health threat. In the era of COVID-19, it seems apparent that we are learning about both the blessing and curse of social media.

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Influencing international policy

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice ◽

10.1093/med/9780198800125.003.0032 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 348-357

Author(s):

Tim Lang ◽

Martin Caraher

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Policy Action ◽

Double Burden ◽

International Policy ◽

International Policies ◽

Health Practitioners ◽

The World ◽

Public Health Practitioners

This chapter will help you understand: the relationships between international policy and policy action at multiple levels; why public health practitioners should build an international dimension into their work; how to influence and advance public health internationally, even through local action. The chapter uses examples from the world of food and health policy (on which the authors work) to illustrate the structures and processes of engagement you may encounter. In the policy worlds of both global public health and food, there is a mix of improvement and threats, inequalities alongside progress, fragmentation, and coherence. Similar trends in the global South and developed countries may have underlying drivers at work, resulting in the double burden of disease. It is preferable to ensure that international policies tackle rather than ignore those determinants.

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COVID-19: Avoiding a second tragedy in a tuberculosis burdened country

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease ◽

10.4081/monaldi.2020.1338 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 90 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Siddharth Raj Yadav ◽

Rohit Kumar ◽

Nitesh Gupta ◽

Pranav Ish ◽

Shibdas Chakrabarti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽

The Elderly ◽

World Health Organisation ◽

Public Health Emergency ◽

World Health ◽

Special Population ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Immunodeficiency Virus ◽

The World

To the EditorNovel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first notified in December 2019 from Wuhan, China. Now, it has spread rapidly and has been declared a pandemic affecting over 200 countries with widespread morbidity and mortality. It has been postulated that the most vulnerable population are the elderly, people living in crowded areas, children and immune-compromised individuals, such as people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The correlation of tuberculosis (TB), HIV and malnutrition are well documented and hence, people with tuberculosis should be considered as special population in this pandemic. TB is an ancient disease among humans recorded as far back as seventy thousand years which was declared a global public health emergency in 1993 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). India has the highest TB burden in the world.

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Participation in the World Health Organization

International Organizations Law Review ◽

10.1163/15723747-01602003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 261-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Steven A. Solomon ◽

Claudia Nannini

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Global Health ◽

World Health Organization ◽

Regional Level ◽

World Health ◽

Global Public Health ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

Collaborative Efforts

Participation in the World Health Organization (WHO) is a multifaceted matter and should be understood as not only referring to the governance of WHO, but also to its scientific and technical work as well as its collaborative efforts towards advancing global public health more generally. The article is concerned, in particular, with the legal and political framework surrounding attendance and participation of states and various entities in the governing bodies of the Organization, at the global and regional level. It shows that participation in the governance of WHO is still today a domain reserved to the determination of its Member States. At the same time, solutions have been found and continued efforts are necessary to take into account geopolitical considerations and to ensure a meaningful and inclusive participation of all relevant actors in global health discussions.

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The Contribution of Public Health Investments to the Economic Growth of Cameroon

International Journal of Social Sciences and Management ◽

10.3126/ijssm.v4i1.16323 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 12-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ismaila Amadu ◽

Ngoe Fritz Eseokwea ◽

Marcel Ngambi

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Economic Growth ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Health Spending ◽

World Health ◽

Quality Health Care ◽

Health Investments ◽

The World ◽

The Government

The goal of this paper is to determine the contribution of public health investments to the economic growth of Cameroon. The study used the human capital model of Lucas (1988) within the framework of endogenous growth theories. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was employed in the estimations procedure using the World Development Indicators (WDI, 2013) data from the World Bank over the period spanning from 1988 to 2013.The findings show that government health expenditures contribute to economic growth only in the long run. From our results, we recommend that: first, the government should increase health spending to 10 or 15 percent of its GDP as initially suggested by the African Union and the World Health Organization respectively; second, government should enhance the provision of health care services by the private sector by putting in place incitation measures; third, competitive awards should be granted to those health units that render quality health care services.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 4, Issue-1: 12-21

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Coronavirus Pandemic: a major public health crisis for the developed and developing world

The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries ◽

10.3855/jidc.12995 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (03) ◽

pp. 366-369

Author(s):

Rooh Ullah ◽

Muhammad Suleman Rana ◽

Mehmood Qadir ◽

Muhammad Usman ◽

Niaz Ahmed

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽

Viral Infection ◽

The Novel ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Public Health Crisis ◽

The World ◽

Novel Coronavirus ◽

Day By Day

Pandemic of novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in China is now become global public health crisis. At present 87.64% of the world is infected by this deadly illness. The risk from this epidemic depends on the nature of the virus, including how well it transmits from person to person, and the complications resulting from this current illness. The novel coronavirus has killed thousands of people in China and other countries as well; its rate of mortality is increasing day by day. There is an urgent need to control the virus by developing vaccine or any other antiviral drugs to save the world from this deadly viral infection.

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Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Towards COVID-19 among Medical Students in International Islamic University Malaysia: An Online Cross-Sectional Study

IIUM Medical Journal Malaysia ◽

10.31436/imjm.v20i2.1686 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ikhlas Solehah Abd Rahim ◽

Muhammad Badrul Nizam Roslan ◽

Nur Najihah Mohamad Zaini ◽

Nur Syazwani Kasim ◽

Muhammad Izz Hilmi Mohd Yazid ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Standard Operating Procedure ◽

Risk Groups ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Attitudes And Practices ◽

The Government ◽

Knowledge Attitudes And Practices

INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major impact to global public health including one of the high risk groups which is the medical students. This study was intended to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19 among medical students in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). MATERIAL AND METHOD: An online cross-sectional study was conducted among 438 medical students of IIUM from 6th July 2020 to 9th July 2020. KAP towards COVID-19 was measured using a structured Malay and English version questionnaire consisting of 13 items on knowledge, 3 items on attitudes and 3 items on practices. RESULTS: The average correct response rate on knowledge was 85.4%. Only 12.1% of the students had correct knowledge on all items, and 1 in every 4 and 5 students had misconceptions on the clinical features and transmission of COVID-19. In term of attitudes towards COVID-19, majority of the respondents believed that COVID-19 would be effectively controlled (85%) and had faith that Malaysia could overcome the war against COVID-19 (99%). Most of the respondents practiced good towards COVID-19 in avoiding crowded places (90%), wearing face masks (95%) and practicing hand hygiene (91.6%). CONCLUSION: Although the results are positive towards KAP, only 1 in every 10 students responded correctly to all knowledge questions, and few proportions had misconceptions on the disease and did not maintain adequate practices. Policies aimed at appropriate health promotion activities may ensure empowering the medical students with adequate knowledge on all aspects of COVID-19, and practice properly following the standard operating procedure implemented by the government.

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