scholarly journals Role of Medicinal plants in Covid-19 pandemic: An Ayurveda perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-218
Author(s):  
Vivek M Chaudhari ◽  
Kokate K K
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Crisis Situation ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Epidemic Diseases

The corona virus Covid-19 pandemic is the defining ongoing global health crisis situation. In Ayurveda communicable and epidemic diseases are described as Aupasargika Rogas -infectious or contagious and Janopadhvansa- pandemics respectively. The aim of this study is to review medicinal plants acting on Pranavaha Srotas and Rasavaha Srotas along with their action on signs and symptoms correlated with Covid 19. Extensive compilation and tabulation of medicinal plants is done by literary search of Brihat-trayee and their pharmacological actions from research databases. A total of 26 different medicinal plants have been enlisted. Analysis of these plants has been made as per Rasa, Anurasa, Vipaka, Veerya, Gunas and Karmas. Pharmacological actions are analyzed. Review reveals huge potential of many medicinal plants which can be used in this Covid-19 pandemic situation. This review evaluated the importance of medicinal plants described in Ayurveda literatures which can be used in the management and prevention of Covid-19.

scholarly journals Role of Presenilin in Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaarika Sarasija ◽  
Kenneth R. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Mitochondrial Function ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Calcium Dysregulation ◽  
Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Genes Encoding

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are poised to become a global health crisis, and therefore understanding the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis is critical for the development of therapeutic strategies. Mutations in genes encoding presenilin occur in most familial Alzheimer’s disease but the role of PSEN in AD is not fully understood. In this review, the potential modes of pathogenesis of AD are discussed, focusing on calcium homeostasis and mitochondrial function. Moreover, research using Caenorhabditis elegans to explore the effects of calcium dysregulation due to presenilin mutations on mitochondrial function, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration is explored.

The Better-Than-Average Effect in the Era of COVID-19: Cognitive Bias in the Age of Pandemic and its Relationship to Vaccination Hesitancy (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kulesza ◽  
Dariusz Dolinski ◽  
Paweł Muniak ◽  
Daisy Winner ◽  
Kamil Izydorczak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Scale Behavior ◽  
Vaccination Hesitancy ◽  
Better Than

BACKGROUND The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented global health crisis. Because large-scale behavior change has been critical to slowing the spread of the virus, understanding the mechanisms behind people’s decisions and behaviors to follow (or not) public health recommendations, is essential. OBJECTIVE In order to investigate one possible mechanism, we investigated the presence of the better-than-average effect. METHODS in 3066 individuals across Poland, Iran, and Kazakhstan. RESULTS Participants demonstrated clear the BTAE in all three countries. Furthermore, we found that the level of BTAE was a predictor of COVID-19 vaccination (declarative) claims. CONCLUSIONS These findings contribute to the growing literature on the role of cognitive biases on health behaviors, particularly during global health emergencies. We provide recommendations for public health communicators on how to address this bias to help ensure people adopt the behaviors that are critical to combatting the virus.

Role of Social Media in COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wajahat Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Spread Rate ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Deep Impact ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Physical Threat ◽  
Media Channels

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has produced a global health crisis that has had a deep impact on the way we perceive our world and everyday lives. Not only the spread rate of contagion and patterns of transmission endangered our sense of security, but the safety measures put in place to contain the spread of the virus also require social distancing by refraining from doing what is inherently human, which is to find comfort in the company of others. Within this context of physical threat, social and physical distancing, the role of the different mass media channels and social media in lives on individual, social and societal levels cannot be underestimated. 

‘Corralling the Virus’: Migratory Sexualities and the ‘Spread of AIDS’ in the US Media

10.1068/d359 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Raimondo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Response ◽  
Individual Family

In this paper I examine the emergence of a popular geography of AIDS in the US mass media in the 1980s, exploring the role of global mobility in the construction of AIDS as a national threat. Efforts to map the geography of the epidemic served to reinforce the illusion that the borders of the nation might effectively be defended against the incursions of HIV via the bodies of those marked as outside the proper citizenry. The representation of Africa as the ‘cradle of AIDS’, the images of crack houses in narratives about urban AIDS in the United States, and stories of White gay men ‘going home to die’ in the ‘heartland’ constructed a geography of danger linking race, sexuality, and ‘home’ that promised security for those within particular borders. Emphasizing the power of racialized maternal compassion as a model for the national response to AIDS, these stories described normative heterosexual domesticity as a means of fixing sexuality in place. This geography proposed that individual family units might reinforce national borders which seemed increasingly fluid in the context of global flows of populations, a construction that illustrates the intersection of space and sexuality in the representation of an emerging global health crisis and produces spatializations of danger that continue to shape the construction of ‘global AIDS’.

Role of Community-Based Organizations in the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-131
Author(s):  
Archana Choudhary ◽  
Bala Subramanian R.
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
New Models

Community-based organizations (CBOs) have played a vital role in containing the infections of the COVID-19 pandemic as well. They serve as a facilitator between communities, local health officials, and the entire administration by providing information about the feasibility and viability of proposed mitigation strategies and later help them to operationalize these strategies. This chapter discusses how CBOs should continually access the situation and modify their operations to carry forward their objectives in order to protect their staff and various stakeholders. It reflects on the way these CBOs have tackled these challenges and worked for the benefit of people. It discusses the new models and examples of success that have been shown by these organizations. This chapter is written on the basis of secondary data. It deliberates on the initiatives taken by the CBOs during and post-pandemic. It also discusses the opportunities for growth these organizations have during this global health crisis and the challenges they are facing for their survival during and after the pandemic.

scholarly journals How do we tackle the COVID-19 crisis? Mass media and psychological responses to the health crisis in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. A05
Author(s):  
María Álvarez-Rementería Álvarez ◽  
Gorka Roman Etxebarrieta ◽  
Maria Dosil Santamaria
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
People’S Perception ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

During global health crises, the mass media plays a key role in the construction of risk society. This paper analyses people's perception during the confinement in Spain regarding the role of mass media and its relationship with psychological responses and attitudes towards social control. Results from the survey (n=704) suggest that certain groups have been more affected by the messages distributed by the media, rendering them more vulnerable to suffering from negative psychological responses. The mass media interferes with the manner in which people psychologically deal with this crisis and the behaviour that results from their perception of risk.

scholarly journals Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 370 (6512) ◽  
pp. 66-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Bartels ◽  
Sebastiaan De Schepper ◽  
Soyon Hong
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Cross Talk ◽  
Adult Brain ◽  
Neuronal Function ◽  
Brain Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Early Biomarkers ◽  
Parkinson’S Diseases ◽  
The World

Dementia is a rapidly rising global health crisis that silently disables families and ends lives and livelihoods around the world. To date, however, no early biomarkers or effective therapies exist. It is now clear that brain microglia are more than mere bystanders or amyloid phagocytes; they can act as governors of neuronal function and homeostasis in the adult brain. Here, we highlight the fundamental role of microglia as tissue-resident macrophages in neuronal health. Then, we suggest how chronic impairment in microglia-neuron cross-talk may secure the permanence of the failure of synaptic and neuronal function and health in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Understanding how to assess and modulate microglia-neuron interactions critical for brain health will be key to developing effective therapies for dementia.

scholarly journals Thromboembolic disease in COVID-19 patients: A brief narrative review

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samhati Mondal ◽  
Ashley L. Quintili ◽  
Kunal Karamchandani ◽  
Somnath Bose
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Thrombosis ◽  
Multiorgan Failure ◽  
Thromboembolic Disease ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Cytokine Storm ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Organ Systems

Abstract Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV2/ Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2) infection has emerged as a global health crisis. Incidence of thromboembolic disease is reported to be high in SARS-CoV2 disease and is seen in a multitude of organ systems ranging from cutaneous thrombosis to pulmonary embolism, stroke or coronary thrombosis sometimes with catastrophic outcomes. Evidence points towards a key role of thromboembolism, hypercoagulability and over production of proinflammatory cytokines mimicking a “cytokine storm” which leads to multiorgan failure. This brief narrative review highlights the pathophysiology and risk factors of thromboembolic disease and provides a framework for management of anticoagulation based on the current evidence.

scholarly journals Misinformation and the Mindsponge mechanism of trust

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tam-Tri Le ◽  
Minh-Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Quan-Hoang Vuong
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Information Filtering ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Natural Energy

Misinformation is a serious issue, especially during the COVID-19 global health crisis. In this digital era, people are expected to process a huge amount of information every day. Based on the Mindsponge framework information processing, we explore the role of trust as a facilitator within the information filtering process, a natural energy-saving mechanism of how the human mind works. This mechanism can help explain how modern humans are prone to misinformation.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Disinfection Physical Methods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moez Guettari ◽  
Ahmed El Aferni
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Physical Methods ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Disinfection Methods ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Physical Type

Since 2019, the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic becomes the global health crisis. To fight the pandemic, several measures were adopted such as: Hygiene measure, massive test, social distancing, quarantine and distancing. Disinfection is an important operation in the fight against the spread of Corona virus pandemic. The disinfection methods are of chemical and physical type. In this work, we focused our interest to the physical methods. These methods are classified in three principal categories: irradiation techniques, heat treatment and mechanical techniques. All the different aspect of techniques are exposed in this chapter. The efficiency of the used techniques is also discussed.

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