scholarly journals Public health priority setting: A case for priority to the worse off in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sindre August Horn ◽  
Mathias Barra ◽  
Ole Frithjof Norheim ◽  
Carl Tollef Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Public Health Priority ◽  
Health Priority ◽  
Vaccine Distribution

In Norway, priority for health interventions is assigned on the basis of three official criteria: health benefit, resources, and severity. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have mainly happened through intersectoral public health efforts such as lockdowns, quarantines, information campaigns, social distancing and, more recently, vaccine distribution. The aim of this article is to evaluate potential priority setting criteria for public health interventions. We argue in favour of the following three criteria for public health priority setting: benefit, resources and improving the well-being of the worse off. We argue that benefits and priority to the worse off may reasonably be understood in terms of individual well-being, rather than only health, for public health priority setting. We argue that lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic support our conclusions. Keywords: COVID-19, Prioritarianism, Priority Setting, Public Health, Severity

Environmental Health in Latin American Countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvao ◽  
Volney Câmara ◽  
Daniel Buss
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Health And Well Being

The relationship between environment and health is part of the history of medicine and has always been important to any study of human health and to public-health interventions. In Latin America many health improvements are related to environmental interventions, such as the provision of better water and sanitation services. Latin America’s development, industrialization, and sweeping urbanization have brought many improvements to the well-being of its populations; they have also inaugurated new societies, with new patterns of consumption. The region’s basic environmental-health interventions have needed to be updated and upgraded to include disciplines such as toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental engineering, and many others. Multidisciplinary and inter-sector approaches are paramount to understanding new profiles of health and well-being, and to promoting effective public-health interventions. The new social, economic, labor, and consumption aspects of modern Latin American society have become more and more relevant to understanding the complex interactions in the region’s social, biological, and physical environment, which are essential to explaining some of the emerging and re-emerging public-health problems. Environmental health, as concept and as intervention, is simple and easily understood, but no longer sufficient to achieve the levels of health and well-being expected and required by these new realities. Many global changes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and mass migrations has been identified as main cause of ill health and are at the center of the sustainable development challenges in general, and many are critical and specific public health. To face this development, other frameworks have emerged, such as planetary health and environmental and social determinants of health. Public health remains central to some, such as the improved environmental-health agenda, while others assign public health a relative position in a variety of overarching frameworks.

scholarly journals Individual differences in emotional intelligence skills of people with visual impairment and loneliness amid the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 026461962110138
Author(s):  
Hyung Nam Kim ◽  
Sam Jotham Sutharson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Mood Scale

In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, public health interventions such as social distancing and stay-at-home orders have widely been implemented, which is anticipated to contribute to reducing the spread of COVID-19. On the contrary, there is a concern that the public health interventions may increase the level of loneliness. Loneliness and social isolation are public health risks, closely associated with serious medical conditions. As COVID-19 is new to us today, little is known about emotional well-being among people with visual impairment during the COVID-19 pandemic. To address the knowledge gap, this study conducted phone interviews with a convenience sample of 31 people with visual impairment. The interview incorporated the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Loneliness Scale (version 3) and the trait meta-mood scale (TMMS) to measure loneliness and emotional intelligence skills, respectively. This study found that people with visual impairment were vulnerable to the feeling of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic and showed individual differences in emotional intelligence skills by different degrees of loneliness. Researchers and health professionals should consider offering adequate coping strategies to those with visual impairment amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community Views and Public Health Priority Setting

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Earle-Richardson ◽  
Melissa Scribani ◽  
Lynae Wyckoff ◽  
David Strogatz ◽  
John May ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Public Health Priority ◽  
Health Priority

Priorities and ethics in health care

2013 ◽  
pp. 12-27
Author(s):  
Sian M. Griffiths ◽  
Robyn Martin ◽  
Don Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Health Ethics ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Role Ethics

This chapter aims to help you understand the language of ethics and the role ethics plays in public health, recognize ways in which public health ethics differ from bioethics, understand the principles of priority-setting within a constrained budget, appreciate how ethics should underpin public health interventions, and appreciate the importance of ethics-based public health policy-making.

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