scholarly journals New Understanding of Dental Public Health: A Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Vedanti Kitey ◽  
Kumar Gaurav Chhabra ◽  
Priyanka Paul Madhu ◽  
Amit Reche ◽  
Gunjan Hiware ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Dental Public Health ◽  
Digital Dentistry ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Therapeutic Services

Oral disorders are a most important public health issue in most of the developing countries, and their prevalence is on the rise. To enhance the population's oral wellbeing by providing preventive and therapeutic services is the main aim of dental public health (DPH). However, due to low requirement of capability and ability among DPH personnel, its accomplishment in India is being probed [1]. For many people, dental care has grown expensive, and a huge number of patients around the world are delaying or ignoring important dental procedures. in addition, the ageing of the worldwide populace, as well as the resulting growth in common and dental concern needs, raises worries about the long-term viability of healthcare organization. These changes underscore the critical requirement for a new dental care representation that is both sustainable and efficient [2]. In this regard, the favorable approach for transforming the scene of oral healthcare is the adoption of scientific advancements in dentistry, commonly known as "digital dentistry" by many.  In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) campaigns revolutionize on a regular basis, encouraging the creation and spread of community wellbeing practices that are holded up by both documentation and conveyance technology (e-Health) and mobile phones (m-Health) [3]. We can see how scientific developments could facilitate to accomplish these aims by offering constructive apparatus if we focus on the concept of Dental Public Health (DPH) as “the knowledge and art of arresting and scheming dental disorders and understanding dental wellbeing through efficient group hard work” [4].

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Its Implications in Dental Care

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
H. Inegbenosun ◽  
E. P. Ofiri ◽  
C. C. Azodo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
The World ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
The Government

COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China a few months ago (December 2019) and had since become a major challenging public health problem for not only China but also many countries around the world. It was on March 11, 2020, characterized by WHO as a pandemic. The pandemic so far has killed more than 526,465 people and infected more than 11,046,917 people around the world as of 05 July 2020. Nigeria currently has 28,167 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 11,462 (40%) discharged, 16,071 (57%) currently receiving treatment at designated facilities across the country and unfortunately 634 (3%) deaths as at the time of writing this manuscript. As far as the authors are aware, there are little or no work carried out on the implications of COVID-19 on dental practices in Nigeria. Recently, COVID-19 was identified in saliva of infected patients and so transmission via aerosols and splatter generated during dental procedures is sure. To limit exposure, there was a need to avoid scheduling patients except for emergency dental care during this outbreak. This limitation on activities of the dental sector has a very huge impact on the economy of the sector as it has already resulted in serious monetary implications for dental practices worldwide. While dental practices in the high-income countries are getting help from their respective Government, those in the middle and low-income countries like Nigeria have been left to wallow in bankruptcy without support. The authors highly recommend that the Government of these neglected countries, step up and support dental practices that are on the brink of closing down due to the low turnout of patients to their practice during this outbreak.

scholarly journals WINNING THE WAR AGAINST COVID-19 IN MALAYSIA: AN ACHIEVABLE GOAL?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Mohd Hafiz Jaafar ◽  
Amirah Azzeri
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Healthcare Resources ◽  
Epidemic Curve ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Achievable Goal ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has initially categorised COVID-19 infection as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) in late January 2020 and later on declared the outbreak as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. On February 4, 2020 the first Malaysian positive COVID-19 patients was detected. It was estimated through a thorough decision tree technique, cumulatively 22,000 positive patients were expected to be infected nationwide. At the current rate of disease detection, screening yield and clinical capacity in Malaysia, the identification of the positive patients will have to be continuously done until middle of May 2020. In addition, a prediction with the forecasted testing capacity was also conducted. In contrast with the earlier estimation, massive testing causes the number of positive patients to be saturated earlier, by the end of April 2020. Based on the projection, 346, 307 cumulative tests will be conducted with 225,100 cumulative positive cases will be identified. Of the numbers, the cumulative number of patients in care would be 17,631 with 705 cumulative number of admission to intensive care unit and 353 cumulative patients required for ventilator. The cumulative death and cumulative discharge are expected to be 394 and 6008 respectively. Currently, it is challenging for Malaysia to flatten the epidemic curve due to the constraints of healthcare resources. These challenges potentially highlight the need for realistic strategies with regard to the country’s capacity.

scholarly journals Diagnostic and Therapeutic Value of Aptamers in Envenomation Cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3565
Author(s):  
Steven Ascoët ◽  
Michel De Waard
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Therapeutic Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Animal Venoms

It is now more than a century since Albert Calmette from the Institut Pasteur changed the world of envenomation by demonstrating that antibodies raised against animal venoms have the ability to treat human victims of previously fatal bites or stings. Moreover, the research initiated at that time effectively launched the discipline of toxicology, first leading to the search for toxic venom components, followed by the demonstration of venoms that also contained compounds of therapeutic value. Interest from pharmaceutical companies to treat envenomation is, however, declining, mainly for economic reasons, and hence, the World Health Organization has reclassified this public health issue to be a highest priority concern. While the production, storage, and safety of antivenom sera suffer from major inconveniences, alternative chemical and technological approaches to the problem of envenomation need to be considered that bypass the use of antibodies for toxin neutralization. Herein, we review an emerging strategy that relies on the use of aptamers and discuss how close—or otherwise—we are to finding a viable alternative to the use of antibodies for the therapy of human envenomation.

scholarly journals Dental Public Health Landscape: Challenges, Technological Innovation and Opportunities in the 21st Century and COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Mascitti ◽  
Giuseppina Campisi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Dental Care ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Dental Public Health ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

In response to the 2008 economic and financial crisis and to its effects on healthcare systems, dental care has become unaffordable for many people, and a huge number of patients worldwide are avoiding or skipping necessary dental treatments [...]

scholarly journals How COVID-19 Redefines the Concept of Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Hakovirta ◽  
Navodya Denuwara
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Temporary Closure

In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to be a public health emergency of international concern. Currently, in several countries globally, this pandemic continues to enforce the temporary closure of all nonessential shops and services aside from supermarkets and pharmacies. Workers in countries that are at a high risk of infection have been asked to work from home, as cities have been placed under lockdown. Even curfews to combat the spread of the virus have been imposed in several countries, with all this signaling an unprecedented disruption of commerce. Companies are facing various challenges regarding health and safety, supply chain, labor force, cash flow, consumer demand and marketing. People in the thousands are dying every day from the virus’s symptoms, while a public health issue has forced the world to come to a halt and rethink what a sustainable future for our planet and existence is. These drastic recent events have raised the deliberation by the authors to redefine the concept of sustainability.

scholarly journals Special Issue: Preterm Birth: Research, Intervention and Developmental Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3169
Author(s):  
Annalisa Guarini ◽  
Miguel Pérez Pereira ◽  
Anneloes van Baar ◽  
Alessandra Sansavini
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Preterm Birth ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

As indicated by the World Health Organization, preterm birth is a relevant public health issue, being one of the leading causes of death in children under five years of age [...]

A Clinical Study on the efficacy of Ashvagandha Ksheerapaka in Stree Vandhyatva w.s.r. to Anovulation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajani Kagga ◽  
Vishwesh B. N.
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Clinical Study ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Wide ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Induction Of Ovulation ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertility Problems ◽  
Health Organization

Fertility is an existential necessity and as such has assumed over whelming importance from time immemorial. However, not all couples who desire a pregnancy will achieve one spontaneously and a proportion of couples will need medical help to resolve underlying fertility problems. Infertility has been recognized as a public health issue world wide by the World Health Organization. Infertility severely affects the couples psychologically, sexually and socially. Anovulation accounts for 25 - 40% of the female infertility. Ayurveda offers several potent combinations in such a condition. The aim of the present paper is to address this problem by studying the efficacy of Ashvagandha Ksheerapaka in the induction of ovulation

scholarly journals Haiti’s cholera epidemic: will it return in 2021?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Author(s):  
Valentine Sanon Valentine Sanon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Medical Monitoring ◽  
Cholera Epidemic ◽  
Hygiene Measures ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Susceptible Populations

Cholera is a scourge that has plagued humanity from early times; no era was exempt at different times in history, and the mere mention of cholera in past generations often caused panic among susceptible populations. Now with the recent 7.2 magnitude in Haiti, the question re- emerges: can Haiti’s cholera epidemic return considering the extensive earthquake damage that has recently occurred? Haiti is prone to earthquakes, due to its location along a fault line, and over the centuries has encountered numerous earthquakes, some including the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes of 7.0 or greater magnitude. Cholera has been around for centuries, and in the last century has caused at least 7 devastating global outbreaks each claiming thousands of innocent human lives. Cholera infects 1.3 to 4 million people around the world annually with over 20,000 deaths per year according to the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics. Cholera is a microbial disease of multicausal origin and fecal-oral transmission, where various biological, environmental, social, political and cultural factors often intervene, thereby presenting complex solutions for what often becomes a public health issue in the broader community. Over 819,000 Haitians became ill with cholera during the years following the 2010 earthquake, with nearly 10,000 deaths reported as a result of one of Haiti’s main waterways accidently becoming contaminated with the highly infectious cholera organism. Considering the severe damages now being reported from the August – 2021 earthquake followed by a severe weather outlook, the potential for a re-emergence of the cholera epidemic may now become a serious public health threat to the island Nation, including the potential risks to other nearby Island nations in the Caribbean and beyond should infected carriers relocate to non-earthquake prone localities. Implementation of effective hygiene measures, including timely medical monitoring and strategic intervention where indicated will be essential to prevent a resurgence of cholera or other public health issues in the coming weeks and months aftermath of the destruction of the roads, structures and public health resources resulting from the recent earthquake in Haiti.

scholarly journals A review of the control of schistosomiasis in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol Volume 111 (Number 11/12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kundai Magaisa ◽  
Myra Taylor ◽  
Eyrun F. Kjetland ◽  
Panjasaram J. Naidoo ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
World Health ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
School Age ◽  
World Health Assembly Resolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Genital

Abstract Schistosomiasis is the second most important tropical disease in the world in terms of public health impact. In South Africa, more than 4 million people are estimated to be infected with schistosomiasis. School-age children usually have the highest prevalence and intensity of infection. Schistosoma haematobium may result in female genital schistosomiasis which presents as inflammation and ulceration of the genital mucosa and pathological blood vessels. These effects may increase the susceptibility of women with female genital schistosomiasis to HIV. Praziquantel is the drug used to treat schistosomiasis and it is best to treat people during the early stages of infection, before female genital schistosomiasis presents as lesions and sandy patches, as there currently is no treatment for these symptoms. Schistosomiasis is not regarded as a serious public health issue in South Africa despite evidence revealing the seriousness of the disease. In areas endemic for schistosomiasis, the World Health Organization recommends regular mass treatment of all school-age children. In 2001, South Africa became a signatory to the World Health Assembly resolution 54.19 which urged all member states to achieve the minimum goal of 75% treatment coverage in school-age children at risk by 2010. This goal was not achieved in South Africa, despite efforts made by the Department of Health, such as the first statutory school-based geohelminth control programme in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. However, this programme has not been continued. Therefore, there is still much work to be done in order to control and decrease the prevalence of schistosomiasis in endemic areas.

The effects of Personal, Environmental, and Genetic Factors on Epidemic of COVID-19: A Review of the Current Literature (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojatollah Kakaei 6th ◽  
Salar Bakhtiyari ◽  
Amin Mirzaei ◽  
Sajad Mazloomi ◽  
Mohsen Jalilian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The City

UNSTRUCTURED COVID-19 is a viral disease that unfolded in the city of Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019. The global outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has prompted the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency. The concerns about the COVID-19 disease are the rapid increase in the number of patients as well as the number of deaths compared with SARS disease. Given that there is a remarkable variability amongst people for COVID-19, there really is the possibility that there will be genetic and environmental effects, it is a necessity that their role should be absolutely identified as soon as possible. Various studies have been executed on the effects of genetic and environmental factors such as temperature and humidity on the constancy of the COVID-19 virus. In this review, we aimed to discuss the benefits and effects of these factors on COVID-19 in detail.

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