COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)-Part III

The Below is the Part III of COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19), We Will Present the Tasks from Six Till Nine by applying the natural language processing and Artificial intelligence algorithms, We have filtered the most correlated articles related to the below tasks, you can get the complete article by clicking on the title link:   

6th Task: What has been published about medical care?

Task Details

What has been published about medical care? What has been published concerning surge capacity and nursing homes? What has been published concerning efforts to inform allocation of scarce resources? What do we know about personal protective equipment? What has been published concerning alternative methods to advise on disease management? What has been published concerning processes of care? What do we know about the clinical characterization and management of the virus?

Specifically, we want to know what the literature reports about:

• Resources to support skilled nursing facilities and long term care facilities.
• Mobilization of surge medical staff to address shortages in overwhelmed communities
• Age-adjusted mortality data for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) with/without other organ failure – particularly for viral etiologies
• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) outcomes data of COVID-19 patients
• Outcomes data for COVID-19 after mechanical ventilation adjusted for age.
• Knowledge of the frequency, manifestations, and course of extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19, including, but not limited to, possible cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrest.
• Application of regulatory standards (e.g., EUA, CLIA) and ability to adapt care to crisis standards of care level.
• Approaches for encouraging and facilitating the production of elastomeric respirators, which can save thousands of N95 masks.
• Best telemedicine practices, barriers and faciitators, and specific actions to remove/expand them within and across state boundaries.
• Guidance on the simple things people can do at home to take care of sick people and manage disease.
• Oral medications that might potentially work.
• Use of AI in real-time health care delivery to evaluate interventions, risk factors, and outcomes in a way that could not be done manually.
• Best practices and critical challenges and innovative solutions and technologies in hospital flow and organization, workforce protection, workforce allocation, community-based support resources, payment, and supply chain management to enhance capacity, efficiency, and outcomes.
• Efforts to define the natural history of disease to inform clinical care, public health interventions, infection prevention control, transmission, and clinical trials
• Efforts to develop a core clinical outcome set to maximize usability of data across a range of trials
• Efforts to determine adjunctive and supportive interventions that can improve the clinical outcomes of infected patients (e.g. steroids, high flow oxygen)

Importance of diagnostics in epidemic and pandemic preparedness Analysis

Authors : Kelly-Cirino, Cassandra D; Nkengasong, John; Kettler, Hannah; Tongio, Isabelle; Gay-Andrieu, Fran?oise; Escadafal, Camille; Piot, Peter; Peeling, Rosanna W; Gadde, Renuka; Boehme, Catharina

Abstract: Summary box\n\n? Diagnostics are a fundamental component of successful outbreak containment or control strategies, and each individual pathogen presents specific diagnostic challenges. Current diagnostic landscapes for selected priority pathogens are presented in this supplement. ? Recent outbreaks of Ebola, Zika and yellow fever have highlighted overarching barriers to diagnostic preparedness that are common to all outbreak/epidemic situations. ? A holistic, multistakeholder response throug...

Publish Time: 2019-01-29

Journal: BMJ Glob Health

Better Tests, Better Care: Improved Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases

Authors: Caliendo, Angela M.; Gilbert, David N.; Ginocchio, Christine C.; Hanson, Kimberly E.; May, Larissa; Quinn, Thomas C.; Tenover, Fred C.; Alland, David; Blaschke, Anne J.; Bonomo, Robert A.; Carroll, Karen C.; Ferraro, Mary Jane; Hirschhorn, Lisa R.; Joseph, W. Patrick; Karchmer, Tobi; MacIntyre, Ann T.; Reller, L. Barth; Jackson, Audrey F.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nIn this IDSA policy paper, we review the current diagnostic landscape, including unmet needs and emerging technologies, and assess the challenges to the development and clinical integration of improved tests. To fulfill the promise of emerging diagnostics, IDSA presents recommendations that address a host of identified barriers. Achieving these goals will require the engagement and coordination of a number of stakeholders, including Congress, funding and regulatory bodies, public...

Publish Time: 2013-11-06

Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases

Everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time

Authors: Gardy, Jennifer L.; Loman, Nicholas J.

Abstract: Abstract\n\n| The recent Ebola and Zika epidemics demonstrate the need for the continuous surveillance, rapid diagnosis and real-time tracking of emerging infectious diseases. Fast, affordable sequencing of pathogen genomes -now a staple of the public health microbiology laboratory in well-resourced settings -can affect each of these areas. Coupling genomic diagnostics and epidemiology to innovative digital disease detection platforms raises the possibility of an open, global, digital pathog...

Publish Time: 2017-11-13

Journal: Nat Rev Genet

Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise A Commentary from the International Society for Disease Surveillance Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise OJPHI

Authors: Mirza, Nabila; Reynolds, Tera; Coletta, Michael; Suda, Katie; Soyiri, Ireneous; Markle, Ariana; Leopold, Henry; Lenert, Leslie; Samoff, Erika; Siniscalchi, Alan; Streichert, Laura

Abstract: Abstract\n\nAt a time when populations are changing and disease outbreaks and other events of public health significance pose increasing risks to global health, economic stability, and national security, it is essential that, as a nation, we invest in the systems needed to promote and protect the public's health.More than a decade into the 21 st century, the ability to effectively monitor community health status, as well as forecast, detect, and respond to disease outbreaks and other events ...

Publish Time: 2013-07-01

Journal: Online J Public Health Inform

Conceptualising the technical relationship of animal disease surveillance to intervention and mitigation as a basis for economic analysis

Authors     : H?sler, Barbara; Howe, Keith S; St?rk, Katharina DC

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nBackground: Surveillance and intervention are resource-\n\n

Publish Time: 2011-09-19

Journal: BMC Health Serv Res

International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Authors: Murray, Jillian; Cohen, Adam L.

Abstract: Goals of Infectious Disease Surveillance\n\nInfectious disease surveillance is an important epidemiological tool to monitor the health of a population. The goals of infectious disease surveillance are threefold: (1) to describe the current burden and epidemiology of disease, (2) to monitor trends, and (3) to identify outbreaks and new pathogens. First, describing the burden and epidemiology (including seasonality, age distribution, age groups, etc.) of disease is critical for demonstrating t...

Publish Time: 2017-12-31

Journal: International Encyclopedia of Public Health

The Past, Present, and Future of Public Health Surveillance

Authors: Choi, Bernard C. K.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nis paper provides a review of the past, present, and future of public health surveillance-the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health action. Public health surveillance dates back to the ?rst recorded epidemic in 3180 B.C. in Egypt. Hippocrates (460 B.C.-370 B.C.) coined the terms endemic and epidemic, John Graunt (1620-1674) introduced systematic data analysis, Sa...

Publish Time: 2012-08-05

Journal: Scientifica (Cairo)

Public Health Surveillance: A Vital Alert and Response Function

Authors: Ungchusak, Kumnuan; Heymann, David; Pollack, Marjorie

Abstract: Introduction\n\nA three-month delay in identifying the outbreak of Ebola virus in rural Guinea in late 2013 resulted in its rapid spread to urban areas and to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone [1] . Once local and international responders identified the virus, they took a year to interrupt its widespread transmission. By April 2016, Ebola had accounted for more than 28,000 cases and over 11,000 deaths. People around the world watched with increasing alarm, as this tragic course of events

Publish Time: 2018-07-27

Journal: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice

Perspectives of public health laboratories in emerging infectious diseases

Authors: Chua, Kaw Bing; Gubler, Duane J

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe world has experienced an increased incidence and transboundary spread of emerging infectious diseases over the last four decades. We divided emerging infectious diseases into four categories, with subcategories in categories 1 and 4. The categorization was based on the nature and characteristics of pathogens or infectious agents causing the emerging infections, which are directly related to the mechanisms and patterns of infectious disease emergence. The factors or combinatio...

Publish Time: 2013-06-26

Journal: Emerg Microbes Infect

Surveillance of Infectious Diseases

Authors: Morgan, O.W.; Pinner, R.W.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nSurveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data essential to public health practice for public health action. This article describes important principles, techniques, and global trends in modern infectious disease surveillance. The article highlights the integration of laboratory and epidemiological methods, together with information technology.\n\n

Publish Time: 2009-12-31

Journal: Encyclopedia of Microbiology

Syndromic surveillance: A necessary public health tool Syndromic surveillance Influenza Emerging infectious diseases Emergency department

Authors: Lateef, Fatimah

Abstract: Introduction\n\nIn the highly interconnected and readily traversed global village of today, geographical and political boundaries offer trivial impediment to the spread of infections. With the rapidity of technological development and information gathering today, the way we handle medical cases and situations too has evolved. This must come hand in hand with a change in mindset amongst healthcare personnel. Relevant issues would include how we handle emerging infectious diseases such as Seve

Publish Time: 2012-12-31

Journal: Journal of Acute Disease

Surveillance strategy for early detection of unusual infectious disease events

Authors : Koopmans, Marion

Abstract: Abstract\n\nNew pathogens continue to emerge, and the increased connectedness of populations across the globe through international travel and trade favors rapid dispersal of any new disease. The ability to respond to such events has increased but the question is what 'preparedness' means at the level of the clinician. Clinicians deal with patients with unexplained illness on a daily basis, and even with syndromes highly indicative of infectious diseases, the cause of illness is often not de...

Publish Time: 2013-04-30

Journal: Current Opinion in Virology

Learning Outcomes

Authors: Oleske, Denise M.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nAfter completing this chapter, you will be able to:1. Distinguish between screening and surveillance activities. 2. Interpret the accuracy of a screening test. 3. Identify limitations associated with screening for a health problem. 4. Plan a surveillance system based upon known risk factors for a health problem. 5. Identify limitations of a surveillance system.\n\n

Publish Time: 2009-04-02

Journal: Epidemiology and the Delivery of Health Care Services

Bringing together emerging and endemic zoonoses surveillance: shared challenges and a common solution

Authors: Halliday, Jo; Daborn, Chris; Auty, Harriet; Mtema, Zacharia; Lembo, Tiziana; Bronsvoort, Barend M. deC.; Handel, Ian; Knobel, Darryn; Hampson, Katie; Cleaveland, Sarah

Abstract: Abstract\n\nEarly detection of disease outbreaks in human and animal populations is crucial to the effective surveillance of emerging infectious diseases. However, there are marked geographical disparities in capacity for early detection of outbreaks, which limit the effectiveness of global surveillance strategies. Linking surveillance approaches for emerging and neglected endemic zoonoses, with a renewed focus on existing disease problems in developing countries, has the potential to overco...

Publish Time: 2012-10-19

Journal    : Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci

The remarkable adaptability of syndromic surveillance to meet public health needs

Authors: Paterson, Beverley J.; Durrheim, David N.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe goal of syndromic surveillance is the earlier detection of epidemics, allowing a timelier public health response than is possible using traditional surveillance methods. Syndromic surveillance application for public health purposes has changed over time and reflects a dynamic evolution from the collection, interpreta\n\n

Publish Time: 2013-03-31

Journal: Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

Acquired immunity and asymptomatic reservoir impact on frontline and airport ebola outbreak syndromic surveillance and response Acquired immunity and asymptomatic reservoir impact on frontline and airport ebola outbreak syndromic surveillance and response Multilingual abstract

Authors: Tambo, Ernest; Xiao-Nong, Zhou

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe number of surveillance networks for infectious disease diagnosis and response has been growing. In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which has been endorsed by each of the 46 WHO African members since then. Yet, taming the dynamics and plague of the vicious Ebola virus disease (EVD) in African countries has been patchy and erratic due to inadequate surveillance and contact tracing, community defiance and resi...

Publish Time: 2014-10-29

Journal: Infect Dis Poverty

Interventional Association for Suici de Surveillance of Disease: Overview

Authors: Arita, I.; Nakane, M.; Nakano, T.

Abstract: Historical Development\n\nIn civil society, police and security systems are alert to abnormal incidents that may cause hazards in communities, nations, and perhaps the world. The information discovered and assembled by this system is transmitted to an authority responsible for setting up measures to eliminate the cause of hazard. The human body provides immunological surveillance, the body's defenses that recognize foreign materials or malignant cells; thus surveillance information helps the

Publish Time: 2008-12-31

Journal: International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Strengthening Global Public Health Surveillance through Data and Benefit Sharing POLICY REVIEW

Authors : Edelstein, Michael; Lee, Lisa M.; Herten-Crabb, Asha; Heymann, David L.; Harper, David R.

Abstract: Global outbreaks, including those of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Ebola virus disease, remind us that a public health event in a single location can rapidly become a global crisis. Control of infectious diseases can therefore be considered a global public good, and public health surveillance is a tool that helps achieve it. Timely sharing of public health surveillance data enables better preparedness and response, locally and globally

Publish Time: 2018-07-10

Journal: Emerg Infect Dis

7th Task: What do we know about diagnostics and surveillance?

Task Details

What do we know about diagnostics and surveillance? What has been published concerning the systematic, holistic approach to diagnostics (from the public health surveillance perspective to being able to predict clinical outcomes)?

Specifically, we want to know what the literature reports about:

• How widespread current exposure is to be able to make immediate policy recommendations on mitigation measures. Denominators for testing and a mechanism for rapidly sharing that information, including demographics, to the extent possible. Sampling methods to determine asymptomatic disease (e.g., use of serosurveys (such as convalescent samples) and early detection of disease (e.g., use of screening of neutralizing antibodies such as ELISAs).
• Efforts to increase capacity on existing diagnostic platforms and tap into existing surveillance platforms.
• Recruitment, support, and coordination of local expertise and capacity (public, private—commercial, and non-profit, including academic), including legal, ethical, communications, and operational issues.
• National guidance and guidelines about best practices to states (e.g., how states might leverage universities and private laboratories for testing purposes, communications to public health officials and the public).
• Development of a point-of-care test (like a rapid influenza test) and rapid bed-side tests, recognizing the tradeoffs between speed, accessibility, and accuracy.
• Rapid design and execution of targeted surveillance experiments calling for all potential testers using PCR in a defined area to start testing and report to a specific entity. These experiments could aid in collecting longitudinal samples, which are critical to understanding the impact of ad hoc local interventions (which also need to be recorded).
• Separation of assay development issues from instruments, and the role of the private sector to help quickly migrate assays onto those devices.
• Efforts to track the evolution of the virus (i.e., genetic drift or mutations) and avoid locking into specific reagents and surveillance/detection schemes.
• Latency issues and when there is sufficient viral load to detect the pathogen, and understanding of what is needed in terms of biological and environmental sampling.
• Use of diagnostics such as host response markers (e.g., cytokines) to detect early disease or predict severe disease progression, which would be important to understanding best clinical practice and efficacy of therapeutic interventions.
• Policies and protocols for screening and testing.
• Policies to mitigate the effects on supplies associated with mass testing, including swabs and reagents.
• Technology roadmap for diagnostics.
• Barriers to developing and scaling up new diagnostic tests (e.g., market forces), how future coalition and accelerator models (e.g., Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) could provide critical funding for diagnostics, and opportunities for a streamlined regulatory environment.
• New platforms and technology (e.g., CRISPR) to improve response times and employ more holistic approaches to COVID-19 and future diseases.
• Coupling genomics and diagnostic testing on a large scale.
• Enhance capabilities for rapid sequencing and bioinformatics to target regions of the genome that will allow specificity for a particular variant.
• Enhance capacity (people, technology, data) for sequencing with advanced analytics for unknown pathogens, and explore capabilities for distinguishing naturally-occurring pathogens from intentional.
• One Health surveillance of humans and potential sources of future spillover or ongoing exposure for this organism and future pathogens, including both evolutionary hosts (e.g., bats) and transmission hosts (e.g., heavily trafficked and farmed wildlife and domestic food and companion species), inclusive of environmental, demographic, and occupational risk factors.

Long-Term Care Facilities and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Practical Guidelines for a Population at Highest Risk

Authors: Dosa, David; Jump, Robin L.P.; LaPlante, Kerry; Gravenstein, Stefan

Abstract: Why Long-Term Care Preparedness for COVID-19 is Important\n\nSeveral epidemiological variables make long-term care facilities a priority area for near term public health planning. Most significantly, long-term care residents are among those at highest risk for COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. In 2014, 42% of long-term care residents were over the age of 85 and 68% over 75. 4 Initial estimates from the Chinese Centers for Disease Control indicate an overall fatality rate from COVID-19 of 2.3...

Publish Time: 2020-03-13

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Intensive care management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): challenges and recommendations

Authors: Phua, Jason; Weng, Li; Ling, Lowell; Egi, Moritoki; Lim, Chae-Man; Divatia, Jigeeshu Vasishtha; Shrestha, Babu Raja; Arabi, Yaseen M; Ng, Jensen; Gomersall, Charles D; Nishimura, Masaji; Koh, Younsuck; Du, Bin

Abstract: Abstract\n\nAs coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads across the world, the intensive care unit (ICU) community must prepare for the challenges associated with this pandemic. Streamlining of workflows for rapid diagnosis and isolation, clinical management, and infection prevention will matter not only to patients with COVID-19, but also to health-care workers and other patients who are at risk from nosocomial transmission. Management of acute respiratory failure and haemodynamics is key...

Publish Time: 2020-04-06

Journal: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Health Care Facility and Community Strategies for Patient Care Surge Capacity

Authors: Hick, John L.; Hanfling, Dan; Burstein, Jonathan L.; DeAtley, Craig; Barbisch, Donna; Bogdan, Gregory M.; Cantrill, Stephen

Abstract: Recent terrorist and epidemic events have underscored the potential for disasters to generate large numbers of casualties. Few surplus resources to accommodate these casualties exist in our current health care system. Plans for ''surge capacity'' must thus be made to accommodate a large number of patients. Surge planning should allow activation of multiple levels of capacity from the health care facility level to the federal level. Plans should be scalable and flexible to cope with them

Publish Time: 2004-09-30

Journal: Annals of Emergency Medicine

Pandemic Influenza: Implications for Preparation and Delivery of Critical Care Services

Authors: Manuell, Mary-Elise; Co, Mary Dawn T.; Ellison, Richard T.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nIn a five week span during the 1918 influenza A pandemic, more than 2,000 patients were admitted to Cook County Hospital in Chicago with a diagnosis of either influenza or pneumonia; 642 patients, approximately 31% of those admitted, died with deaths occurring predominantly in patients twenty-five to thirty years of age. 1 This review summarizes basic information on the biology, epidemiology, control, treatment and prevention of influenza overall, and then addresses the potential...

Publish Time: 2011-01-10

Journal: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Journal Pre-proof Maximizing the Calm Before the Storm: Tiered Surgical Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Maximizing the Calm Before the Storm: Tiered Surgical Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Introduction

Authors: Ross, Samuel Wade; Lauer, Cynthia W.; Miles, William S.; Green, John M.; Christmas, A Britton; May, Addison K.; Matthews, Brent D.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe novel coronavirus was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now spread throughout the world, being verified by the World Health Organization as a Pandemic on March 11 th . This had led to the calling of a national emergency on March 13 th in the United States. Many hospitals, healthcare networks, and specifically Departments of Surgery are asking the same questions of how to cope and plan for surge capacity, personnel attrition, novel infrastructure utiliza...

Publish Time: 2020-03-30

Journal: Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Journal Pre-proof COVID-19 and Telemedicine: Immediate action required for maintaining healthcare providers well-being COVID-19 and Telemedicine: Immediate action required for maintaining healthcare providers well-being

Authors: Moazzami, Bobak; Razavi-Khorasani, Niloofar; Dooghaie Moghadam, Arash; Farokhi, Ermia; Rezaei, Nima

Abstract: Abstract\n\nword count: 91 Manuscript word count: 713 J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 2 AbstractThe well-being of the health care workforce is the cornerstone of every well-functioning health system. As a result of the pandemic, medical healthcare providers are under an enormous amount of workload pressure along with increased total health expenditures. The overwhelming burden of COVID-19 illness could lead to caregiver burnout. Direct-to-consumer telemedicine can enable patients to connect w...

Publish Time: 2020-04-04

Journal: Journal of Clinical Virology

A War on Two Fronts: Cancer Care in the Time of COVID-19

Authors: Kutikov, Alexander; Weinberg, David S.; Edelman, Martin J.; Horwitz, Eric M.; Uzzo, Robert G.; Fisher, Richard I.

Abstract: The rapidly expanding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) acute respiratory pandemic has assaulted all aspects of daily life (1, 2) . As of 25 March 2020, there were more than 450 000 cases worldwide. In the absence of a vaccine or a therapeutic agent, a "social distancing" strategy is the primary intervention to hamper the spread of infection (1) . A major fear of most governments and individuals is the heavy impact on the health care delivery system. Cumbersome diagnostic...

Publish Time: 2020-03-27

Journal: Ann Intern Med

Cardiovascular Considerations for Patients, Health Care Workers, and Health Systems During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Authors: Driggin, Elissa; Madhavan, Mahesh V.; Bikdeli, Behnood; Chuich, Taylor; Laracy, Justin; Bondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe; Brown, Tyler S.; Nigoghossian, Caroline Der; Zidar, David A.; Haythe, Jennifer; Brodie, Daniel; Beckman, Joshua A.; Kirtane, Ajay J.; Stone, Gregg W.; Krumholz, Harlan M.; Parikh, Sahil A.

Abstract: Introduction\n\nFirst appearing in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus disease of 2019 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) (1, 2) . Given the rapid spread of this virus with consequences on an international scale, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World HealthOrganization on March 11 th 2020 (2) . It is imperative that health care workers and researchers across all disciplines be aware of the potential impact that this disease can have on their respective...

Publish Time: 2020-03-19

Journal: Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Journal Pre-proof Comparison of Hospitalized Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Caused by COVID-19 and H1N1 Word count: main text 2,953 words; abstract 294 words Comparison of Hospitalized Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Caused by COVID-19 and H1N1 Running head: Comparison of COVID-19 and H1N1

Authors: Tang, Xiao; Du, Ronghui; Wang, Rui; Cao, Tanze; Guan, Lulu; Yang, Chengqing; Zhu, Qi; Hu, Ming; Li, Xuyan; Li, Ying; Liang, Lirong; Tong, Zhaohui; Sun, Bing; Peng, Peng; Shi, Huanzhong

Abstract: Introduction\n\nSince December 2019, there has been a cluster of patients with pneumonia of previously unknown cause in Wuhan, China. Research by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) assessed the lower respiratory tracts of these patients and discovered a novel coronavirus, which has since been named the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 1 .On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially named this novel coronavirus pneumonia as Coronavirus ...

Publish Time: 2020-03-26

Journal: Chest

Journal Pre-proof The Role of Chest Imaging in Patient Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Consensus Statement from the Fleischner Society The Role of Chest Imaging in Patient Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Consensus Statement from the Fleischner Society The Role of Chest Imaging in Patient Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Consensus Statement from the Fleischner Society

Authors: Rubin, Geoffrey D.; Ryerson, Christopher J.; Haramati, Linda B.; Sverzellati, Nicola; Kanne, Jeffrey P.; Raoof, Suhail; Schluger, Neil W.; Volpi, Annalisa; Yim, Jae-Joon; Martin, Ian B.K.; Anderson, Deverick J.; Kong, Christina; Altes, Talissa; Bush, Andrew; Desai, Sujal R.; Goldin, Jonathan; Goo, Jin Mo; Humbert, Marc; Inoue, Yoshikazu; Kauczor, Hans-Ulrich; Luo, Fengming; Mazzone, Peter J.; Prokop, Mathias; Remy-Jardin, Martine; Richeldi, Luca; Schaefer-Prokop, Cornelia M.; Tomiyama, Noriy...

Abstract: For example, CT screening of 82 asymptomatic individuals with confirmed COVID-19 from the cruise ship "Diamond Princess" showed findings of pneumonia in 54% (11) .\n\nImaging Logistics During Pandemic\n\nProvision of diagnostic imaging services to large numbers of patients suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19 during an outbreak can be challenging, as each study is lengthened and complicated by the need for strict adherence to infection control protocols designed to minimize risk of

Publish Time: 2020-04-07

Journal: Chest

Crisis Symptom Management and Patient Communication Protocols Are Important Tools for All Clinicians Responding to COVID-19

Authors: Bowman, Brynn A.; Esch, Andrew E.; Back, Anthony L.; Marshall, Nadine

Abstract: Abstract\n\nSymptom management and skilled communication with patients and families are essential clinical services in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. While palliative care specialists have training in these skills, many front-line clinicians from other specialties do not. It is imperative that all clinicians responding to the COVID-19 crisis have access to clinical tools to support symptom management and difficult patient and family communication.\n\n

Publish Time: 2020-04-07

Journal: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

The cardiovascular burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with a focus on congenital heart disease

Authors: Tan, Weiyi; Aboulhosn, Jamil

Abstract: Introduction\n\nSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel betacoronavirus that was first described in a cluster of patients presenting with pneumonia symptoms in Wuhan, China [1] in December of 2019. Two previous epidemics caused by betacoronaviruses, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) [2] and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) [3] , presaged the potential that another betacoronavirus was likely to cause a widespread pa...

Publish Time: 2020-03-28

Journal: International Journal of Cardiology

Surge Capacity

Authors: Casani, Julie Ann P.; Romanosky, Albert J.

Abstract: The events of 2001 are often cited as being pivotal for a new definition of preparedness. In actuality, there were multiple factors forcing the healthcare industry to look at surge capacity before the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Beginning more than two decades earlier, crises in emergency department overcrowding provided insight into the necessity for flexing the number of hospital beds, providing rapid discharge of inpatients, delaying scheduled surgeries, diverting amb...

Publish Time: 2006-12-31

Journal: Disaster Medicine

End-of-life care in the emergency department for the patient imminently dying of a highly transmissible acute respiratory infection (such as COVID-19)

Authors: Hendin, Ariel; La Rivière, Christian G.; Williscroft, David M.; O'Connor, Erin; Hughes, Jennifer; Fischer, Lisa M.

Abstract: Coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) has quickly spread to cause a global pandemic, and produces a spectrum of disease from mild respiratory illness to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. Current estimates indicate that 15% of patients with COVID-19 will develop severe disease, and 5 to 10% will require intensive care-level support. In certain scenarios, escalation of life-sustaining therapies (defined as intubation, mechanical ventilation, vasopressor support, and/or hemodialysis) Publish Time : 2020-03-26

8th Task: What has been published about information sharing and inter-sectoral collaboration?

Task Details

What has been published about information sharing and inter-sectoral collaboration? What has been published about data standards and nomenclature? What has been published about governmental public health? What do we know about risk communication? What has been published about communicating with high-risk populations? What has been published to clarify community measures? What has been published about equity considerations and problems of inequity?

Specifically, we want to know what the literature reports about:

• Methods for coordinating data-gathering with standardized nomenclature.
• Sharing response information among planners, providers, and others.
• Understanding and mitigating barriers to information-sharing.
• How to recruit, support, and coordinate local (non-Federal) expertise and capacity relevant to public health emergency response (public, private, commercial and non-profit, including academic).
• Integration of federal/state/local public health surveillance systems.
• Value of investments in baseline public health response infrastructure preparedness
• Modes of communicating with target high-risk populations (elderly, health care workers).
• Risk communication and guidelines that are easy to understand and follow (include targeting at risk populations’ families too).
• Communication that indicates potential risk of disease to all population groups.
• Misunderstanding around containment and mitigation.
• Action plan to mitigate gaps and problems of inequity in the Nation’s public health capability, capacity, and funding to ensure all citizens in need are supported and can access information, surveillance, and treatment.
• Measures to reach marginalized and disadvantaged populations.
• Data systems and research priorities and agendas incorporate attention to the needs and circumstances of disadvantaged populations and underrepresented minorities.
• Mitigating threats to incarcerated people from COVID-19, assuring access to information, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Understanding coverage policies (barriers and opportunities) related to testing, treatment, and care

Journal Pre-proof Mutated COVID-19, May Foretells Mankind in a Great Risk in the Future Mutated COVID-19, May Foretells Mankind in a Great Risk in The Future Introduction

Authors: Dawood, Ali A.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nCorona virus disease 2019 SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a zoonotic virus causing a variety of severe of respiratory diseases. SARS-CoV-2 is closest to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV in structure. The highly prevalence of COVID-19 is due to the lack onset of symptoms. Our study aimed to present an overview of the virus in terms of structure, epidemiology, symptoms, treatment, and prevention. Conduct the differences of whole genome sequence and some viral proteins to determine the gap and the ch...

Publish Time: 2020-04-04

Journal: New Microbes and New Infections

Disaster Mitigation

Authors: Gougelet, Robert M.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe definition of mitigation includes a wide variety of measures taken before an event occurs that will prevent illness, injury, and death and limit the loss of property. Taking steps to mitigate potential hazards has taken on increasing favor in disaster preparedness circles, particularly in the international arena, where the pursuit of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM) is emphasized above efforts focused simply on disaster event response. The abso...

Publish Time: 2016-12-31

Journal: Ciottone's Disaster Medicine

Health Inequalities and Infectious Disease Epidemics: A Challenge for Global Health Security

Authors: Quinn, Sandra Crouse; Kumar, Supriya

Abstract: Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and 30 countries, these federal agencies have committed multiple collaborative efforts to strengthen global abilities to anticipate, monitor, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks, either naturally occurring or man-made, over the next 5 years. 6 In today's global society, infectious disease outbreaks can spread quickly throughout the world, fueled by the rapidity with which we t...

Publish Time: 2014-09-01

Journal: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science

Conceptualising the technical relationship of animal disease surveillance to intervention and mitigation as a basis for economic analysis

Authors     : H?sler, Barbara; Howe, Keith S; St?rk, Katharina DC

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nBackground: Surveillance and intervention are resource-\n\n

Publish Time: 2011-09-19

Journal: BMC Health Serv Res

Learning Objectives

Authors: Tulchinsky, Theodore H.; Varavikova, Elena A.

Abstract: INTRODUCTION\n\nThe development of public health from its ancient and recent roots, especially in the past several centuries, is a continuing process, with evolutionary and sometimes dramatic leaps forward, and important continuing and new challenges for personal and population health and well-being. Everything in the New Public Health is about preventing avoidable disease, injuries, disabilities, and death while promoting and maximizing a healthy environment and optimal conditions for curre...

Publish Time: 2014-12-31

Journal: The New Public Health

Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise A Commentary from the International Society for Disease Surveillance Steps to a Sustainable Public Health Surveillance Enterprise OJPHI

Authors: Mirza, Nabila; Reynolds, Tera; Coletta, Michael; Suda, Katie; Soyiri, Ireneous; Markle, Ariana; Leopold, Henry; Lenert, Leslie; Samoff, Erika; Siniscalchi, Alan; Streichert, Laura

Abstract: Abstract\n\nAt a time when populations are changing and disease outbreaks and other events of public health significance pose increasing risks to global health, economic stability, and national security, it is essential that, as a nation, we invest in the systems needed to promote and protect the public's health.More than a decade into the 21 st century, the ability to effectively monitor community health status, as well as forecast, detect, and respond to disease outbreaks and other events ...

Publish Time: 2013-07-01

Journal: Online J Public Health Inform

Emergency Preparedness and Public Health Systems Lessons for Developing Countries

Authors: Kruk, Margaret E.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nLow-and middle-income countries, where emerging diseases often make their debut, are also likely to bear the harshest consequences of a potential influenza pandemic. Yet public health systems in developing countries are underfunded, understaffed, and in many cases struggling to deal with the existing burden of disease. As a result, developed countries are beginning to expand assistance for emergency preparedness to the developing world. Given developing countries' weak infrastruc...

Publish Time: 2008-06-30

Journal: American Journal of Preventive Medicine

The Economic Value of One Health in Relation to the Mitigation of Zoonotic Disease Risks

Authors     : H?sler, Barbara; Gilbert, William; Jones, Bryony Anne; Pfeiffer, Dirk Udo; Rushton, Jonathan; Otte, Martin Joachim

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe essence of One Health is an interdisciplinary approach combined with some degree of intersectoral integration that is aimed at mitigation of human and animal health risks, taking account of environmental, ecological, social and economic factors. While a large number of international stakeholders now consider the One Health approach necessary for more effective protection of the global community against health threats, there is still no systematic allocation of resources to in...

Publish Time: 2012-07-04

Journal: One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Organization of Public Health Systems Learning Objectives

Authors: Tulchinsky, Theodore H.; Varavikova, Elena A.

Abstract: INTRODUCTION\n\nFormal structures to ensure public health evolved over the centuries as local authorities addressed fundamental societal needs for sanitation, safe water and food safety business licensing and other issues. These structures developed in response to the challenges of industrialization and urbanization along with growing scientific and applied methodologies for disease prevention and health promotion. Non-governmental charitable, religious, and advocacy organizations pioneered

Publish Time: 2014-12-31

Journal: The New Public Health

Communications in Public Health Emergency Preparedness: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Authors: Savoia, Elena; Lin, Leesa; Viswanath, Kasisomayajula

Abstract: Abstract\n\nDuring a public health crisis, public health agencies engage in a variety of public communication efforts to inform the population, encourage the adoption of preventive behaviors, and limit the impact of adverse events. Given the importance of communication to the public in public health emergency preparedness, it is critical to examine the extent to which this field of study has received attention from the scientific community. We conducted a systematic literature review to desc...

Publish Time: 2013-09-01

Journal: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science

Since 2003, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC; in Disaster Med Public Health Prep

Authors: Cope, James R.; Frost, Melinda; Richun, Li; Xie, Ruiqian

Abstract: Abstract\n\nObjective-Since 2003, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the Ministry of Health) has implemented changes to more effectively communicate risk during public health emergencies. In spite of ongoing improvements, provincial and subprovincial leaders face barriers, such as established modes of operation, lack of training, shortage of trained risk communicators, and limited understanding and willingness of recipients to mitigate risks.Methods-We asses...

Publish Time: 2014-05-01

Journal: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

The value of China-Africa health development initiatives in strengthening "One Health" strategy REVIEWS

Authors: Tambo, Ernest; Tang, Shenglan; Ai, Lin; Zhou, Xiao-Nong

Abstract: Abstract\n\nImplementing national to community-based "One Health" strategy for human, animal and environmental challenges and migrating-led consequences offer great opportunities, and its value of sustained development and wellbeing is an imperative. "One Health" strategy in policy commitment, partnership and financial investment are much needed in advocacy, contextual health human-animal and environmental development. Therefore, appropriate and evidence-based handling and management strateg...

Publish Time: 2017-06-30

Journal: Global Health Journal

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Policy and Science for Global Health Security: Shaping the Course of International Health

Authors: Berger, Kavita M.; Wood, James L. N.; Jenkins, Bonnie; Olsen, Jennifer; Morse, Stephen S.; Gresham, Louise; Root, J. Jeffrey; Rush, Margaret; Pigott, David; Winkleman, Taylor; Moore, Melinda; Gillespie, Thomas R.; Nuzzo, Jennifer B.; Han, Barbara A.; Olinger, Patricia; Karesh, William B.; Mills, James N.; Annelli, Joseph F.; Barnabei, Jamie; Lucey, Daniel; Hayman, David T. S.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe global burden of infectious diseases and the increased attention to natural, accidental, and deliberate biological threats has resulted in significant investment in infectious disease research. Translating the results of these studies to inform prevention, detection, and response efforts often can be challenging, especially if prior relationships and communications have not been established with decision-makers. Whatever scientific information is shared with decision-makers b...

Publish Time: 2019-04-10

Journal: Trop Med Infect Dis

Communicable disease alert and response for mass gatherings Key considerations

Authors: Lami, Faris; Hameed, Inam; Arbaji, Ali

Abstract: The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement.The mention of specific companies or of certain manufa...

Publish Time: 2019-10-04

Journal: JMIR Public Health Surveill

Strengthening Global Public Health Surveillance through Data and Benefit Sharing POLICY REVIEW

Authors: Edelstein, Michael; Lee, Lisa M.; Herten-Crabb, Asha; Heymann, David L.; Harper, David R.

Abstract: G lobal outbreaks, including those of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Ebola virus disease, remind us that a public health event in a single location can rapidly become a global crisis. Control of infectious diseases can therefore be considered a global public good, and public health surveillance is a tool that helps achieve it. Timely sharing of public health surveillance data enables better preparedness and response, locally and globally

Publish Time: 2018-07-10

Journal: Emerg Infect Dis

The challenges of public health education with a particular reference to China

Authors: Griffiths, S.M.; Li, L.M.; Tang, J.L.; Ma, X.; Hu, Y.H.; Meng, Q.Y.; Fu, H.

Abstract: The urgency of public health\n\nPublic health is becoming increasingly topical. The growing burden of non-communicable chronic diseases, threats of new emerging infections, demographic shifts and global environmental concerns underline the importance of population approaches that take account of a broad view of health. The emergence of human swine flu in Mexico and the USA, and the subsequent worldwide pandemic reinforce the importance of the lessons of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SAR...

Publish Time: 2010-04-30

Journal: Public Health

9th Task: What has been published about ethical and social science considerations?

Task Details

What has been published concerning ethical considerations for research? What has been published concerning social sciences at the outbreak response?

Specifically, we want to know what the literature reports about:

• Efforts to articulate and translate existing ethical principles and standards to salient issues in COVID-2019
• Efforts to embed ethics across all thematic areas, engage with novel ethical issues that arise and coordinate to minimize duplication of oversight
• Efforts to support sustained education, access, and capacity building in the area of ethics
• Efforts to establish a team at WHO that will be integrated within multidisciplinary research and operational platforms and that will connect with existing and expanded global networks of social sciences.
• Efforts to develop qualitative assessment frameworks to systematically collect information related to local barriers and enablers for the uptake and adherence to public health measures for prevention and control. This includes the rapid identification of the secondary impacts of these measures. (e.g. use of surgical masks, modification of health seeking behaviors for SRH, school closures)
• Efforts to identify how the burden of responding to the outbreak and implementing public health measures affects the physical and psychological health of those providing care for Covid-19 patients and identify the immediate needs that must be addressed.
• Efforts to identify the underlying drivers of fear, anxiety and stigma that fuel misinformation and rumor, particularly through social media.

Codes of Ethics in Public Health

Authors: Thomas, James C.; Miller, Reid

Abstract: Introduction\n\nIn 1974, an experiment conducted by the American Public Health Service was ended after a whistle-blower revealed what was widely considered as unethical conduct. The experiment, named after the local collaborator, the Tuskegee Institute, withheld known cures from low-income, undereducated black men infected with syphilis. Following this and other instances of unethical medical experimentation, the federal government issued the Belmont Report, providing ethical guidelines

Publish Time: 2017-12-31

Journal: International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Ethical Perspectives on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Epidemic in Korea

Authors: Kim, Ock-Joo

Abstract: Abstract\n\nEthical considerations are essential in planning for and responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases. During the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the Republic of Korea in 2015, serious challenges emerged regarding important ethical issues, such as transparency and the protection of privacy. The development of bioethics in Korea has been influenced by individualistic perspectives applied in clinical contexts, leading to a paucity of ethical...

Publish Time: 2016-01-29

Journal: J Prev Med Public Health

The emerging use of social media for health-related purposes in low and middle-income countries: A scoping review

Authors: Hagg, Emily; Dahinten, V. Susan; Currie, Leanne M.

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nBackground: Social media allows for instant access to, and dissemination of, information around the globe. Access to social media in low-and middle-income countries has increased exponentially in recent years due to technological advances. Despite this growth, the use of social media in low-and middle-income countries is less well-researched than in high-income countries. Objective: To identify, explore and summarize the current state of the literature on the use of social media ...

Publish Time: 2018-07-31

Journal: International Journal of Medical Informatics

Ethics for pandemics beyond influenza: Ebola, drug- resistant tuberculosis, and anticipating future ethical challenges in pandemic preparedness and response

Authors: Smith, Maxwell J.; Silva, Diego S.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe unprecedented outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa has raised several novel ethical issues for global outbreak preparedness. It has also illustrated that familiar ethical issues in infectious disease management endure despite considerable efforts to understand and mitigate such issues in the wake of past outbreaks. To improve future global outbreak preparedness and response, we must examine these shortcomings and reflect upon the current state of ethical prepa...

Publish Time: 2015-10-27

Journal: Monash Bioeth Rev

The Heart and Toxins

Authors: Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah; Meenakshisundaram, Ramachandran; Senthilkumaran, Subramanian

Abstract: Abstract\n\nlack of physician communication, and poor interpersonal skills. The trial attorneys believe that the threat of litigation makes doctors discharge their services more safely. 7 A deep-seated tension exists between the malpractice system and the goals and initiatives of patient safety. 7 Interestingly, improvements in patient safety have been accompanied by an increase in claims of professional medical liability. 4 The number of medical negligence cases against doctors, hospitals, ...

Publish Time: 2015-12-31

Journal: Heart and Toxins

Toward Control of Infectious Disease: Ethical Challenges for a Global Effort

Authors: Battin, Margaret P.; Smith, Charles B.; Francis, Leslie P.; Jacobson, Jay A.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nDespite the devastating pandemic of HIV/AIDS that erupted in the early 1980s, despite the failure to eradicate polio and the emergence of resistant forms of tuberculosis that came into focus in the 1990s, and despite newly emerging diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the fearsome prospect of human-to-human avian flu, it is nevertheless a time of some excitement over prospects for effective control of much of infectious disease. Funded by national an...

Publish Time: 2008

Journal: International Public Health Policy and Ethics

An ethical framework for evaluation of public health plans: a systematic process for legitimate and fair decision-making

Authors     : Akrami, F.; Zali, A.; Abbasi, M.; Majdzadeh, R.; Karimi, A.; Fadavi, M.; Mehrabi Bahar, A.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nFairness Accountability a b s t r a c t Objectives: Given the increasing threats of communicable and non-communicable diseases, it is necessary for policy-makers and public health (PH) professionals to address ethical issues in health policies and plans. This study aimed to develop a practical framework for the ethical evaluation of PH programs.Study design: A multidisciplinary team developed an ethical framework to evaluate PH plans from 2015 to 2017.Methods: In this study, the ...

Publish Time: 2018-11-30

Journal: Public Health

Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media

Authors: Wang, Yuxi; McKee, Martin; Torbica, Aleksandra; Stuckler, David

Abstract: Abstract\n\nContemporary commentators describe the current period as "an era of fake news" in which misinformation, generated intentionally or unintentionally, spreads rapidly. Although affecting all areas of life, it poses particular problems in the health arena, where it can delay or prevent effective care, in some cases threatening the lives of individuals. While examples of the rapid spread of misinformation date back to the earliest days of scientific medicine, the internet, by allowing...

Publish Time: 2019-11-30

Journal: Social Science & Medicine

Case Studies in Public Health

Authors: Tulchinsky, Theodore H.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThe field of public health includes a wide scope of activities and professional disciplines, ranging from sanitation, health protection, epidemiology, environmental health, financing, health promotion, including supervision, or the provision of clinical care. Each of these disciplines works in systems that face ethical dilemmas, making it important that public health workers have motivation to understand and practice within the ethical guidelines of their profession, thus making ...

Publish Time: 2018-12-31

Journal: Case Studies in Public Health

Global trends in research related to social media in psychology: mapping and bibliometric analysis

Authors: Zyoud, Sa’ed H.; Sweileh, Waleed M.; Awang, Rahmat; Al-Jabi, Samah W.

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nBackground: Social media, defined as interactive Web applications, have been on the rise globally, particularly among adults. The objective of this study was to investigate the trend of the literature related to the most used social network worldwide (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, and Instagram) in the field of psychology. Specifically, this study will assess the growth in publications, citation analysis, international collaboration, author productivity, emerging to...

Publish Time: 2018-01-19

Journal: Int J Ment Health Syst

Review School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review

Authors: Viner, Russell M; Russell, Simon J; Croker, Helen; Packer, Jessica; Ward, Joseph; Stansfield, Claire; Mytton, Oliver; Bonell, Chris; Booy, Robert

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nIn response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, 107 countries had implemented national school closures by March 18, 2020. It is unknown whether school measures are effective in coronavirus outbreaks (eg, due to severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS], Middle East respiratory syndrome, or COVID-19). We undertook a systematic review by searching three electronic databases to identify what is known about the effectiveness of school closures and other school social ...

Publish Time: 2020-04-06

Journal: The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Learning Objectives

Authors: Tulchinsky, Theodore H.; Varavikova, Elena A.

Abstract: INTRODUCTION\n\nThe development of public health from its ancient and recent roots, especially in the past several centuries, is a continuing process, with evolutionary and sometimes dramatic leaps forward, and important continuing and new challenges for personal and population health and well-being. Everything in the New Public Health is about preventing avoidable disease, injuries, disabilities, and death while promoting and maximizing a healthy environment and optimal conditions for curre

Publish Time: 2014-12-31

Journal: The New Public Health

Effective strategies for responding to rumors about risks: The case of radiation-contaminated food in South Korea

Authors: Paek, Hye-Jin; Hove, Thomas

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThis experimental study explores how governments should respond to rumors about nationallevel risk issues. Informed by research in rumor psychology and risk/crisis communication, it investigates whether type of rumor and rumor response strategy have main and interaction effects on reducing rumor beliefs and intention to disseminate rumor. The two featured rumor types are the bogie rumor, which highlights feared outcomes, and the wedge rumor, which aims to reinforce differences be...

Publish Time: 2019-09-30

Journal: Public Relations Review

Title: Study of knowledge, attitude, anxiety & perceived mental healthcare need in Indian population during COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Roy, Deblina; Tripathy, Sarvodaya; Kar, Sujita Kumar; Sharma, Nivedita; Verma, Sudhir Kumar; Kaushal, Vikas

Abstract: Introduction\n\nCOVID-19 started in December 2019, like a viral outbreak in Wuhan city of central Hubei province of China (Holshue et al., 2020) . A cluster of about 40 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology was reported, some of the patients being vendors and dealers in the Huanan Seafood market there. World Health Organization (WHO) along with Chinese authorities started working together and the etiological agent was soon established to be a new virus and was named Novel Corona Virus (2019

Publish Time: 2020-04-08

Journal: Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China

Authors: Wang, Cuiyan; Pan, Riyu; Wan, Xiaoyang; Tan, Yilin; Xu, Linkang; Ho, Cyrus S.; Ho, Roger C.

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nBackground: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic is a public health emergency of international concern and poses a challenge to psychological resilience. Research data are needed to develop evidence-driven strategies to reduce adverse psychological impacts and psychiatric symptoms during the epidemic. Results: This study included 1210 respondents from 194 cities in China. In total, 53.8% of respondents rated the psychological impact of the outbreak as moderate or seve...

Publish Time: 2020-03-06

Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health

653-662 Lor et al

Authors: Lor, Aun; Thomas, James C.; Barrett, Drue H.; Ortmann, Leonard W.; Herrera Guibert, Dionisio J.

Abstract    : Abstract\n\nBackground: Recognizing the importance of having a broad exploration of how cultural perspectives may shape thinking about ethical considerations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded four regional meetings in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Eastern Mediterranean to explore these perspectives relevant to pandemic influenza preparedness and response. The meetings were attended by 168 health professionals, scientists, academics, ethicists, religious lead...

Publish Time: 2016-05-17

Journal: Int J Health Policy Manag

The challenges of public health education with a particular reference to China

Authors: Griffiths, S.M.; Li, L.M.; Tang, J.L.; Ma, X.; Hu, Y.H.; Meng, Q.Y.; Fu, H.

Abstract: The urgency of public health\n\nPublic health is becoming increasingly topical. The growing burden of non-communicable chronic diseases, threats of new emerging infections, demographic shifts and global environmental concerns underline the importance of population approaches that take account of a broad view of health. The emergence of human swine flu in Mexico and the USA, and the subsequent worldwide pandemic reinforce the importance of the lessons of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SAR...

Publish Time: 2010-04-30

Journal: Public Health

Informed public against false rumor in the social media era: Focusing on social media dependency

Authors: Lee, Jiyoung; Choi, Yunjung

Abstract: Abstract\n\nThis study explores how the public's belief in false rumors about Middle East Respiratory Syndrome that spread across South Korea related to their accuracy-oriented information seeking as well as the moderating effects of people's reasons for using social networking services (SNS). The survey results show that perceived credibility of false rumors did not affect accuracy-oriented information seeking. However, a significant result was shown in the moderating effect, such that SNS ...

Publish Time: 2018-08-31

Journal: Telematics and Informatics

Do we need an ethical framework for hospital infection control?

Authors: Millar, M.

Abstract: Abstract\n\nStrategies for the control of the spread of infection in hospitals may lead to constraints on individual autonomy, freedom of movement, or contact with others. Codes of (ethical) practice for healthcare professionals tend to emphasise responsibilities to individual patients. Ethical frameworks for public health focus on groups of individuals (populations), the majority of whom are relatively healthy and empowered. Hospital infection control professionals must take account of both...

Publish Time: 2009-11-30

Journal: Journal of Hospital Infection