public health and economic crisis. Significantly, no pharmaceutical agents are known to be safe and effective at preventing or treating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the resulting illness.3This leaves the medical and public health community with only nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to ...
COVID-19 has provided food for thought in many areas of public health that need to improve for us to respond to a similar health crisis in the future efficiently. COVID-19 has affected some countries more than others, and this has primarily been a matter of strategy. Some countries adopted...
In response to COVID-19, governments worldwide are implementing public health and social measures (PHSM) that substantially impact many areas beyond public health. The new field ofPHSMdata science collects, structures, and disseminates data onPHSM; here, we report the main achievements, challenge...
COVID-19, which has spread rapidly and enveloped most of the world, is a global public health crisis the likes of which we have not seen in a century. After the outbreak, the Chinese government adopted the most comprehensive, stringent and thorough prevention and control measures in an attemp...
CRISIS intervention (Mental health services)SOCIAL case workRESEARCH methodologyPUBLIC healthSOCIAL supportBackground: Sex trafficking of persons, a pervasive public health issue disproportionately affecting the most marginalized within society, often leads to health as well as social consequences. Social ...
In 2020, the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 virus threw the entire world into a public health crisis. In early 2020, when China was combating the epidemic, different nations from the world cheered for China, which provided support and encouragement during China's fight against the virus. To...
Responding to COVID-19: Addressing the public health crisis Information for US state leaders ALL INFORMATION CURRENT ONLY AS OF 4/17/2020 THIS DOCUMENT IS INTENDED SOLELY TO PROVIDE INSIGHTS AND EXAMPLE PRACTICES. THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ADVICE. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY A...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis that has the potential to exacerbate worldwide malnutrition. This study examines whether patients with a history of malnutrition are predisposed to severe COVID-19. To do so, data on 103,099 COVID-19 inpati
which underlined that the COVID-19 global crisis had evolved towards a full-fledged policy “wicked problem”. With the aim to make sense of the seemingly paradoxical scientific disagreement around COVID-19 public health policies, we offer an ethical analysis of the scientific views encapsulated in...
Occupational health professionals say long Covid sufferers should not be placed on protracted sick leave, since long periods of worklessness are also damaging. Instead, they should be allowed to return at a far more gentle, gradual pace, with adjustments tailored to their specific circumstances and...