The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern. In China, all schools were shut down and students were home quarantined to prevent disease spread; these steps could have potential negative effects on mental
[5] and other authors [14] have argued that medical students should be considered as physicians-in-training, even during surges in COVID-19 cases and potential future pandemics. These methods warrant further validation and adaptation to different cultural and socio-economic contexts. In our study...
Pandemics past, present, and future: Their impact on oral health care Background:Pandemics have significantly modified our societal behaviour over the millennia, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Types of articles re... L Samaranayake,KS Fakhruddin - 《Journal of the American Dental ...
In addition, four influenza pandemics have been recorded since the beginning of the last century: the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957 Asian flu, the 1968 Hong Kong flu and the 2009 swine flu1,2, along with the reemergence of H1N1 virus in 1977 (ref. 3). The impact of these pandemics ...
This study views sustainability after the exit of development assistance for health (DAH) as a shared responsibility between donors and recipients and sees transitioning DAH-supported interventions into domestic health policy as a pathway to this sustain
The overall mortality rate of COVID-19 is vari- summarized the possible interactions between the two raging able, ranging from as low as 0.7% in Germany to as high as 10.8% in pandemics. Italy [2]; nevertheless, older adults and people with underlying comorbidities invariably have a poor ...
George Hong, a native ofChinawho spent years living in theU.Sand maintains offices in both countries, is intimately familiar with key buyers and investors on both sides of the Pacific. When Chinese buyers became a major force in the domain aftermarket - especially at the high end of it - ...
This study examined prevalences of anxiety and depression and their correlations with daily routines among Hong Kong Chinese during the COVID-19 pandemic. Random digit dialing recruited two population-representative samples of 6029 residents during a per
Furthermore, the observed decrease in adaptive coping behaviors suggests that easy-to-implement coping strategies should be actively promoted in order to maintain mental health during and in the aftermath of pandemics. Keywords: mental health; COVID-19; pandemic; coping; adjustment disorder; ...
A clear example of this is provided by the evolution of pandemics, as is the case of the current one caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, where the appearance of successive waves of infection has been (and continues to be) observed. This motivates the use of sigmoidal curves with more than ...