publiclyavailableNAPsdidnotmentionsexorgender (13)(Annex1).Despitethislackofattentiontogender, researchindicatesthatexposureandsusceptibilityto infection,health-seekingbehaviours,aswellaspatternsofantimicrobialprescribinganduseareallinfluencedbygenderconsiderations(14–19).Gendermayalsoaffect ...
“Border checkpoints and health points have been implemented on the major roads that are crossing between countries, so it provides a level of reassurance in terms of travelling.” She did not have information about how the checkpoints were managed, who was manning them or how many ...
The Ebola outbreak in west Africa has had a devastating effect on health workers in the three countries most affected by the virus. Of the nearly 17 000 cases of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, at least 600 have been among health-care providers. More than half...
The progress realised in the health indicators could be attributed to the public health development momentum generated by the 2000 MDG declaration [3]. In spite of that momentum, though, a significant number of countries in the Region did not achieve the health-related MDGs by end of 2015 (T...
OpenWHO does not have materials for SARS, which emerged in Asia in February 2003, as the platform did not exist at that time and courses have been staged for ongoing epidemic events [84]. However, respiratory syndrome disease courses have been hosted on the platform since 2019, which was rap...
public health emergency of international concern. In the present crisis, some have said that the director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus did not act with sufficient urgency and that, especially in the early stages of the outbreak, he was too deferential to China, the source of the infe...
Then, we continue with a review of behavioral effects that may contribute to improper processing of information about the role of pandemics on firm performance. 2.1. Pandemics and financial markets The impact of pandemics and infectious diseases on financial markets did not attract much attention in...
But the basic question is, where did viruses first come from?【4】“Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult,” Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, told Scientific American, “because viruses don’t leave fossils (化石) and because of the tricks the...
Magically, and weirdly, I did not have to let a few trains go by because not one appeared until the guitarist played the closing chords. All of us listeners got to soak up the full benefit. That was lovely, I told him and asked his name. Jessel, he said. Then he wished me a bea...
The remaining five did not report importation cases despite being at high risk of importation: these included countries in South-East Asia (e.g. India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh). Observed number of im- portation cases matched prediction in all countries, ex- cept for India, Egypt ...