Author : Robert J. Ursano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107138493
This book presents a decade of advances in the psychological, biological and social responses to disasters, helping medics and leaders prepare and react.
Author : Damir Huremović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3030153460
This book focuses on how to formulate a mental health response with respect to the unique elements of pandemic outbreaks. Unlike other disaster psychiatry books that isolate aspects of an emergency, this book unifies the clinical aspects of disaster and psychosomatic psychiatry with infectious disease responses at the various levels, making it an excellent resource for tackling each stage of a crisis quickly and thoroughly. The book begins by contextualizing the issues with a historical and infectious disease overview of pandemics ranging from the Spanish flu of 1918, the HIV epidemic, Ebola, Zika, and many other outbreaks. The text acknowledges the new infectious disease challenges presented by climate changes and considers how to implement systems to prepare for these issues from an infection and social psyche perspective. The text then delves into the mental health aspects of these crises, including community and cultural responses, emotional epidemiology, and mental health concerns in the aftermath of a disaster. Finally, the text considers medical responses to situation-specific trauma, including quarantine and isolation-associated trauma, the mental health aspects of immunization and vaccination, survivor mental health, and support for healthcare personnel, thereby providing guidance for some of the most alarming trends facing the medical community. Written by experts in the field, Psychiatry of Pandemics is an excellent resource for infectious disease specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, immunologists, hospitalists, public health officials, nurses, and medical professionals who may work patients in an infectious disease outbreak.
Author : Don Goldenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0197575390
COVID-19 Infection -- Risk Factors -- Impact on Healthcare Workers and Hospitals -- Impact on Primary Care and Specialty Care -- Telemedicine -- COVID-19 Truths, Lies and Consequences -- Persistent Medical Problems -- The Way Forward.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241547685
This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published March 2005 (WHO/CDS/CSR/GIP/2005.5).
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2004-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309182158
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that spread rapidly from its origins in southern China until it had reached more than 25 other countries within a matter of months. In addition to the number of patients infected with the SARS virus, the disease had profound economic and political repercussions in many of the affected regions. Recent reports of isolated new SARS cases and a fear that the disease could reemerge and spread have put public health officials on high alert for any indications of possible new outbreaks. This report examines the response to SARS by public health systems in individual countries, the biology of the SARS coronavirus and related coronaviruses in animals, the economic and political fallout of the SARS epidemic, quarantine law and other public health measures that apply to combating infectious diseases, and the role of international organizations and scientific cooperation in halting the spread of SARS. The report provides an illuminating survey of findings from the epidemic, along with an assessment of what might be needed in order to contain any future outbreaks of SARS or other emerging infections.
Author : Moumtzoglou, Anastasius
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1799891992
The COVID-19 pandemic has put massive stress on healthcare professionals’ formal training, their creed to do no harm, and the patient safety movement. COVID-19 affects all aspects of daily life and healthcare’s organizational culture and values. Healthcare institutions experience absenteeism, change in commerce patterns, and interrupted supply/delivery in this context. It has also revealed the extensive amounts of data needed for population health management, as well as the opportunities afforded by mainstreaming telehealth and virtual care capabilities, thus making the implementation of health IT essential in the post-pandemic era. Quality of Healthcare in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic clarifies how healthcare professionals might provide their services differently than treating a patient through its vicinity with multiple providers. It examines the notion that healthcare education requires a pack of healthcare workers from varied educational backgrounds and training levels for the nuances of a disease. Covering topics such as blockchain technology, power density analysis, and supply chain, this book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and extended degree program students, graduate students of healthcare quality and health services management, healthcare managers, health professionals, researchers, professors, and academicians.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2007-07-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309107695
In recent public workshops and working group meetings, the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has examined a variety of infectious disease outbreaks with pandemic potential, including those caused by influenza (IOM, 2005) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (IOM, 2004). Particular attention has been paid to the potential pandemic threat posed by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which is now endemic in many Southeast Asian bird populations. Since 2003, the H5N1 subtype of avian influenza has caused 185 confirmed human deaths in 11 countries, including some cases of viral transmission from human to human (WHO, 2007). But as worrisome as these developments are, at least they are caused by known pathogens. The next pandemic could well be caused by the emergence of a microbe that is still unknown, much as happened in the 1980s with the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and in 2003 with the appearance of the SARS coronavirus. Previous Forum meetings on pandemic disease have discussed the scientific and logistical challenges associated with pandemic disease recognition, identification, and response. Participants in these earlier meetings also recognized the difficulty of implementing disease control strategies effectively. Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease: Workshop Summary as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
Author : Subhendu Kumar Pani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030797538
This book comprehensively covers the topic of COVID-19 and other pandemics and epidemics data analytics using computational modelling. Biomedical and Health Informatics is an emerging field of research at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. The new era of pandemics and epidemics bring tremendous opportunities and challenges due to the plentiful and easily available medical data allowing for further analysis. The aim of pandemics and epidemics research is to ensure high-quality, efficient healthcare, better treatment and quality of life by efficiently analyzing the abundant medical, and healthcare data including patient’s data, electronic health records (EHRs) and lifestyle. In the past, it was a common requirement to have domain experts for developing models for biomedical or healthcare. However, recent advances in representation learning algorithms allow us to automatically learn the pattern and representation of the given data for the development of such models. Medical Image Mining, a novel research area (due to its large amount of medical images) are increasingly generated and stored digitally. These images are mainly in the form of: computed tomography (CT), X-ray, nuclear medicine imaging (PET, SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound. Patients’ biomedical images can be digitized using data mining techniques and may help in answering several important and critical questions related to health care. Image mining in medicine can help to uncover new relationships between data and reveal new and useful information that can be helpful for scientists and biomedical practitioners. Assessing COVID-19 and Other Pandemics and Epidemics using Computational Modelling and Data Analysis will play a vital role in improving human life in response to pandemics and epidemics. The state-of-the-art approaches for data mining-based medical and health related applications will be of great value to researchers and practitioners working in biomedical, health informatics, and artificial intelligence..
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309457637
While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.
Author : Ames Dhai
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN : 9781485131748
Table of contents: 1. Introduction to Pandemics and Healthcare. Principles, Processes and Practice 2. Pandemics: Global Health Security 3. An overview of ethical issues in the context of pandemics and healthcare 4. Selected medico-legal issues relating to South Africa's response to the COVID-19 pandemic 5. Health research, ethics and pandemics: Challenges and Recommendations. 6. The role of the news media during pandemics 7. Corruption, leadership and the corrosion of public health system capabilities in South Africa 8. An understanding of the supply, distribution and use of personal protective equipment during pandemics 9. Pandemics, health equity and the social determinants of health 10. Pandemics: Managing Psychosocial Dimensions for the Public Good 11. Why health economics input and other economic consideration are necessary when managing pandemics 12. Curriculum change and teaching innovations in health sciences: An essential requirement in the era of pandemics 13. eHealth in the era of pandemics 14. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Management of COVID-19. The Gauteng Department of Health, a showcase 15. The development of vaccines and immunological therapies in pandemics 16. Epidemiology, diagnostics and surveillance: Applications during pandemics 17. COVID-19 in South Africa: Lessons from implementing a new national hospital surveillance platform 18. Mental health, psychiatric disease, and COVID-19 in urban South Africa 19. Pandemics and primary health care 20. Pandemics and critical care 21. Pandemics and management of infectious diseases 22. Pandemics and paediatrics 23. Provision of maternal and reproductive healthcare services during pandemics 24. Pandemics and the surgical disciplines About the editors: Ames Dhai, a member of the Academy of Science South Africa is Founder and Past Director of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics at the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences, Visiting Professor of Bioethics and Health Law at the Wits School of Clinical Medicine and Specialist Ethicist at the Office of the President of the South African Medical Research Council. She is a leading authority in Bioethics both internationally and locally. Daynia Ballot, currently head of School of Clinical Medicine at Wits University is a neonatologist with a special interest in neonatal research in South Africa, particularly in neonatal sepsis, determinants of survival in very low birth weight infants and the neurodevelopmental outcome of high-risk newborns. She is an NRF-rated researcher. Martin Veller, a vascular surgeon, is past dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of the Witwatersrand. His leadership roles include that of previous Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery, head of the Division of Vascular Surgery and President of the World Federation of Vascular Societies.
