eBook - ePub
The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge
About this book
The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Dilemma provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest pubic health system in the United States, one that served the hardest hit neighborhoods in New York City. The book offers a roadmap to guide healthcare systems and their providers in the event of future pandemics. Readers will learn from healthcare providers at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City about surge staffing and level loading, along with tips from the ED and ICUs on how to respond to an unprecedented influx of inpatients.
- Clarifies the scientific knowledge around COVID-19
- Provides a multidisciplinary analysis involving biology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, and statistics relating to COVID-19
- Focuses on the need to invest and develop the bioeconomy as the basis of a new global and integrated health system, pulling together conservation, resource economics, and preventive and curative medicine
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Yes, you can access The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge by Vincenzo Atella,Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Biology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Biography
- Introduction
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 : The origins of infections: Some basic concepts
- Chapter 2 : Meaning and dynamics of epidemics
- Chapter 3 : How did we manage the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Chapter 4 : How did we contain the virus: contact tracing, social distancing, and vaccines
- Chapter 5 : Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics
- Chapter 6 : COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?
- Chapter 7 : The effects on the economic systems
- Chapter 8 : The effects on healthcare systems and health status
- Chapter 9 : What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?
- Chapter 10 : Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprint: A new ‘One-Health’ perspective
- Chapter 11 : How to manage the risk of new pandemics
- Chapter 12 : Epilog
- Appendix A : The epidemiological models
- References
- List of acronyms
- Alphabetical index
- Author index
- Q