Community informatics for sustainable management of pandemics in developing countries: A case study of COVID-19 in Nigeria

Eze, Peter; Ezenkwu, Chinedu Pascal; Etteh, Chinedu Casmir

doi:10.1016/j.jemep.2021.100632

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“…The various parameter such as age group, education, nature of family, population density plays a significant role while doing a socioeconomic assessment. Moreover, it has a disastrous impact on the lower-income group of society, social distancing is a worldwide strategy adopted that has ensured that it is possible to contain COVID-19 [58] , [59] . A highly populated area ensures that social distancing in the urban sector is quite difficult.…”

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COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand, India: Environmental recovery or degradation?

Nandan

Siddiqui

Singh

et al. 2021

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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The human coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is now a global pandemic. Personal hygiene such as hand-washing, the use of personal protective equipment, and social distancing via local and national lockdowns are used to reduce the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns may have significant impacts on environmental quality and ergonomics. However, limited studies exists on the impacts of COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns on environmental quality and ergonomics in low-income settings. Therefore, the present study investigated the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on socioeconomics, ergonomics and environment (water quality, air quality and noise) in Uttrakhand, India. Approximately 55% of respondents experienced headaches, and the other common health-related issue was back pain, with 45% of respondents having problems with their backs. Water and air quality significantly improved during the lockdown relative to the pre-lockdown period, but was observed to return to their previous characteristics afterwards. Lockdowns significant increased the concentration of indoor air pollutants while noise pollution levels significantly declined. In summary, lockdowns have adverse impacts on ergonomics, resulting in work-related human health risks. The impacts of lockdowns on environmental quality are mixed: temporary improvements on water and air quality, and noise reduction were observed, but indoor air quality deteriorated. Therefore, during lockdowns there is a need to minimize the adverse environmental and ergonomic impacts of lockdowns while simultaneously enhancing the beneficial impacts.

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COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand, India: Environmental recovery or degradation?

Nandan

Siddiqui

Singh

et al. 2021

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Religious and cultural interpretations of artificial insemination in South-West Nigeria

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AffiongMkperedem²,

Arisukwu³

et al. 2023

AJOG Global Reports

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Research Progress and Improvement Ideas of Anti-Epidemic Resilience in China’s Urban Communities

Cui

Zou

et al. 2022

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In the post-epidemic era, China’s urban communities are at the forefront of implementing the whole chain of accurate epidemic prevention and control. However, the uncertainty of COVID-19, the loopholes in community management and people’s overly optimistic judgment of the epidemic have led to the frequent rebound of the epidemic and serious consequences. Existing studies have not yet formed a panoramic framework of community anti-epidemic work under the concept of resilience. Therefore, this article first summarizes the current research progress of resilient communities from three perspectives, including ideas and perspectives, theories and frameworks and methods and means, and summarizes the gap of the current research. Then, an innovative idea on the epidemic resilience of urban communities in China is put forward: (1) the evolution mechanism of community anti-epidemic resilience is described through the change law of dynamic networks; (2) the anti-epidemic resilience of urban communities is evaluated or predicted through the measurement criteria; (3) a simulation platform based on Multi-Agent and dynamic Bayesian networks simulates the interactive relationship between “epidemic disturbance–cost constraint-–epidemic resilience”; (4) the anti-epidemic strategies are output intelligently to provide community managers with decision-making opinions on community epidemic prevention and control.

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Community informatics for sustainable management of pandemics in developing countries: A case study of COVID-19 in Nigeria

Cited by 3 publications

References 24 publications

COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand, India: Environmental recovery or degradation?

COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand, India: Environmental recovery or degradation?

Religious and cultural interpretations of artificial insemination in South-West Nigeria

Research Progress and Improvement Ideas of Anti-Epidemic Resilience in China’s Urban Communities

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