Considerations for planning COVID-19 treatment services in humanitarian responses

Garry, Sylvia; Abdelmagid, Nada; Baxter, Louisa; Roberts, Natalie; Waroux, Olivier le Polain de; Ismail, Sharif; Ratnayake, Ruwan; Favas, Caroline; Lewis, Elizabeth; Checchi, Francesco

doi:10.1186/s13031-020-00325-6

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“…The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has the potential to cause considerable morbidity and mortality, affecting the people and health care systems globally. 1 Most of the countries followed restrictive measures such as closing cultural events, prohibiting social events, home confinement, and lockdown to prevent disease transmission and to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. 2 To prevent the spread of COVID-19, educational institutions were closed, and online education was implemented.…”

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Body Mass Index, Practice of Physical Activity and Lifestyle of Students During COVID-19 Lockdown

Jalal¹,

Beth²,

Al-Hassan³

et al. 2021

JMDH

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Purpose: Several factors influence the student's physical activity and lifestyle. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown has restricted student's activity and altered their routine lifestyle. This prospective cohort study aimed to determine the significant changes in body mass index (BMI), physical activity, and lifestyle of the students including diet, sleep, and mental health before and during COVID-19 lockdown. Methods: The study participants were 628 students studying bachelor's degree programs, between 18 and 30 years of age, both genders from the university of Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. The lockdown began on 23 March and ended on 21 June 2020 in Saudi Arabia. The students were interviewed before (March 2020) and during (June 2020) lockdown. The structured tool included baseline information of the students, anthropometric data, global physical activity questionnaire (GPAQ), dietary recall, Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), and perceived stress scale (PSP). Chi-square tests were used to associate the baseline information with BMI changes during the lockdown. Results: BMI of the students showed that 32% increased their weight, 22% lost their weight and 46% maintained the same weight during COVID-19 lockdown. The physical activity significantly decreased and sedentary time increased (p = 0.0001). Regarding the lifestyle components, fast and fried food consumption decreased, and calorie intake increased significantly (p = 0.001). Stress level (p = 0.001) significantly decreased, and sleep level (p = 0.001) increased during lockdown. The variables associated with weight changes were the level of students (p < 0.05) and time spent on social media per day (p < 0.0001). Conclusion:Though half of the students maintained the same BMI during the lockdown, students who increased BMI were associated with physical activity and lifestyle. Hence, health awareness on weight maintenance, active physical activities, and a healthy lifestyle must be created among the students, which help in creating and implementing policies in the future.

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Body Mass Index, Practice of Physical Activity and Lifestyle of Students During COVID-19 Lockdown

Jalal¹,

Beth²,

Al-Hassan³

et al. 2021

JMDH

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“…It is clear that the biological risk from SARS-CoV-2, which manifests itself through contact between people, can creep into the productive organizations in which people work. However, there is no doubt that, with the exception of some specific work activities, (such as those carried out in health services and hospitals, where the increase in infection rates in health workers could cause the collapse of the health system and a further worsening of the pandemic) [29,30]; in other cases, far from becoming a specific occupational risk, it is identified as a generic risk. This risk does not derive from the organization set up by the employer and does not necessarily manifest itself in it, but uses the organization and the complex system of personal relationships to manifest itself and spread, even if it comes from outside the organization itself: this is the case of a worker who becomes infected in an environment outside the company and, by going to work there, introduces the virus.…”

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SARS-CoV-2 and the Risk Assessment Document in Italian Work; Specific or Generic Risk Even If Aggravated?

Cirrincione

Rapisarda

Mazzucco

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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In December 2019, several cases of atypical pneumonia were detected in Wuhan city, Hubei province, inland China. The initial outbreak was of considerable size first in China subsequently spread to the rest of the world. Immediately after the epidemic (which according to the World Health Organization had risen to pandemic status), the problem of whether or not to update the occupational risk assessment arose, also considering how the biological risk from SARS CoV-2 should be understood: specific or generic. To this end, we conducted a literature review to identify national health legislation and policies, examining how Italy has addressed the COVID-19 emergency in occupational health planning, in order to develop considerations on the need to update the Risk Assessment Document following the pandemic status. The data that emerged from the review of current legislation allowed us to conclude that the risk from SARS-CoV-2 is in most work activities to be understood as a generic or aggravated generic risk, requiring the employer to apply and control the preventive measures suggested by health authorities to contain the spread of the virus.

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“…Due to the fact that municipal police officers have to perform their tasks (patrolling and walking, performing interventions against persons, etc.) during a pandemic, there is an increased risk of infection with COVID-19, which spreads through the air [ 62 , 63 , 64 ]. This fact is confirmed also by an occupational health risk matrix elaborated for Slovak municipal police agencies.…”

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Occupational Safety of Municipal Police Officers: Assessing the Vulnerability and Riskiness of Police Officers’ Work

Šoltés

Kubás

Zvaková

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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The municipal police agencies increase the safety of a municipality’s citizens and thus increase their quality of life. When performing interventions, municipal police officers may endanger their safety and health. This paper deals with the analysis of the riskiness of municipal police officers working in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic from 2004 to 2019 and the assessment of their occupational safety. The risk analysis was carried out on the basis of a risk matrix and calculations of the probability of attack and injury to municipal police officers. Using the Pearson correlation coefficient, the dependence between the selected variables was investigated. The reliability of this dependence was examined by the determination coefficient. The main result of the paper is the determination of the riskiness category of municipal police officer work based on the assessment of the occupational health protection of officers through statistical indicators of their activities and risk matrix. The results will serve as part of the explanatory memorandum for the proposal of legislative changes in order to increase the occupational health protection of municipal police officers.

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Considerations for planning COVID-19 treatment services in humanitarian responses

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

Body Mass Index, Practice of Physical Activity and Lifestyle of Students During COVID-19 Lockdown

Body Mass Index, Practice of Physical Activity and Lifestyle of Students During COVID-19 Lockdown

SARS-CoV-2 and the Risk Assessment Document in Italian Work; Specific or Generic Risk Even If Aggravated?

Occupational Safety of Municipal Police Officers: Assessing the Vulnerability and Riskiness of Police Officers’ Work

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