COVID-19 and Maintaining Public Health within Student Community: Moral Difficulties Faced by Students

Abstract

The research was aimed to develop a set of recommendations on maintaining public health within student community. For the practical achievement of the research goal, there were studied: students' self-perceived health status and their physical and moral reaction to COVID-19; their thoughts while onlooking relatives' reaction in the conditions of self-isolation, and students' opinion on new interaction with tutors in frame of online education. This part of the research was carried out from November, 2020 till May, 2021. Respondents were the students of South region of Ukraine, who study disciplines with some risk for public health system, namely, future seafarers and medical workers. In our work we drew on theoretical and practical conclusions made by the American, European and Ukrainian researchers of public health system and of cooperation between a teacher and a student in the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical aspect devoted to specification of such concepts as "public health", "public health within student community", is connected with the practical one, and allows to elaborate the unique research tooling and to reflect its components during a sociological poll with the help of questionnaire analysis. Application part of work is based on an empirical social research of transformations of students' feelings and opinions under the influence of pandemic, drawing on the analysis of moral difficulties that the students of higher educational institution faced in terms of sudden and drastic change to a remote format of learning being fully separated from an educational group. Recommendations and conclusions are made by the authors in order to safeguard public health within student community.

Health as an enduring value asset and resource factor of social wealth

“…Extensive transformational changes in society since the beginning of the 20th century and continuing in the 21st have contributed to new opportunities for the development of civilization and had a significant impact on the state of health of the individual. In the new realities of Coronavirus Uncertainty (COVID-19) [10], health is an essential value asset of the optimal prerequisite for the realization of life goals and objectives by humans, including in professional activities [11].…”

“…Skvortsova (Minister of Health of the Russian Federation from May 21, 2012, to January 21, 2020), "the paradigm of today's healthcare is the transition from a passive lifestyle to a proactive society". In its comprehensive understanding, medicine requires the broadest possible constructive modernization changes [10,18], taking into account the transformations that have taken place over the past decades -both in scientific, technological, and socio-economic aspects [19]. Effective work in this direction is possible with constructive consolidation of government, business, and responsible attitude to the health of the average citizen, taking into account factors of the external and internal environmental background of social system functioning in improving the economic status of public wealth through the achievement of health saving as a necessary holistic category.…”

Empowering the Critical Role of Public Health Center on Communicable Disease Prevention and Control of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

“…Based on prioritization, the non-referral public health center will be more focused and have a greater priority to carry out preventive promotive efforts for the community. Promotive and preventive efforts can also be made to detect non-communicable diseases early in the community and to disseminate information about healthy living management [19,20]. In addition, clarity is needed regarding the main tasks of the functions and powers of supervision of the implementation of regulations by the health office, the Ministry of Health and professional organizations.…”

Overview of COVID-19 Surveillance in Amuntai Selatan Public Health Center

“…Over time, PCR Services opened in Hulu Sungai Utara Regency to facilitate early detection or diagnosis. 24 Although the nasopharyngeal swab is the definitive test by WHO recommendations, Indonesia makes various adjustments as PCR queues increase in various regions. 25 Hulu Sungai Utara is included in criterion B, so diagnosis and screening using Rapid Antigen are needed.…”