COVID‐19, public health, and the politics of prevention

Mykhalovskiy, Eric; French, Martin

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13192

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“…The lockdown 4 transferred the economic burden of preventing the risk of infection onto the urban and rural working population, whose risk of death by accidents and exhaustion and the risk of malnutrition and other infections was obliterated. While the idea of prevention may sound benign, social science research shows that prevention often curtails the liberties of the marginalised to protect the privileged (Mykhalovskiy and French 2020: 5). The very path of primary transmission of COVID-19 after the initial outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan reflects class inequalities.…”

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I: COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of risk: Perspectives on science, state and society in India

Sujatha

2021

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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Health behaviour of the people is said to be shaped by market forces, scientific or religious institutions or the state. It is pertinent to examine the dominant institutions that shape health cultures in any society, at any given point in time. While public health has not been a priority for the Indian state, the COVID-19 pandemic created an unmistakable opportunity for state regulation. It is the argument of this article that the state has been central to the framing of the COVID-19 pandemic and the identification of relevant interventions, such that the borderline between the political and medical is blurred. The influence of these institutional decisions on the health behaviour of the people indicates that compliant health behaviour is a symbolic resource for the state in societies like India, irrespective of whether the government actually delivers on its health care delivery.

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I: COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of risk: Perspectives on science, state and society in India

Sujatha

2021

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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“…El fortalecimiento de la salud pública ha sido el pilar para enfrentar la pandemia por Covid-19. Es en ella en donde se fundamentan y crean todas las decisiones que toman los gobernantes en cuanto a prevención, diagnóstico, tratamiento e inmunización en enfermedades como esta 3 . Análisis desde la óptica de salud pública permiten recomendar medidas como el aislamiento obligatorio o como el uso obligatorio de tapabocas, que con el tiempo han demostrado ser efectivas en la prevención de la enfermedad 3 .…”

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Uso de la plataforma MAIA® (Medical Artificial Intelligence Aid) para el ajuste de red de servicios durante la pandemia COVID-19 en el departamento de Magdalena, Colombia

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Borja

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Objetivo: Describir el uso de la inteligencia artificial para el ajuste de la red de servicios durante la pandemia Covid-19 en el departamento de Magdalena, Colombia. Métodos: Se adaptó la plataforma digital MAIA ® para la extracción de casos Covid-19 de las diferentes instituciones de salud del departamento. Se utilizo inteligencia artificial para soportar la toma de decisiones de red. Se realizaron encuestas de experiencia de usuario para la plataforma “MAIA DATA CRUE CENTRO REGULACIÓN DE URGENCIAS Y EMERGENCIAS” (MAIA DATA CRUE) diseñada por MEDZAIO. Resultados: 58 instituciones de salud de 27 municipios de Magdalena se encuentran usando la plataforma digital MAIA, con una utilización diaria de 100%, con extracción de información cada 12 horas y funcionamiento 24/7. Se han recibido 1200 registros, que han servido para consolidación de información viva, con la cual se han tomado decisiones diarias en salud por parte del CRUE. El 100% de los encuestados esta de acuerdo en seguir usando esta herramienta. Conclusión: La adaptación y el uso de plataformas digitales como MAIA DATA CRUE, es una estrategia de epidemiología digital para la gestión inteligente de enfermedades. Este artículo demuestra la importancia de herramientas digitales soportadas por inteligencia artificial para optimizar las capacidades de respuesta de los sistemas de salud.

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“…Reiss (2020) discusses that COVID-19 provides students with an opportunity to see how science, politics, ethics and economics interrelate, and broaden their understanding on the implications that COVID-19 has on different society levels. First, according to Mykhalovskiy and French (2020), COVID-19 is a crisis on the public health, so policy makers have introduced the notion of the "politics of prevention" as an attempt to reduce the likelihood of future harms. Second, as COVID-19 poses an extraordinary global health threat, so people need to take the vaccine; therefore, many ethical issues related to vaccination are raised (Mykhalovskiy & French, 2020).…”

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“…First, according to Mykhalovskiy and French (2020), COVID-19 is a crisis on the public health, so policy makers have introduced the notion of the "politics of prevention" as an attempt to reduce the likelihood of future harms. Second, as COVID-19 poses an extraordinary global health threat, so people need to take the vaccine; therefore, many ethical issues related to vaccination are raised (Mykhalovskiy & French, 2020). The arising human challenge studies that evaluate the vaccine safety and efficacy still involve risks on the participants, so Jamrozik and Selgelid (2020) warn that there is a need for a consultation with scientific experts and prospective participants in order to determine the extent to which their residual risks are acceptable and ethical.…”

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Teaching about the COVID-19 Pandemic. (c2022)

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The purpose of this research study was to investigate the perceptions and practices of elementary science teachers in Lebanon on teaching about COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its links to science, politics, ethics and economics, can be classified as a socioscientific issue – an open-ended and controversial issue connected to science content. In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching about the current socioscientific issue has become prominent. An emerging field of research recommends that science teachers start educating students about COVID-19; however, it is not clear how teachers perceive teaching about it and what their teaching practices look like inside the science classroom. This study employed a survey design that drew upon a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews as data sources. The target population constituted 299 elementary science teachers. Participants were recruited using the snowball sampling technique. They completed a questionnaire comprising eighteen Likert-type questions. Next, follow-up, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a random sample of 20 participants. The questionnaire was analyzed quantitatively through the use of descriptive statistics. Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) was calculated to examine the relationship between the two variables of the study: perceptions and practices. The transcribed interview responses were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis and triangulated with the quantitative analysis from the questionnaires. The findings of this study revealed that elementary science teachers have a strong belief in the importance of teaching about COVID-19 and in its role for enhancing scientific literacy. The results showed that teaching about COVID-19 is not part of the current teaching practices for most science teachers. Although this study is limited to elementary science teachers in Lebanon, the findings raise new questions for future research. Recommendations are provided to science educators, policy-makers and curriculum designers.

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COVID‐19, public health, and the politics of prevention

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

I: COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of risk: Perspectives on science, state and society in India

I: COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of risk: Perspectives on science, state and society in India

Uso de la plataforma MAIA® (Medical Artificial Intelligence Aid) para el ajuste de red de servicios durante la pandemia COVID-19 en el departamento de Magdalena, Colombia

Teaching about the COVID-19 Pandemic. (c2022)

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