Redefining public health and sustainable economy: Covid-19 from pandemic to endemic

Abstract

With the recent claim that the maintenance of population immunity will not depend on continued vaccinations but on the endemic presence of the virus, the proper understanding of the value of public health allows us to configure human living conditions as it thrives in a world where the novel Corona Virus Disease in 2019 (Covid-19) becomes endemic. World leaders and economic managers need to redefine public health not just as a means that enables economic productivity but as a substantially primordial goal—an end that every functional society must achieve via living an economically sustainable lifestyle. This paper argues that economic and societal sustainability thus must be framed and delimited within the human ecological boundary—a crucial viewpoint that could sustain public health amid a Covid-19 endemic world while preventing another viral pandemic from occurring.

E-learning in higher education institutions during COVID-19 pandemic: current and future trends through bibliometric analysis

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Vacinação contra influenza em idosos no contexto da pandemia da COVID-19

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Caught and taught: a call to improve digital professionalism among medical students

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated abrupt changes to medical education, in particular the adoption of virtual methods of teaching and learning. 1 With an anticipated state of viral endemicity, however, many of these changes, initially implemented as interim measures, may themselves become “endemic.” 2 This raises the consideration of their wider implications on education and healthcare, which may have been blind spots when stopgap measures were enforced at the height of the pandemic. In this letter, we focus on one such area—personal conduct and professionalism in the digital space.…”