Framework: Research on health determinants reports that health literacy has a significant impact on the quality of life and well-being of individuals (Kottke, Stiefel & Pronk, 2016) organizations (Brach et al., 2012) and communities (when societies go through adverse conditions, for example through an economic, financial crisis, or even the crisis “COVID-19” whose consequences are still to be determined in the effects on the quality of life of individuals. Health literacy is considered as one of...

Public Health  Sociology  Health Policy 

Bangladesh has achieved tremendous success in health sector. Despite remarkable achievements in health security is still a concern for the nation. Most of the people still live in village and grope to receive better health services around them. However, they don’t have scope to consult with anticipated doctors aside from coming in any city. On the other hand, medical expenses are quite high that puts pressure on them. This article explores Japanese’ experience in designing and implementing effec...

Public Health  Health Policy 

It has been empirically demonstrated that humor can positively affect psychological and physical well-being, and that sense of humor is a major component of high-hope individuals . Sharing humor contributes to feelings of togetherness, closeness, and friendship and promotes positive communication in prevention, perception, and perspective of results. To assess the perception of health professionals about the use of communication competences, among which, the use of humor in the therapeutic relat...

Public Health  Sociology  Nursing  Psychology 

The continuing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) produced via severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Even if the main transmission pathways of SARS-CoV-2 are inhalation from person-to-person and aerosol/droplet transmission, it is proved that the viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) could occur in wastewater, proposing the necessity to better comprehend wastewater as possible sources of epidemiologica...

Environmental Chemistry  Public Health 

At COVID-19 time, as surface water and urban wastewater will constantly carry microbial pathogens, pathogens should be eliminated at least to degrees that do not have an effect on public health. Among the pathogen groups observed in water, viruses constitute the biggest danger since they frequently appear in much bigger levels and possess much greater infectivity than bacteria and parasitic protozoa. This work highlights the viruses especially in terms of composition and behavior in ecosystems a...

Public Health  Chemical Engineering & Technology 

Objective: To predict the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in China’s future elderly population, and to provide reference for the formulation and implementation of relevant public health policies in China. Methods: A computer search of domestically published literatures with Alzheimer’s disease risk factors data was used to conduct a meta-analysis of Alzheimer’s disease epidemiological studies that met the inclusion criteria to calculate the Alzheimer’s disease of the elderly in different ...

Public Health 

Ten years ago, I was asked by a health agency about my opinion concerning the guidelines for drinking water quality. I suggested fixing the maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) to zero ng/L, once and for all for each pollutant. Such a proposition is founded on the fact that regularly the MAC is lowered following some considerations like 1) the lethal dose determination and toxicity studies, 2) the progress recorded in analytical methods and water treatment technologies and, 3) the technical-ec...

Public Health  Chemical Engineering & Technology 

Hospitals are significant sources of contaminants derived from the diagnostic, laboratory, and research activities as well as medicine excretion by patients, which comprise active components of drugs and metabolite, chemicals, residues of pharmaceuticals, radioactive markers, iodinated contrast media, etc. Discharging hospital wastewater, especially those without convenient treatment could reveal the public in danger of infection. Particularly, below the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pande...

Public Health  Chemical Engineering & Technology 

Excess body fat is associated with impaired physical and socio-emotional health outcomes. There is limited evidence on stigma and discrimination associated with overweight and obesity in developing country settings like Ghana where the rate of overweight is rapidly increasing. This current study explored the experiences of obesity-related stigma and discrimination among adult female vendors in the Kaneshie Market in Accra, Ghana. Employing a mixed concurrent method, both qualitative and quantita...

Public Health 

Background: The acceptable challenges at ongoing comorbidities burdens at the good quality of basics stratify the rate of given 6 tops surveys of common infections in Health associated infections (HAIs) adjusting the population-based study disabling the modeling of confirmed HAIs risk factors. Method and Findings: The additional pneumonia-related health care factors including surgical infection site, Clostridium difficile, neonatal-sepsis, catheter-associated UTI and bloodstream are observed in ...

Public Health