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ABSTRACT: Musculoskeletal conditions are a major contributor to global morbidity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians needed to rapidly meet the evolving requirements of their patients, which resulted in an increased adoption of telehealth services. This area needs more research, as there is currently a paucity of studies, and telehealth practices are continuing to advance and evolve. This study subsequently aims to evaluate the ethics, health economics, and accuracy of current musculoskeletal telehealth services. This article combines three original studies; a telehealth accuracy systematic review; a cost-effectiveness scoping review; and a biopsychosocial narrative review. These studies were combined into one article. This article concludes that telehealth services achieve an average agreement with in-person assessments of 62% for the knee and 31% for the shoulder and that telerehabilitation services incur average cost savings per patient of £38.57 but that these savings are primarily a result of a reduced need to travel.
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COVID-19 , Telemedicine , Telerehabilitation , COVID-19/epidemiology , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Humans , Pandemics , Telemedicine/methodsABSTRACT
The Uttarakhand State, known for its Himalayan Mountains, is a territory in Northern India that is extremely vulnerable to earthquakes, landslides, and floods. Currently, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, India is facing the dual challenge of containing a pandemic and responding to natural disasters. This situation can have a negative impact on the health and the economic development of the region, leading to a long-lasting humanitarian crisis that can disrupt even more, the already overburdened health service. In addition, it can pose serious threats to the wellbeing of the population as it complicates physical distancing and other COVID-19 prevention measures. It is of utmost importance to analyse the impact of floods, landslides, and COVID-19 pandemic on the health system of the Uttarakhand State, and how these crises interact with each other.
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COVID-19 has become a global public health obstacle. This disease has caused negligence on mental health institutions, decreased trust in the healthcare system and traditional and religious beliefs, and has created a widespread stigma on people living with mental health illness, specifically in Nigeria. The increase of COVID-19 cases that have exhausted the healthcare system in Nigeria have brought further negligence to people living with mental disorder, thus increasing the burden of the disease on these patients. Overall, this article considerably highlighted the need for equal accessibility to healthcare resources, as well as the requirement of proper attention and care for mental health patients in Nigeria. This article discusses the challenges that surfaced because of the COVID-19 pandemic on people living with mental illness and their implications, as well as suggesting necessary actions and recommendations.
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COVID-19 , Mental Disorders , Humans , Mental Disorders/epidemiology , Mental Disorders/therapy , Nigeria/epidemiology , Pandemics , Social StigmaABSTRACT
Abstract Dengue fever (DF) is a significant public health problem in the African continent. The primary prevention strategy against the disease is vaccination and entomological control of vectors;however, implementing such a strategy in several countries in the continent is far below what is necessary to control the disease. The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic further aggravated this situation and negatively impacted these measures, mainly the coverage of vaccination campaigns, due to restrictive measures to control the disease. Therefore, the most significant risk is that the incidence of DF in the continent will increase even more in the coming years, as a reflection of the negative impact of the pandemic on the control of the disease. To prevent another public health crisis, immediate and multidisciplinary approaches are required to address the epidemiological control of DF in African countries.