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Society is facing a global pandemic, causing millions of deaths and hundreds of millions of infections. The importance of vaccination to face COVID-19 is decisive in the fight against the virus. However, many people have decided not to get vaccinated, ruining public health policy. The objective of this article is to apply knowledge about behavioral economics in the explanation of the behavior of those who decide not to be vaccinated, as well as the use of decision architecture and nudges for the design of behavioral interventions. The methodology used was qualitative, supported by bibliographic search and content analysis, with theoretical methods such as historical-logical analysis and deductive and hypothetical analysis. Behavioral economics has been used to modify behaviors associated with chronic non communicable diseases, so it can provide a solution to increase the number of people who are inoculated against the virus. The perception of risk and uncertainty, the amount of information and social pressure are identified as factors that influence the decision, as well as various heuristics and cognitive biases. The design of behavioral interventions should employ nudges in the decision architecture, starting from the "simple, attractive, social and timely" methodology as an opportunity to increase the number of people who are vaccinated. Copyright © 2022, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Society is facing a global pandemic, causing millions of deaths and hundreds of millions of infections. The importance of vaccination to face COVID-19 is decisive in the fight against the virus. However, many people have decided not to get vaccinated, ruining public health policy. The objective of this article is to apply knowledge about behavioral economics in the explanation of the behavior of those who decide not to be vaccinated, as well as the use of decision architecture and nudges for the design of behavioral interventions. The methodology used was qualitative, supported by bibliographic search and content analysis, with theoretical methods such as historical-logical analysis and deductive and hypothetical analysis. Behavioral economics has been used to modify behaviors associated with chronic non communicable diseases, so it can provide a solution to increase the number of people who are inoculated against the virus. The perception of risk and uncertainty, the amount of information and social pressure are identified as factors that influence the decision, as well as various heuristics and cognitive biases. The design of behavioral interventions should employ nudges in the decision architecture, starting from the "simple, attractive, social and timely" methodology as an opportunity to increase the number of people who are vaccinated. Copyright © 2022, Editorial Ciencias Medicas. All rights reserved.
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The following research focuses on nature as a subject of special protection in Colombia. The objective is to determine the importance of the environment in the existence and subsistence of human beings, in addition to distinguishing the main problems faced by Colombia in environmental matters. Likewise, through the application of comparative law, other Constitutions that protect the environment and consider nature as a subject of rights are analyzed. However, among the most debated issues during the post-pandemic period is the approval by the national government of projects such as the allocation of pilot tests for fracking and the issuance of environmental licenses for mining exploitation. The aim is to analyze the scope of these governmental decisions from a constitutional and human rights perspective, as well as to contrast the supposed economic benefits that this practice generates for the country, especially as a "strategy" of the Government to solve the economic crisis resulting from the covid-19 pandemic and the transgression of constitutional principles such as precaution, prevention, progressivity and non-regressivity, and risk prevention.
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Since the beginning of 2020, worldwide attention has been being focussed on SARS-CoV-2, the second strain of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus. Although advances in vaccine technology have been made, particularly considering the advent of mRNA vaccines, up to date, no single antigen design can ensure optimal immune response. Therefore, new technologies must be tested as to their ability to further improve vaccines. Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) is one such method showing great promise in different biomedical and industrial fields, including the fight against COVID-19. Of note, available research shows that nsPEF directly damages the cell's DNA, so it is critical to determine if this technology could be able to fragment either viral DNA or RNA so as to be used as a novel technology to produce inactivated pathogenic agents that may, in turn, be used for the production of vaccines. Considering the available evidence, we propose that nsPEF may be used to produce inactivated SARS-CoV-2 viruses that may in turn be used to produce novel vaccines, as another tool to address 20 the current COVID-19 pandemic.Key MessagesViral inactivation by using pulsed electric fields in the nanosecond frequency.DNA fragmentation by a Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF).Opportunity to apply new technologies in vaccine development.
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COVID-19 , Vaccines , COVID-19/prevention & control , Humans , Pandemics , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
The current situation that humanity is experiencing is unsustainable;between economic and social phenomena and the current health crisis, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The present article aims to argue the emergence of new economic knowledge in the current critical situation of the conventional economy and the social reality caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We proceeded with the compilation of information and the relevance of the dominant economic paradigm for the functioning of society in current conditions was analyzed, arriving at general considerations about the need to base a new economic knowledge based on the principles and emerging categories of various areas of economic knowledge that have gained space and academic recognition from the middle of the 20th century.