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Cloud computing is an evolving technology to maintain the database of any system. Data collected from any part of the system will be transferred to the cloud, and it will be retrieved at any point in time. It plays a vital role in biomedical applications, where a huge number of patient records are needed to be maintained. In recent years, we faced an unexpected pandemic condition due to COVID-19 diseases. Routine human life has turned upside down due to it. This disease affects various age groups of people, and the number of patients affected is also growing exponentially, day after day, across the globe. The treatment for this critical illness is not the same for patients of different age levels. Aged people may be already affected by various diseases, whereas middle-aged and children may not be. COVID-19 is getting more vulnerable, and the death rate is increasing. Diagnosing this disease is a tedious task for doctors. Symptoms collected from patients of various ages and the treatment methods offered to them should be appropriately maintained. This may ease out ways to cure the upcoming affected patients. In this paper, we present an overall review of various cloud-based electronic health care recording methods that are currently available. Personal health records (PHRs) are stored on a remote cloud server using these approaches. The selective information will be shared when needed by a physician for diagnosis and treatment. Many new cloud-based systems are developed, which have more secure and safe data transfer compared to the conventional client–server model. Security is the most concerned parameter for the emerging cloud technologies as PHRs are to be maintained confidentially. The various existing cloud-based models are reviewed in the aforementioned aspect. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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Civil society and community groups are active players in the COVID-19 response, providing support, advice and information where government reach is poor. Yet most governments have not managed to bring civil society's perspectives, insights, and experiences into the COVID-19 response in a systematic way. If the world is to 'build forward better', more regular and systematised government-civil society engagement will need to underpin a shift towards more inclusive health governance. Doing so successfully will require heavy investments in capacity-building for government actors to value and feel comfortable managing and sustaining participatory spaces and in skills to bring forward the kind of governance needed to build resilience against the next pandemic.
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Introductions: To meet immunization goals, two things must happen: effective vaccines must be delivered through a well-controlled cold chain environment, and maximum utilization must be accomplished. In both developed and developing countries, there is a lack of knowledge about cold chain management. Maintaining vaccine effectiveness is currently one of the most challenging problems facing African immunization initiatives, particularly Ethiopia. But there is very less data related to cold chain management in this part of the world done before. Methods and materials: An institution based cross sectional study was been conducted. A total of 502 participants those that serve in federal health care facilities in, West Guji zone, Oromia, Southern Ethiopia were included. A semi-structured questioner was used to process the results. Epi Info was used to enter and clean data and the files were exported to SPSS. Using a logistic regression model with a 0.05 degree of significance, the adjusted odds ratio with its 95 percent confidence interval was incorporated to recognize the relationship and classify related variables. Conclusion: In previous studies in Ethiopia, health professional’s awareness of cold chain management remained limited. Knowing the available Knowledge among health workers in vaccination centers in and around West Guji zone is critical, particularly in this pandemic where a COVID-19 Vaccine is urgently needed. This study is being conducted to identify this region of the world’s preparedness for managing the possible vaccine that will be available in the coming days. © 2021, Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad. All rights reserved.
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The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the need for robust governance in health. Advice to political leaders on COVID-19 strategies was largely provided by specialist experts or those with an established relationship with government bodies, reflecting a default governance mode which is still not inclusive. Populations, communities, and civil society were largely left out;yet, inclusive dialogue initiatives are crucial to building trust and policy adherence. Social participation, although not novel in theory, is innovative in practice as decision-makers still struggle with the 'how' of fostering health democracy and bringing people's voice into emergency responses and health policies.