The Sociocultural and Economic Barriers to Self-Care Culture for COVID-19 Control in Developing Societies: The Case of Iran

There are natural and unnatural problems for human beings. Communicable and incommunicable diseases are common issues in human life. The prevalence of COVID-19 since December 2019 is an ongoing and mysterious danger, and its control is a critical concern. According to the traits and dangerous consequences of COVID-19, self-care plays an inevitable role in its control. This chapter has reviewed the sociocultural and economic barriers to self-care for COVID-19 control in developing societies with an emphasis on Iran. Using the documentary method, databases about concepts, research, theories, and economic, social, and cultural indexes were reviewed. The most used databases were PubMed, Magiran, Noormags, Google Scholar, Sid, Iran Statistic Center, Trading Economics, and World Meters. Reviewing data on life expectancy, mortality, and other indexes among developed and less developed societies, the most barriers for developing societies such as Iran were introduced. Findings showed that the most important barriers are short-term (economic factors), medium-term (social factors), and long-term (cultural factors) barriers. In each time/subject period, two levels, micro and macro, are presented. The macro-economic barriers are economic poverty, economic recession, and inflation. The micro-economic barriers are malnutrition, lack of financial ability to use health-care facilities, lack of living facilities, and the work time in epidemiological conditions. The macro-social barriers are social inequality, lack of attention to prevention, weakness of social organization, and family size in less developed areas while the micro-social barriers are a weakness of education and socialization, and unstable job conditions. The macro-cultural barriers are fate-orientation, weakness of preventive insight, application of common beliefs, low social trust, social traps, and traditional habitus in health care while the micro-cultural barriers are poverty of knowledge and living awareness, self-medication belief, self-healthy imagination, misunderstanding of disease risks, social indifference, and social irresponsibility. As a result, cultural factors are the most important barriers to the self-care culture for the control of pandemic diseases such as COVID-19. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

An Introduction to Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19: Medical Perspectives and Socioeconomic Dynamics

This edited volume on the biopolitics and shock economy of COVID-19 crisis embraces a wide spectrum of topics such as shock economy, medical perspectives on COVID-19, application of geospatial technology, infectivity, immunity, and severity of the disease, as well as ontology of the disease emergence as important factors for adoption of relevant biopolitical measures, sociocultural obstacles, COVID-19-induced transaction costs, social support and resilience of inhabitants of marginalized areas, as well as business resilience factors, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation. Through each chapter of this book, the authors, with their expertise in the theme they picked, have attempted to unfold some emerging aspects in the COVID-19 crisis which could benefit not only the academics but also the institutional, social, economic, developmental, and health policy-makers as well as the health practitioners on the ground. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

COVID-19 study under fire

RESEARCH INTEGRITY ;A study on the effects of the malaria drug hydroxychloro-quine and the antibiotic azithromycin in COVID-19 patients, led by the controversial French microbiologist Didier Raoult, is drawing criticism from medical groups. Raoult denies that the study flouted regulations, saying it was a retrospective analysis of patient data, not a clinical trial. The 30,000 patient study prescribed drugs long after they had been shown to be ineffective and didn't adhere to regulations, critics wrote. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Science is the property of American Association for the Advancement of Science and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Tackling Challenges of COVID-19: An Assessment of the Convergence- Divergence Debates from the Global South-India

The World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced COVID-19 as a global pandemic in March 2020 which in effect transformed the society, economy, the politics and indeed our everyday life. Such a transformation of power geometries across all manner of spaces and their geographies disrupted the finite balance and wellbeing and continues to displace norms of equanimity, sanity, and hope amidst the catalogue of errors, blunders and inactivity. In India the first COVID-19 case was registered on January 30, 2020. The response of 29 States and 7 Union Territories of India has varied depending on their health, community, law and order and legislative infrastructure. This chapter will attempt to situate an analysis of coronavirus pandemic within the demographic transition framework of India. We examine the critical role of civil societies across the states, divergence of policies and practices relating to social distancing, contact tracing, and differential Public Health Agency infrastructures in operation across the States of India. What began as a stigma, followed by populist rhetoric quickly faded into intense struggle for survival even as oxygen, essential medicines and of course hospital beds became a premium in the most affluent parts of any given city. The grim reaper became a great leveller cutting across socially constructed boundaries of class, gender, age, caste and religion. The management of this pandemic and the established protocols for treatment remain tentative even as we learn lessons from yet another mutant strain. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Remote Working and Coworking Spaces in Germany—Narrative Literature Analyses

The COVID-19 pandemic has been hit the whole German society and with that the way of working as well as the trend of coworking, as it happened similarly in other western societies. With information about governmental measurements, the world of work, mobility and transportation, people's behavior, companies' strategies, the real estate market, and changes in new working spaces from different sources this article creates a narration of immediate impacts, medium-term and long-run effects. Finally, this article aims to draw potential coming changes and further trends for coworking spaces. © 2023, The Author(s).

The War in Ukraine: How Putin's War in Ukraine Has Ruined Russia

The first two months of war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state. Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet empire, Russians are being dragged back in time to when Soviet citizens lived isolated from the rest of the world, in a bubble of failed ideology and misinformation. That system fell apart under just the kind of autarky and autocracy that Putin hopes to reimpose. Just as the Soviet system collapsed, Putin is also failing Russia, erasing the gains of the postcommunist period in a feckless attempt to rebuild a doomed empire.

Salutogenesis for Thriving Societies

This chapter is this handbook's ‘grand finale', addressing the potential of salutogenesis to nurture thriving societies. The handbook's editors reflect on the advancement of salutogenesis concerning theory development, applying the salutogenic model in community settings and helping society tackle crises such as COVID-19. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s);first edition published by Springer International Publishing, 2017, 2022 This book is an open access publication.

Motivational deficits in the promotion of public health? A matter for reflection on religion and COVID-19

The paper is aimed to analyze if religion plays a relevant role in health promotion and, thus, if it can be included in the interpretations on the positive role of religions in the public sphere. In this regard, Habermas refers to a crisis of meaning in secular societies that has been caused, among other reasons, by individualistic and selfish lifestyles that fail to encourage a moral action when it goes beyond the law. In contrast, it seems that the strong social ties of religious communities foster solidarity and altruistic attitudes, which could be interpreted as a sign of greater social cohesion;but is it really like that? Pandemic and its consequences help to assess whether the religious element (analyzed as belief, belonging, bonding and behavior) has created positive attitudes in the face of the health challenges (i.e., compliance with rules of social distance, vaccination) or, on the contrary, the motivational deficits of some societies have to do with other factors not related to the religious/secular dichotomy.

Ethical Imperative in the Face of the Digital Transformation of Education.

Pedagogical practices incapable of ethically mediating learning are inoperative in the face of the many contemporary social crises. Thus, the health emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic make it possible to identify the humanizing capacity of the instruction plans that meet the ethical request to train, using the multiple resources that information technologies present. Therefore, the research has the purpose of analyzing the digital transformations of higher education supported by pedagogies capable of enabling ethical values for the benefit of equitable societies. It concludes that virtual innovation in training considerably improves skills training;situation that is placed at human service when actions are subordinated to solidarity, dialogic listening, tolerance and respect as an articulator of just societies. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR] Prácticas pedagógicas incapaces de mediar éticamente los aprendizajes son inoperantes ante las muchas crisis sociales contemporáneas. A su vez, las urgencias sanitarias debido a la pandemia por COVID-19 permiten identificar la capacidad humanizante de los planes de instrucción que atienden la solicitud ética de formar, empleando los múltiples recursos que las tecnologías de la información presentan. Por consiguiente, la investigación tiene el propósito de analizar las transformaciones digitales de la educación superior sustentadas en pedagogías capaces de habilitar valores éticos en beneficio de sociedades equitativas. Concluye que con la innovación virtual en la formación mejora considerablemente la capacitación de competencias;situación que se coloca al servicio humano cuando las acciones se supeditan a la solidaridad, la escucha dialógica, la tolerancia y respecto como articuladora de sociedades justas. (Spanish) [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Revista de Filosofía is the property of Revista de Filosofia-Universidad del Zulia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Challenges of Post-Pandemic University Education Reflection on the Peruvian Educational Reality.

The research has the objective of analyzing the democratic provisions of pedagogies ethically committed to social welfare;therefore, consider the post-COVID-19 pandemic challenges of college education. It is a bibliographical study of diachronic character from the deductive rationalist approach;considers global conditions, emphasizing Peruvian sociocultural contexts. It recommends the use of virtual resources to operate mixed educational models. It insists on the collective appropriation of educational facts as a dialogical and supportive mediation of human relations, provided that overcoming current social crises implies joint commitments in favor of the validity of human rights in the face of the impositions of contemporary hegemonies. It concludes that the possibility of justice implies instruction as intercultural dialogue, a possibility that requires the presence of the cultural values of otherness. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR] La investigación tiene el objetivo de analizar las disposiciones democráticas de las pedagogías éticamente comprometidas con el bienestar social;por lo cual, considera los desafíos postpandemia por COVID-19 de la educación universitaria. Es un estudio bibliográfico de carácter diacrónico desde el enfoque racionalista deductivo;considera las condiciones globales, haciendo énfasis en los contextos socioculturales peruanos. Recomienda el empleo de los recursos virtuales para operar modelos educativos mixtos. Insiste en la apropiación colectiva de los hechos de instrucción como mediación dialógica y solidaria de las relaciones humanas, siempre que la superación de las crisis sociales actuales implica compromisos de conjunto a favor de la vigencia de los derechos humanos ante las imposiciones de las hegemonías contemporáneas. Concluye que la posibilidad de justicia implica instrucción en cuanto diálogo intercultural, posibilidad que requiere la presencialidad de los valores culturales de la otredad. (Spanish) [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Revista de Filosofía is the property of Revista de Filosofia-Universidad del Zulia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Simulation, Science, and Stakeholders: Challenges and Opportunities for Modelling Solutions to Societal Problems

The article outlines an approach to computer modelling called "human simulation,"whose development has been explicitly oriented towards addressing societal problems through transdisciplinary efforts involving stakeholders, change agents, policy professionals, subject matter experts, and computer scientists. It describes the steps involved in the creation and exploration of the "insight space"of policy-oriented artificial societies, which include both analysing societal problems and designing societal solutions. A case study is provided, based on an (ongoing) research project studying "emotional contagion"related to misinformation, stigma, and anxiety in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with lessons learned about some of the challenges and opportunities facing scientists and stakeholders trying to simulate solutions to complex societal problems. © 2023 F. LeRon Shults.

Old and new rituals throughout the covid-19 pandemic

This chapter shows how rituals are places, hubs of communication and negotiation, but they are also sources of monetary exchange as soon as a ritual is tamed and transformed by the market system. The transhumanist movements have seized upon the particular ritual of death with a philosophical idea derived from religion, which is to establish immortality by making the most perfect copy of a human possible and tofight the idea of death. The decline of traditional rituals seems to be essentially a permanent human search for freedom from taboos and constraints, from everything that seems established, unchangeable and outdated in order to achieve greater individual freedom. Rituals are constantly being reinvented through technology. In contemporary society, there is a desire - sometimes rather clumsy - to create new rituals. The rational, rationalist, Cartesian dominance of our industrial societies seems to favor laws and regulations to the detriment of rituals. © ISTE Ltd 2022.

Remains of Democracy and Pedagogical Opportunities in Post-Pandemic.

The present investigation has the objective of analyzing the challenges of democracy and the pedagogical opportunities in the post-pandemic. It is a bibliographical study of a diachronic nature, from the deductive rationalist approach. Consider the sociocultural and pedagogical contexts before, during and after the health pandemic caused by COVID-19;attending to the social restrictions that accompany the health emergency. It is about taking advantage of opportunities to guarantee useful instruction, to the extent that it guarantees decent and equitable human conditions. Thus, it underlines the ethical co-responsibility as a strength of the instruction plans, since it legitimizes the actions in the recognition of the dignified condition. Limitations become advantages when coexistence is based on equitable relationships;always aimed at evidencing democratic, plural, fair coexistence. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR] La presente investigación tiene el objetivo de analizar los retos de la democracia y las oportunidades pedagógicas en postpandemia. Es un estudio bibliográfico de carácter diacrónico, desde el enfoque racionalista deductivo. Considera los contextos socioculturales y pedagógicos previos, durante y posteriores a la pandemia sanitaria causada por COVID- 19;atendiendo las restricciones sociales que acompañan la emergencia sanitaria. Se trata de aprovechar las oportunidades para garantizar instrucción útil, en la medida que garantiza condiciones humanas dignas y equitativas. Así, subraya la corresponsabilidad ética como fortaleza de los planes de instrucción, toda vez que legitima las acciones en el reconocimiento de la condición digna. Las limitantes se convierten en ventajas cuando las coexistencias se sustentan en relaciones equitativas;siempre encaminadas a evidenciar convivencias democráticas, plurales, justas. (Spanish) [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Revista de Filosofía is the property of Revista de Filosofia-Universidad del Zulia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Recognize and Leap Over the Gaps [Women in Microwaves]

The 2022 IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP 2022) was held in Guangzhou, China, 12-14 December 2022 (see Figure 1). Due to the continuous impact of COVID-19 pandemic, small-size, on-site opening and closing ceremonies were organized in Guangzhou, while all the conference sessions were held online. The special Women in Microwaves (WiM) and Wireless session sponsored by the WiM subcommittee under the IEEE Membership and Geographical Activities of the MTT-S AdCom, was held in the afternoon of 13 December. More than 60 people attended this event, including three invited speakers from Austria, Japan, and Mainland China;six panelists from Mainland China, and some other professionals and graduate students from industries and universities (see Figure 2). © 2000-2012 IEEE.

Critiquing Western Development Paradigms and Theories in the Age of the Coronavirus (COVID-19): An African Perspective

This chapter critiques Western development paradigms that have been utilised by African countries for decades in their quest to develop themselves in the post-colonial era. The former have been touted by Western development institutions and theorists for many years as the most effective modalities for advancing the continent. The discussion argues that Western development paradigms failed to extricate Africa from its inherited underdevelopment, stemming from colonial rule and antecedent imperialistic forays into Africa. In many respects, ‘development' was introduced to Africans as a non-African construct that was superimposed on the continent's superstructures and its various sociopolitical and economic systems. If there is anything that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed to the world, it is how ineffectual Western development tools are for Africa's advancement. The pandemic has also shown that Western development paradigms failed to provide solutions to a plethora of challenges that African countries have encountered for decades and which have been compounded by COVID-19. Furthermore, the neo-liberal economic model that has been promoted by Western development institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which, inter alia, eschews universal social service provision, has been called into question by COVID-19 as tens of thousands of people died from the virus in the West. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Evaluation of the risks associated with the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during a professional football club's training in Brazil

COVID-19 is an infectious disease with respiratory transmission caused by the new coronavirus. Due to the high viral transmissibility, sports activities were severely impacted all over the world and in Brazil football was paralyzed for about four months. The objective of this study was to identify the activities with the highest risk of Covid-19 transmission in a professional soccer club in Rio de Janeiro based on a cross-sectional study with a semi-quantitative emphasis. The results showed that physical training showed a greater number of touches (105) with a high prevalence of hand on the ball (94%). The antibody search found that 24,2% tested positive for IgG during the study. During the training phase, no cases of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between players and staff were identified. It is believed that biosafety measures and the individual and collective commitment of everyone to social isolation and hygiene measures are an important strategy for the viability of sports activities.

Research on Financial Systemic Risk Assessment Algorithm Based on Risk Data Fuzzy Cluster Analysis

The financial industry is a high-risk industry. Once the financial industry risk happen, it will affect the economic development. Ensuring the safe, efficient and steady operation of finance and preventing systemic financial risks are the urgent needs of China's opening up to the outside world and building a well-off society in an all-round way. Stable and efficient economic development is the basis of financial risk prevention and control, which is the inherent requirement of high-quality economic development. Strengthening macro-prudential management has become the core content of financial regulatory reform in major international organizations and economies after the international coronavirus outbreak and preventing systemic financial risks is the fundamental goal of macro-prudential management. This paper takes the assessment and monitoring of China's systemic financial risks as the research object, and proposes an assessment algorithm of systemic financial risks based on risk data fuzzy clustering analysis. The established financial systemic risk measurement method can identify risks to a certain extent, deeply understand the nature, root and key areas of systemic financial risks, and build a long-term mechanism to prevent and resolve systemic financial risks. © 2022 IEEE.

Proposal and Demonstration of Robot Collaboration Architecture Using RSNP

Nowadays, service robots are highly anticipated in an aging society with low birthrates due to a shortage of human workers. Furthermore, COVID-19 avoids daily human communication in person. To utilize service robots in such a society, several types of robots are necessary to cope with the aforementioned society's various problems. Through collaboration with various types of robots, we have proposed and demonstrated an architecture for providing a broader range of services through this study. This architecture eliminates robot interface differences and allows the connection of various robots with a common communication protocol. In the teleoperation experiment, we could connect various types of robots manufactured by different companies using a general-purpose interface unit and we could teleoperate them via the Internet. We also confirmed in the collaboration experiment that the robots can be connected regardless of their functions by managing them according to their functions. Our architecture has verified the function to make collaboration of different types of robots both in teleoperation and collaborative tasks by different robots. In the future, we will conduct experiments to evaluate the practical services that service robots can provide in actual facilities such as shopping malls. © 2023 IEEE.

The uneven distribution of futurity: slow emergencies and the event of COVID-19

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic strains conventional temporal imaginaries through which emergencies are typically understood and governed. Rather than a transparent and linear temporality, a smooth transition across the series event/disruption-response-post-event recovery, the pandemic moves in fits and starts, blurring the boundary between normalcy and emergency. This distended temporality brings into sharp relief other slow emergencies such as racism, poverty, biodiversity loss, and climate change, which inflect how the pandemic is known and governed as an emergency. In this article, we reflect on COVID-19 responses in two settler colonial societies-Australia and the United States-to consider how distinct styles of pandemic responses in each context resonate and dissonate across the racially uneven distribution of futurity that structures liberal order. In each case, the event of COVID-19 has indeed opened a window that reveals multiple slow emergencies;yet in these and other responses this revelation is not leading to meaningful changes to address underlying forms of structural violence. In Australia and the United States, we see how specific slow emergencies-human-induced climate change and anti-Black violence in White supremacist societies, respectively-become intensified as liberal order recalibrates itself in response to the event of COVID-19.