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In this Viewpoint, Lauren Gardner, winner of the 2022 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for creating the COVID-19 Dashboard, discusses the development of the Dashboard and the factors that contributed to its success.
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Awards and Prizes , COVID-19 , Global Health , Pandemics , Public Health Surveillance , COVID-19/epidemiology , Global Health/history , Global Health/statistics & numerical data , History, 21st Century , Humans , Pandemics/statistics & numerical data , Public Health Surveillance/methods , Time Factors , United States/epidemiologySubject(s)
Global Health/history , Health Equity/history , Leadership , World Health Organization/history , COVID-19/prevention & control , COVID-19 Vaccines/administration & dosage , Ethiopia , Health Services Needs and Demand , History, 21st Century , Humans , Pandemics/prevention & control , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
Family planning (FP) is the domain that enables people to have their desired number of children if any, and the desired spacing of births. FP initiatives are cross-cutting approaches to empower people with human and reproductive rights, lessen child morbidity and pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality, alleviate poverty, slow climate change, provide sustainable economic growth and development, advance education, and voluntarily slow overpopulation. We examine global FP programs: the history, drivers, and indicators to measure impact, policy, and strategy that surrounds human reproduction. We focus on current trends of task-sharing, self-care, digital health solutions, and the ever-changing contexts with our current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019.
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Family Planning Services/history , Global Health/history , Developed Countries , Developing Countries , Family Planning Policy/trends , Family Planning Services/methods , Family Planning Services/organization & administration , Family Planning Services/trends , Global Health/trends , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Program Development/methods , Program Evaluation/methodsABSTRACT
Fourteen months into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we identify key lessons in the global and national responses to the pandemic. The World Health Organization has played a pivotal technical, normative and coordinating role, but has been constrained by its lack of authority over sovereign member states. Many governments also mistakenly attempted to manage COVID-19 like influenza, resulting in repeated lockdowns, high excess morbidity and mortality, and poor economic recovery. Despite the incredible speed of the development and approval of effective and safe vaccines, the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants means that all countries will have to rely on a globally coordinated public health effort for several years to defeat this pandemic.
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COVID-19/epidemiology , Communicable Disease Control , Global Health , Communicable Disease Control/methods , Communicable Disease Control/organization & administration , Communicable Disease Control/trends , Global Health/history , Global Health/trends , Government , History, 21st Century , Humans , Pandemics/history , Public Health/history , Public Health/methods , Public Health/trends , Public Health Administration/methods , Public Health Administration/standards , Public Health Administration/trends , SARS-CoV-2/physiologySubject(s)
COVID-19/epidemiology , Global Health , Pandemics , Public Health , COVID-19/history , Forecasting , Global Health/history , Global Health/trends , Health Priorities/economics , Health Priorities/trends , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Humans , Pandemics/economics , Pandemics/history , Pandemics/prevention & control , Public Health/history , Public Health/trends , Public Health Administration/history , Public Health Administration/methods , Public Health Administration/trends , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
The 2019 novel coronavirus disease pandemic poses a serious threat. While its short-term effects are evident, its long-term consequences are a matter of analysis. In this work, the existence of long-lasting negative effects derived from exposure in utero to a great pandemic -1918 influenza pandemic- is analysed for the Argentine case. Outcomes of interest include educational achievement and unemployment status in adulthood -50 years after the pandemic. Based on a regression analysis, temporal differences in the spread of the pandemic and between close birth cohorts are exploited. The results indicate a significant reduction in educational achievement for people exposed in utero to the pandemic. In the region with the highest incidence of cases (Noroeste), this reduction is 0.5 years of education. There are no significant changes in the chances of being unemployed. In the context of climate change, these results constitute a call of attention for the implementation of child protection policies from gestation.