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Pandemic Sociology [PDF]

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2020
In 1990, the sociologist Phil Strong wrote about “epidemic psychology” as part of his research on the recent history of AIDS. Strong described vividly how epidemics of fear, of explanation and moralization, and of (proposed) action accompanied the epidemic of the AIDS virus per se.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Implications for Rural Economies [PDF]

, 2020
This paper presents a rapid assessment of current and likely future impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on rural economies given their socio-economic characteristics.
Aitken-McDermott, Katie, Areal, Francisco, Cowie, Paul, Gorton, Matthew, Hubbard, Carmen, Maioli, Sara, McAreavey, Ruth, Monteiro, Diogo Souza, Newbery, Robert, Panzone, Luca, Phillipson, Jeremy, Rowe, Frances, Shortall, Sally, Shucksmith, Mark, Turner, Roger   +14 more
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Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics

Nature Communications
Substantial global attention is focused on how to reduce the risk of future pandemics. Reducing this risk requires investment in prevention, preparedness, and response.
R. Plowright, Aliyu N Ahmed, Tim Coulson, T. Crowther, I. Ejotre, Christina L. Faust, Winifred F. Frick, Peter J Hudson, Tigga Kingston, P. O. Nameer, M. T. O’Mara, Alison J Peel, Hugh P. Possingham, O. Razgour, D. Reeder, Manuel Ruiz‐Aravena, Nancy B. Simmons, P. Srinivas, Gary M Tabor, Iroro Tanshi, Ian G Thompson, A. Vanak, Neil M Vora, C. Willison, A. Keeley   +24 more
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Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment Implications

Global Health: Science and Practice Journal, 2022
Community health workers have long played a critical role in preventing, detecting, and responding to pandemics across the globe. To expand, improve, and institutionalize these services, changes in the approach to bi/multilateral aid and private ...
Madeleine Ballard, Ari D Johnson, I. Mwanza, Hope Ngwira, J. Schechter, Margaret Odera, Dickson Mbewe, Roseline Moenga, Prossy Muyingo, R. Jalloh, John Wabwire, Angela Gichaga, Nandini Choudhury, D. Maru, Pauline Keronyai, Carey Westgate, Sabitri Sapkota, H. Olsen, K. Muther, Stephanie Rapp, Mallika Raghavan, Kim Lipman-White, M. French, H. Napier, Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy   +24 more
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The invisible pandemic [PDF]

The Lancet, 2020
Many countries (and members of their press media) have marvelled at Sweden's relaxed strategy in the face of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: schools and most workplaces have remained open, and police officers were not checking one's errands in the street. Severe critics have described it as Sweden sacrificing its (elderly) citizens to
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A comprehensive review on antimicrobial face masks: an emerging weapon in fighting pandemics

RSC Advances, 2021
The world has witnessed several incidents of epidemics and pandemics since the beginning of human existence. The gruesome effects of microbial threats create considerable repercussions on the healthcare systems.
Gayathri Pullangott, U. Kannan, G. S, D. V. Kiran, S. M. Maliyekkal   +4 more
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Pandemic [PDF]

, 2019
Pandemics such as the Black Death have altered the course of history. The ravages of the Spanish Flu pandemic were so terrible that at least one culture decided the most humane way of dealing with the aftermath was simply to ignore it—to pretend the disease had not happened. Could a new pandemic possibly be worse than the Black Death or the Spanish Flu?
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Construction and curation of a data set of historical mental health incidence in Norway

Scientific Data
We present a structured data set allowing opportunity for insights into mental health admissions to Norwegian facilities covering the period 1872 to 1929.
A. O. Blinkova, U. Khakurel, H. G. Gaddy, S.-E. Mamelund, M. Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar   +4 more
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Sustainability elements of companies that are affected by pandemics

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2023
Orientation: The havoc created by COVID-19 reaffirmed the pervasive effects of pandemics on companies’ sustainability, which has become an increasingly important consideration for stakeholders.
Anneke M. Moolman, Jaco P. Fouché, Verona Leendertz   +2 more
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Genesis and pathogenesis of the 1918 pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus [PDF]

, 2014
The source, timing, and geographical origin of the 1918–1920 pandemic influenza A virus have remained tenaciously obscure for nearly a century, as have the reasons for its unusual severity among young adults.
A. Rambaut, Adalja, Antonovics, Davenport, Dowdle, Fan, FROST, G.-Z. Han, Kawaoka, KENDAL, M. Worobey, Masurel, Masurel, Masurel, Masurel, Molinari, Morens, Mulder, Nelson, REKART, SCHOENBAUM, Schulman, Shanks, Shanks, Taubenberger, Thompson, Thompson, Waffarn, Webster, Wolfe   +29 more
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