Environment and Public Health Research

Health risks and health poverty alleviation practices in China: Review and prospects

Ruixin Li, Zhaohua Zhang — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:37:54 +0000

Targeted poverty alleviation is an important means and strategic decision to eliminate poverty in China, and health poverty alleviation, as an important part of targeted poverty alleviation, has an irreplaceable role in poverty alleviation. Existing studies have found that health poverty is mainly triggered through the external environment and individual characteristics, and health risks such as natural risks, family risks, and social risks all affect the occurrence of poverty. This paper summarizes China’s health poverty alleviation policy evolution and practical effect and experience, and thinking about the future research trends of health poverty. It is important for the academia to provide theoretical support and prospective analysis before policy formulation, and has important reference significance for the accurate formulation and smooth implementation of policies in the political circles, and at the same time, it is also of great practical significance for the formulation of health poverty alleviation policies in the new era, and for preventing the people who have been lifted out of poverty from falling back into poverty and consolidating the results of the poverty alleviation campaign.

SARS-CoV-2: Mapping its features that made it as a unique virus

Amro Abd Al Fattah Amara — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:20:31 +0000

SARS-CoV-2 attracts the attention of nearly the whole world during the last four years. It is a corona virus that responsible for the death of millions. It is responsible for economical corruption in many countries. As a response, excessive vaccination programs were installed everywhere. But many variants are elevated and the virus prove ability to escape from the immune system because of different mutations. The progress in different scientific domains, instrumentation, bioinformatics, and the like, makes fast vaccines developing easier. As a response, new strategies were introduced including new vaccine production and administration strategies, genomic surveillance, immunopeptidome, gene sequencing, and the like, to enable the vaccine to cover all the targeted populations in correct time and to install early alarming system against any elevated new variants. This review contains more information about some important station for the history of vaccine development and the strategies invented by scientists to control different viruses and other microbes. Some important issues that might influence the type of the used vaccines about the SARS-CoV-2 are addressed. They include their symptoms, the virus evasion of the innate immune system, the response of the adaptive immunity, and the like. Although the world still in need of better understand for the SARS-CoV-2 behavior to gain the war against it, previous historical successful vaccine productions, important examples, and station during the human struggle against the viruses are described and discussed.

Examining perceptions of Kwande residents on traditional songs aired on Ashiwaves radio station for curbing the COVID-19 pandemic in Benue State

Terwanger Daniel Aliough, Iliya Jeremiah Ovey, Eric Msughter Aondover — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:46:01 +0000

Traditional songs are useful in mobilising natives for genuine causes that promote the wellbeing of society, especially when the issue is life-threatening. This research was carried out to ascertain how traditional songs were used on Ashiwaves FM to curb the COVID-19 pandemic among Kwande residents in Benue State. The research adopted a survey method that relied on a questionnaire that was administered to 400 respondents using the Taro Yamane statistical formula. The theories used to anchor the research were Uses and Gratification and Agenda Setting, which explained how Kwande residents satisfied their need for deriving information and education on how to avoid contracting COVID-19 and how Ashiwaves Radio station repeatedly played traditional songs specifically meant for sensitising the public on the coronavirus prompting people to think about it. Findings of the study revealed that Ashiwaves Radio station played traditional songs on their station (100%), which was useful in sensitizing Kwande residents to curb the spread of the pandemic. It was also discovered from the findings that the song by Rapizo (98%) was the most instrumental in educating Kwande residents to stay at home and avoid crowded areas (40%), wash their hands (24%), and maintain social distance (14%). The research concluded that traditional songs are essential to every ethnic group in carrying out sensitisation on health issues. Therefore, it is recommended that other ethnic groups in Nigeria also encourage their indigenous artists to compose songs that can be used for educating their locals in the wake of future health challenges to avert casualties.