Author: Dan Gustafson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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This book holds the stories of nine nurses from across the United States, who volunteered to work in New York City hospitals during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. These nurses left their ordinary lives behind to fly on empty planes to a city overwhelmed by a plague. Thrust onto the coronavirus wards, they saw and did incredible things. Faced with adversity they put patients' lives before their own, working tirelessly day after day in unimaginable conditions. These first-hand accounts provide a powerful look at what it was really like on the front lines of health care during a global pandemic. The stories these nurses have are crucial to share with the world. This should never happen again.
Author: R. C. Sobti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000687023
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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The Covid-19 Pandemic disrupted lives across borders and created unprecedented pressures on the health and medical infrastructure. Frontline workers were at the forefront in handling efforts to curb its devastating effects on people’s lives. This volume looks at various challenges frontline workers and women, working tirelessly both in the privacy of homes as well as professionals in public spaces faced and their immense contribution to managing the pandemic. It examines the psychosocial and health implications the pandemic and its fallout has had on the professions and personal lives of healthcare workers, sanitary workers, police, teachers, household helps, sex workers, volunteers among others. Analysing the vulnerabilities and the adaptability of nursing personnel, doctors and administrators, it also offers suggestions for rebooting healthcare systems and for putting in place support-systems to mitigate the adverse gendered impacts of the lockdowns and the spread of the disease. Comprehensive and insightful, with essays from experts in different fields, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of public health, healthcare management, gender studies, public policy making, sociology, economics.
Author: J. Maya Tomas
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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This book is about the events that happened when Covid-19 was unfolding in the United States of America. Reflecting through the eyes of an E.R. Doctor, a public school teacher, and frontline workers, the book shines light on what was going on and how it changed lives.
Author: Chevelta Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996829526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Let's R.E.S.T. Is an Inspiration Journal for COVID 19 Frontliners and Medical Professionals which was created to assist them in recognizing when they may be moving into the danger zone of depression and suicide due to burnout and stress of working in the pandemic. Additionally, it was produced to be a forum which Dr. Chevelta could encouraged, uplift and foster connection through inspiration, in an effort to assist in alleviating their daily stress and pressure.
Author: R. C. Sobti
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811651051
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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This book discusses the organ-specific systemic manifestations of COVID-19. The initial chapters of the book review the origin and evolution of the coronaviruses, followed by pathogenesis and immune response during COVID-19 infection. The book also provides insight into the role of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in the onset of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogenesis. It summarizes the neurological aspects of SARS-CoV2, including transmission pathways, mechanisms of invasion into the nervous system, and mechanisms of neurological disease. It also delineates the association of severe disease with high blood plasma levels of inflammatory cytokines and inflammatory markers in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Lastly, it discusses the perturbation of gut microbiota by SARS-CoV-2 and uncovers the potential risk of virus infection on reproductive health.
Author: Chevelta Smith
Publisher: Raw Medicine
ISBN: 9780996829533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Let's R.E.S.T. Is an Inspirational Journal for COVID 19 Frontliners and Medical Professionals which was created to assist them in recognizing when they may be moving into the danger zone of depression and suicide due to burnout and stress of working in the pandemic. Additionally, it was produced to be a forum which Dr. Chevelta could encourage, uplift, and foster connection through inspiration, in an effort to assist in alleviating their daily stress and pressure.
Author: Wilmar B. Schaufeli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351421158
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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A rapidly growing number of people experience psychological strain at their workplace. In almost all industrialized countries, absenteeism and turnover rates increase, and an increasing amount of workers receive disablement benefits because of psychological problems. This book, first published in 1993, concentrates on a specific kind of occupational stress: burnout, the depletion of energy resources as a result of continuous emotional demands of the job. This volume presents theoretical perspectives that had been developed in the United States and Europe, discusses methodological issues, and examines organisational contexts. Written by an international group of leading scholars, this book will be of interest to students of both psychology and human resource management.
Author: Delia Rarela-Barcelona
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 9781669834168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Battle Against COVID-19 Filipino American Healthcare Workers on the Frontlines of the Pandemic Response is a tribute to all health and essential workers who provide critical services to save lives. These frontliners have risked their lives during this pandemic and sadly, a significant number have succumbed to the deadly virus. Many of them were Filipino American nurses who were adversely and disproportionately affected while serving in critical care and hospital intensive care units. This book brings together some of the voices of these modern-day heroes, highlighting their risks and fears particularly in the early days of the pandemic. The book recounts the unprecedented challenges they faced - their sadness, frustrations, and coping mechanisms amid a life-altering global health crisis. As the world continues to strive to get back to a new kind of normal, the book provides perspectives on continuing efforts to contain the virus, including scientific breakthroughs, and government-led ways to at least transition from pandemic to endemic phase. While it may take time to fully understand the longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is certain. Dedicated and brave frontline healthcare workers will continue to do what they know best -provide critical attention, supportive care, and lifesaving interventions.
Author: Francine D. Blau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy discussion and provide data on the demographic and labor market composition of these workers. In a three-step approach, we first apply the official industry guidelines issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to microdata from the 2017 and 2018 American Community Survey to identify essential workers regardless of actual operation status of their industry. We then use data on the feasibility of work from home in the worker's occupation group (Dingel and Neiman 2020) to identify those most likely to be frontline workers who worked in-person early in the COVID-19 crisis in March/April 2020. In a third step we exclude industries that were shutdown or running under limited demand at that time (Vavra, 2020). We find that the broader group of essential workers comprises a large share of the labor force and tends to mirror its demographic and labor market characteristics. In contrast, the narrower category of frontline workers is, on average, less educated, has lower wages, and has a higher representation of men, disadvantaged minorities, especially Hispanics, and immigrants. These results hold even when excluding industries that were shutdown or operating at a limited level.
Author: Ahmad Faisal Ahmad Ramzi
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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On 22 January 2020, a bus travelled from Singapore to Malaysia with 17 tourists from China. On the bus was 40-year-old Tourist X. On 23 January 2020, Singapore Health Authorities contacts Malaysia. A 66-year old Chinese national had tested positive for coronavirus in Singapore. Eight close contacts of this case had entered into Johor. This led to the detection of 3 cases on 24 January 2020 by the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL). On 24 January 2020, Tourist X was symptomatic and sought care at a private hospital and was referred to the Ministry of Health. The Institute of Medical Research (IMR) conducts COVID-19 test on samples from Tourist X and confirms its first positive case. There are now 4 cases. What follows next is the biggest public health crisis Malaysia has ever seen. The Medical Frontliners' Ballad attempts to dive deep into the daily realities faced by the Malaysian public medical community in dealing with the rapid spread and containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. A collection of 15 stories from actual frontliners will offer insights into their personal and professional lives, highlighting the hard choices and sacrifices expected of them in answering their call of duty amidst the Hippocratic oath that they have sworn to always uphold as health care practitioners. This book will share their stories from their unique perspective, chronicling their fears, doubts, and above all, hope.
