Search Tag: social distancing

Executive Health Management

Patient-experiences-in-hospitals-change-amidst-the-covid-19-pandemic

2023 31 Aug

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic posed unparalleled challenges for acute-care hospitals. To control the spread of COVID-19 infection, hospitals adopted new protocols, including social distancing and restricted visitor access.   A recent cohort study looked to describe differences in 2020 to 2021 patient experiences to assess whether the...Read more

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Close-circle-affects-behaviour-during-pandemic

2021 22 Jan

Social influences are more important for people’s adherence to distancing rules during the pandemic than their own beliefs, a new study shows ( Tunçgenç et al. 2021) .   You might also like: Communicating COVID-19 Uncertainty to Public   The pandemic has demanded a drastic change in our behaviours, with social distancing being...Read more

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Pandemic-legal-database

2020 23 Jul

COVID-19 spurred a vast increase in urgent legislative action directed at controlling the disease. However, poor design, implementation or enforcement of legal frameworks can do harm and impede efforts to end the pandemic. A new initiative has been launched to ensure that laws protect individual and public health and wellbeing.   You...Read more

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Covid-19-pandemic-the-importance-of-testing-and-social-distancing

2020 11 May

Prof. Mamas A. Mamas is a structural interventional cardiologist, treating patients with underlying coronary artery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in both the elective and emergency setting and undertaking Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions (TAVI). He is also the Associate Editor of Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and...Read more

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Covid-19-in-search-for-answers-to-major-questions

2020 16 Apr

Researchers use mathematical modelling to predict the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the human population after its initial pandemic stage and compute a more realistic picture of the coronavirus infection rate .   You may also like : Where Does COVID-19 Vaccine Development Stand?   Five-Year Projection One study (...Read more