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Public health – Analysis and Comment
South Africa is aiming for 67% coverage, which translates to about 40 million people by the end of 2021.
Digital health can improve care, but in Ontario, health data are still fragmented, despite billions of dollars spent over the last two decades to enable fast and secure exchange of health information.
According to a study conducted in collaboration with the Nobel laureate in economics, Lars Peter Hansen, decision theory is an effective tool for finding the best trade-offs.
Where there are not enough health workers to deliver medical care, one solution is to move certain tasks to less specialised health workers, a process called task-shifting.
An average healer in the rural South African town where the study was done experiences about 1,500 occupational blood exposures in their lifetime.
The HPV vaccine is an effective prevention for cervical cancer, especially if adolescents get it before sexual debut.
The increased use of disinfectants could allow for the development of bacterial strains which are resistant to disinfectants.
The responsibility should not simply lie with employees who are working even harder.
Fat replacers have the potential to mitigate the global obesity challenge.
There has been growing discontent with many local authorities and calls by concerned citizens for the municipalities to be dissolved.
The virus is always present in nature and when circumstances allow, it may jump from one species to another.
The clock starts ticking once the vaccine leaves the freezer. Here’s what to expect.
Facebook’s decision to ban media organisations from posting links to news articles on the social media giant’s platform comes under a week before Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout begins.
Occasionally, a mutation will give the virus a better chance of surviving and reproducing itself, and will result in a new population (known as a new lineage)
With a third of adults saying they likely won’t get the vaccine, the US has a herd immunity math problem.
When people start to hear that global case numbers are improving, there’s a tendency to relax — and that’s risky.
How will governments convince enough people to get vaccinated to achieve herd immunity?
Even those that live in areas where the population has already been vaccinated would not be totally protected if the virus mutates elsewhere.
When people who test positive to COVID-19 become subject to ridicule for their activities, it could make others feel reluctant to get tested, or reveal their movements to contact tracers.
Ghana’s mid-year target of procuring and administering 17.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses may be constrained by global supply, cold chain capacity, and vaccine hesitancy.
Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened unemployment and poverty, showing the need for the government to permanently expand income support to working-age adults.
High quality antenatal care can improve maternal health in West and Central Africa by identifying and addressing underlying problems that can cause pregnancy complications.
Over 130 million doses have already been administered worldwide. It’s early days, but the signs are promising in places like Israel and the UK.