Disaster of housing care amenities versus COVID-19 in urbanized countries: medication of social science
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-2156.IntJSciRep20211459Keywords:
COVID-19, Developed countries, Public epidemiology, Home caresAbstract
In the background of the COVID-19 epidemic, a big portion of developed nations have suffered an exceptionally high human death toll residing in nursing care homes. In order to further explain this process, public epidemiology contributes significantly, due to the biological influence of the pathogen on as a core feature of wellbeing, disadvantaged high-risk communities and to the position of treatment. The catastrophe of deaths associated with COVID-19 in care centers is largely attributed towards its iatrogenic distribution and exacerbated by societal factors. Present segregation and containment measures have struggled to illustrate their efficacy in mitigating these trends, along with the extended alienation of tenants from their companions, and are thus excessive. Reforms that value for both protection interests of all citizens and fundamental rights must be substituted. Now about the dubious feasibility, these initiatives carry substantial costs of chances, because as standard of health and life conditions of isolated inhabitants are adversely impacted. The COVID-19 issue, viewed in specific from the prism of pharmacy as a public study and social epidemiology, creates ability to correctly appreciate and radically strengthen system parameters.
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Author Biographies
Anwar Ali, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Munir Ahmed, Department of Food Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
Ahmed Bostani, School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, Liaoning, China
Qurat U. Ain, Department of Biochemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Ayesha Saeed, Department of Biochemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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