Coronavirus (Covid-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society: The Continuing Challenge

ISBN-13: 9783031094316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Akhtar, Rais

Opis

This books comprises of 24 chapters by experts from developed and developing countries. The book cover Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and England, USA, West Africa, and Zambia.

FOREWORD by David J. Hunter, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, the UK.

Spis treści

1.Introduction:

AUSTRALASIA

2.Under Promise and Over-deliver:The failure of political rhetoric in managing COVID-19 in Australia

3. COVID-19 and culture in Papua New Ginea.Failing to meet the challenges of diversity?

4.COVID-19 in Fiji: From health and economic to major political crisis

5. COVID-19 Vaccination trends and people’s views and action in Japan

6. Through the lens of systems thinking:Analyzing the breakdown of  a successful COVID-19 mitigation model in Taiwan

7.Lessons from COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Hong Kong and South Korea

8.Distribution and allocation of vaccines against COVID-19 and vaccination communication in Thailand

9. Resurgence of COVID-19 in Indonesia:Response to the critical second wave of pandemic

10.Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) and vaccine epidemiology in Malaysia

11.COVID-19 in Bangladesh:A spatio-Temporal and Gender analysis.

12.Crowded out:The pandemic’s toll on non-COVID patients in India

 

Africa

13.COVID-19:Work,economic activity and its geo-spatiotemporal distribution in South Africa

14. Analyzing the dual nature of responses to COVID-19 in Lusaka city

15.COVID-19 patterns and waves in West Africa:A geographical perspective

Europe

16.Current development and impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

17. The pandemic in France reveals the vulnerability of society

18. Without risk? A sociological analysis of the vaccination programme in England

19. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: How a mixed welfare regime has responded to the

      Pandemic.

 

Americas

 

20.COVID-19 in Canada:Vaccination and the effects of the pandemic on health care workers and healthcare systems        

21.Geographic patterns of COVID-19 vaccination,infection and mortality in the United States during  year-two of the pandemic and the influence of political orientation

22.COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in young adults and mitigation policies in the United States

23. Vaccination in Mexico as a political strategy

24. Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic on health services in Argentina

25. COVID-19 in Brazil: The experience of collecting citizen data in the city of Rio de Janeiro

26.Conclusion and Suggestions

Index

O autorze

Prof. Rais Akhtar is Adjunct Faculty and CO-P.I. on the Department of Science and Technology (Government of India) Project on climate change and health, at the International Institute of Health Management and Research, New Delhi. 

He has published more than 18 books and numerous articles on medical geography and climate change and health. Prof. Akhtar delivered lectures at a number of medical institutes including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Johns’ Hopkins University School of Public Health, and the Institute of Public Health, University of Pisa.

He has also received numerous international fellowships, including Leverhulme and Henry Chapman fellowships of the University of Liverpool and the University of London, respectively, and the Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Nanterre. Prof. Rais Akhtar was elected Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, London, and Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, Brussels. Prof. Akhtar was the Lead Author of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Prof. Akhtar received Nobel Prize Memento after IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.

Blurb

The proposed book comprises 24 chapters by experts from developed and developing countries. The book cover Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and England, USA, West Africa, and Zambia.

FOREWORD by David J. Hunter, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, the UK.