The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge

ISBN-13: 9780443185762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Vincenzo Atella; Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

Opis

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an important watershed for modern society. The world will never be the same. Almost all economic and social activities need to be reviewed, rethought, and adapted to the new context. The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge explains a complex phenomenon that has left doubts and uncertainties among the many who want to understand. The book fills some of these gaps by providing answers to a series of questions including why the epidemic originated, how it spread, how it was managed, how long we will have to live with it, what effects did it have on the economy, who will be most affected, how the new world will change us, and how our way of seeing the world will change. Lastly, the book proposes some solutions to prevent and be more prepared to the recurrence of such events as well as to manage them more effectively.

Spis treści

1. The history of the largest public health system in the United States 2. Standing up the Emergency Response at the Epicenter of the Epicenter 3. Emergency Departments Spring into Action 4. As the Crisis Shifted to the Intensive Care Units 5. Bringing key players together, standing up incident command and communicating with everyone 6. The iterations of patient movement throughout the surge 7. Supply Chain and PPE, the Wave One Dilemma 8. Surge Staffing During a Vendor Provider Shortage 9. Fatality Management During the Worst Crisis of Our Lifetime 10. Fine Tuning the Surge Plan 11. The Invaluable Laboratory Response 12. Situational Awareness, Going from Flying Blind to Eyes on it All 13. IT - Coordinating the Technology Infrastructure of the System 14. Donations were a Full Time Job 15. Correctional Health Response to COVID-19 16. Alternate Care Sites Including Hoteling, a New Path in a Massive Surge Response 17. Behavioral Health and COVID-19 18. Keeping Track of it All 19. Testing and Tracing in the "World's Capital" 20. Vaccinations - the Road to Normalcy and the Race Against the Variants 21. Wellness and Helping Healers Heal during the biggest crisis of our lifetime 22. The Future of the Public Health Systems