Socioeconomic and global burden of COVID-19

COVID-19 and Power in Global Health

Political scientists bring important tools to the analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, particularly a focus on the crucial role of power in global health politics. We delineate different kinds of power at play during the COVID-19 crisis, showing how a dearth of compulsory, institutional, and epistemic power undermined global cooperation and fuel...

Care Burden of Home Caregivers of Patients with COVID-19

Background and purpose: Caring for patients with COVID-19 at home is mainly the responsibility of the family which leads to high burden of care. The burden of care refers to psychological pain, physical problems, financial and social pressures, disruption of family relationships, feelings of hopelessness, and other negative consequences of care tasks. The aim of this study was to determine the ...

COVID-19: The potential role of nutritional deficiencies, global climatic changes, and immune system dysfunction

19 Burden of perinatal.pmd

1Department of Paediatrics, Sana’a University, Sana’a, Yemen (Correspondence to S.M. Banajeh: [email protected]). Department of Obstetrics; Department of Paediatrics, Al Sabeen Hospital for Women and Children, Sana’a, Yemen. ABSTRACT We conducted a 12-year retrospective analysis of perinatal characteristics at Al-Sabeen Hospital, Sana’a. There were 62 168 births, 2936 stillbirths and 5434 per...

Correlation between Social Capital and COVID-19 Indices: A Global Level Ecological Study

Background: Given that COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, has become a public health priority. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the social capital and the epidemiological indicators of COVID-19.  Methods: This survey is an ecological study, so all studied variables are aggregate variables.‌ To collect the variables in the study, a data set was provided, which includ...