Threat not solution: gender, global health security and 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...

COVID-19 as a Threat to Various Aspects of the Health of Women with Breast Cancer

 COVID-19 as a Threat to Various Aspects of the Health of Women with Breast Cancer

COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors and its Related Beliefs among Health Workers: The Role of Threat and Coping Appraisals

Aims: Health workers are at high risk of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) and preventive behaviors play an important role in reducing the incidence and deaths of this infection. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors and its Related Beliefs among Health Workers of Hamadan province using the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM). Instruments & Meth...

Dengue: global health threat.

Climate change is not the biggest global health threat.

The UCL Lancet Commission on climate change and health (May 16, p 1693) concludes: “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. In this report, the authors emphasise not only the immediacy and gravity of this threat, but also the directness: while the poorest in the world will be the fi rst aff ected, none will be spared. The escalating carbon footprint of the devel...