scholarly journals The way of life of the unhoused people as an enhance for COVID-19 care

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudia Brito ◽  
Lenir Nascimento da Silva ◽  
Carlos Cesar Leal Xavier ◽  
Valeska Holst Antunes ◽  
Marcelo Soares Costa ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the way of life of the unhoused people to enhance health care in the pandemic. Methods: A qualitative, interdisciplinary research, with participant observation and 24 interviews with the unhoused people. Empirical categories and bibliographic search on this population and COVID-19 guided simple actions aimed at care. Results: The group at greatest risk for COVID-19 use drugs compulsively; starves constantly; discontinues drug treatment for tuberculosis, HIV, and diabetes; has underdiagnosis of Depression; has difficulty sheltering and uses inhaled drugs. This way of life increases the risk of worsening COVID-19 and brings great challenges to health services. Several proposals to guide care considered these results and the new routine caused by the pandemic. Final considerations: The way of life of the studied population increased their vulnerability in the pandemic, as well as the perception of risk of disease transmission by the population in general.

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumika Horinuki ◽  
Maiko Noguchi-Watanabe ◽  
Yukari Takai ◽  
Reiko Yamahana ◽  
Nobuhiro Ohno ◽  
...  

This study aimed to elucidate the experiences of Japanese persons with hematological malignancy (PHMs) in communicating with health care professionals (HCPs), from diagnosis to the end of life, as recalled by their families. We interviewed 14 bereaved families and analyzed the data using the basic techniques of grounded theory. We found that PHMs lived to the fullest possible when they experienced ownership of their illness process despite their disease. The ownership was made possible by active communication from HCPs: first, acknowledging the PHM’s way of life, including reaching out from the HCPs and appreciating sincerely PHMs’ hopes and will; and second, paving the way ahead, including giving prospects and offering choices. The study underlines that rather than just providing information about the disease, HCPs need to actively ask about and show respect for the PHM’s way of life. Only after achieving this can HCPs communicate possible future pathways with PHMs.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Mineiro ◽  
João Cannas ◽  
Luís Barroso ◽  
Nuno Lança ◽  
João Pedro

With the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak being highly contagious and spread all over the world, it became clear that health care systems globally would need to evolve, develop strategies, identify new models or rejuvenate old conservative methods of care and thus reduce the risk of disease transmission and be prepared for the worse. In Portugal, both public and private health care systems were together preparing for a disease nobody knew exactly how to handle and the example/scenario we had of its arrival in Europe and progressing west through Italy and Spain was dreadful! In a unique occasion in this country, both private and public health care systems got together to share whatever free beds they had, in particular ICU beds and ventilation facilities taking into account that these were the weakest areas where both the Italian and the Spanish health care systems had failed. [...]


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rosemary Sayigh

It was the stated belief of Zionist leaders that Palestinians expelled from Palestine in 1948 would forget their country within one or two generations. This has not happened and it is therefore a question for research through what relationships and social processes memories of the original land, and the way of life within it, have been produced and reproduced over more than seventy years. This paper is based on interviews as well as participant observation in two camps, Shateela and Bourj al-Barajneh near Beirut (Lebanon), augmented by email interviews with a wider range of Palestinian subjects, both geographically and socially.


Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  

Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul.


2020 ◽  
Vol 152 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-449
Author(s):  
Yuriy NESTERUK ◽  
Nazariy NESTERUK
Keyword(s):  

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Elvina Syahrir

The study aims to describe  about abstinence forbids of Belantik Malay community and to obtain  to  know  meaning  and  value  that  contained  in  the  abstinence  forbids.  The  writer found that there were twenty three abstinence forbids of the Belantik Malay community. By applying qualitative descriptive method, it is obtained that the abstinence forbids observed in Belantik Malay contain in terms of the religion, education, custom, and health. In fact, the  abstinence  forbids  had  a  magic  power  that  used  as  a  guidance  the  way  of  life  of Belantik Malay community. They believe that they will get side effects if they disobey them individually and in their group.AbstrakPenelitian  ini  bertujuan    untuk  mendeskripsikan  ungkapan  pantang  larang  dalam masyarakat  Melayu  Belantik.  Selain  itu,  tulisan  ini  juga  bertujuan  untuk  mengetahui makna  dan  nilai  yang  terkandung  dalam  ungkapan  pantang  larang  tersebut.  Penulis menemukan terdapat  dua  puluh  tiga  ungkapan  pantang  larang  dalam masyarakat Melayu Belantik. Melalui metode  deskriptif  kualitatif  tergambar  bahwa  ungkapan  pantang  larang dalam  masyarakat  Melayu  Belantik mengandung  nilai  agama,  pendidikan,  adat,  dan kesehatan.  Ungkapan  pantang  larang  memiliki  “kekuatan  (gaib/ajaib)”  sebagai  penuntun hidup  dan  pedoman  bagi  masyarakat  Melayu  Belantik.  Masyarakat  Melayu  Belantik percaya bahwa peristiwa tersebut apabila mereka langgar atau abaikan akan berakibat bagi kehidupan pribadi atau bahkan masyarakatnya.


2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Maria Esformes

One of the most fascinating memoirs to appear in recent years is that of Elias Canetti, recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. his three-volume spiritual and intellectual autobiography is a complex and insightful rendering of his personal background and his creative development as a novelist, philosopher, and social critic. However, Canetti's autobiography is much more than a compelling account of the development of a great artist – it is a portrait of the tragic character of an entire era that witnessed the destruction of cultures and the way of life o many Jewish communities throughout Europe.


1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Terry S. Weiner

As David Hornung and Cathy Shrady demonstrate in their paper in this volume on different healing traditions, societies differ on how they define illness and health, how they explain the lack of health, and in how they apply local values to problems of health. The purpose of this paper is to expand this insight to some larger issues, including the role played by the health care system, as organized by the modern state, in the way physicians do their work. 


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