{"title":"Fourteen Centuries of Precautions against COVID-19","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-152","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) was detected in Wuhan, China and spreading all over the world within few months. From a religious point of view, Islam gave teachings to prevent infections and face pandemics 14 centuries ago. These teachings are applied now by the World Health Organization (WHO) to control COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114284292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Post COVID-19 Effects on Different Body Systems: A Literature Review","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-150","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2019, there was an outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019 in Wuhan, then spread to other countries. The outbreak of a new coronavirus, termed officially by the world health organization (WHO) coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and the international committee on taxonomy of viruses, has suggested SARSCOV-2 as the name of the virus that causes covid-19 (1-3). It has large numbers of deaths, especially since its first identifications in Wuhan, China. Because of this continuous increase in numbers, the virus has become a focus of many scientists and researchers, so through these studies done on the cases of COVID-19, it is discovered that it isn't just attacking the lungs. Still, it's causing harm to many-body systems, especially in more advanced cases of COVID-19. This is expected for the COVID-19 virus because we also harm many-body systems through our experience in dealing with previous Corona Viruses (SARS AND MERS).","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129243029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is it True that the Corona Virus will take a Few Years to Get Completely Eradicated?","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-149","url":null,"abstract":"Lots of hope but also illusions. It all depends on the future vaccine [1]that will allow human protection against the Corona (COVID 19) disease. \u0000\u0000The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, termed COVID-19, is multifactorial and associated with both specific antiviral as well as inflammatory responses, the extent of which may determine why some individuals are asymptomatic while others develop serious complications. Here we review possible life-threatening immune events that may occur during disease progression to uncover key factors behind COVID-19 severity and provide suggestions for interventions with repurposed drugs in well-controlled and randomized clinical trials. These drugs include therapeutics with potential to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 entry into host cells such as serine protease inhibitors of the TMPS2 cellular protease and drugs targeting the renin-angiotensin system; antivirals with potential to block SARS-CoV-2 replication or factors that could boost the antiviral response; monoclonal antibodies targeting pro-inflammatory cytokines that drive the hyper inflammatory response during COVID-19 progression toward the severe stage and therapeutics that could ameliorate the function of the lungs. Furthermore, in order to help make more informed decisions on the timing of the intervention with the drugs listed in this review, we have grouped these therapeutics according to the stage of COVID-19 progression that we considered most appropriate for their mechanism of action.[2]","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127669450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boredom and Psychological Problems during a COVID-19 Lockdown","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-148","url":null,"abstract":"Boredom has been related to anxiety and depression in the pre-COVID-19 literature. In this COVID-19 lockdown Survey Monkey study, as many as 68% of 260 respondents reported feeling bored. Correlation analyses suggested that feeling bored was significantly correlated with several demographic variables and virtually every item on every scale of the survey. The demographic correlations suggested that boredom occurred more frequently in males, in those with less schooling, in those not working at home during the lockdown, and in those who were lacking a routine. The significant correlations for the scales suggested that those feeling bored engaged in fewer health activities like exercise, self-care and meditating; they spent more time on social media including gaming and Facebook; they engaged in less creative work and hobbies; they scored higher on the Stress Scale including worrying more about the virus and their finances; they reported feeling more isolated, lonely and touch deprived; and they had higher scores on anxiety, depression, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and PTSD scales. A regression analysis suggested that 49% of the variance in the boredom scores was explained by stress scale scores. These results are limited by their being self-reported data from a non-representative, cross-sectional sample. Nonetheless, they highlight the negative effects of feeling bored during a COVID-19 lockdown.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130544675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frequency and Predictors of Tonsil Surgery: A Systematic Review of Evidence","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-147","url":null,"abstract":"Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy are common procedures, performed typically on children. Evidence suggests that these procedures may be associated with health conditions, as well as with demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. This review examines worldwide evidence related to the frequency and predictors of tonsil surgery for all age groups. Using PubMed, Web of Science, and Ovid Cochrane, a systematic review was conducted which retrieved 11 relevant articles. This review suggests that tonsil surgery is associated with age, geographical region of residence, and race. Further studies to evaluate factors associated with tonsil surgery will provide more information regarding the frequency of tonsil surgery, as well as the disparities in incidence of the surgery among different population groups.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131537588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prevention, Control and Treatment Strategies for Trypanosomiasis: A Review","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-146","url":null,"abstract":"Tryponosomiasis is a disease that afflicts populations in rural Africa, where the tsetse fly vector that transmits the causative trypanosome parasites thrives. There are two forms of Human African Trypanosomosis (HAT): one, known as gambiense HAT, is endemic in West and Central Africa and causes over 95% of current cases; the other, known as rhodesiense HAT, is endemic in East and southern Africa and accounts for the remainder of cases. The presence of parasites in the brain leads to progressive neurological breakdown. Changes to sleep–wake patterns are among the symptoms that characterize the disease, also known as “sleeping sickness”. Eventually, patients fall into a coma and die if not treated. Different treatments are available against parasites present in the haemo-lymphatic system (first-stage) and those that have entered the brain (second-stage). Currently, lumbar puncture is required to select the appropriate drug. The paper was aimed to review the prevention and treatment strategies for tryponosomiasis.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124814598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining Constraints to Sport Participation among Immigrant Adolescent Girls who reside in the Greater Toronto Area","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-145","url":null,"abstract":"Despite numerous benefits associated with sport, rates of sport participation are low among adolescent girls. Although research has documented this decline, it tends to ignore diverse samples such as immigrants. This study examined constraints to sport participation among immigrant adolescent girls who reside in the Greater Toronto Area. Guided by Newell’s theory of constraints, a secondary analysis was conducted on survey responses from 90 participants. Constraints found among immigrant girls included family sport participation, friends encouragement, belief that certain sports were not for girls and physical intensity. Additionally, findings showed that immigrant girls face more environmental constraints compared to those who did not immigrate. Information gathered highlights constraints among this sample which may aid in informing future programs.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131346553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of COVID-19 on Telemedicine","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-144","url":null,"abstract":"With the improvement of telecommunication and computer technology, telemedicine has been deployed to meet the clinical needs of patients and providers, primarily in the areas of mental health, chronic disease management, and patient education. Most comprehensive healthcare systems developed infrastructures that have allowed them to provide telemedicine services to their patients for over a decade. Veteran Affairs (VA) Healthcare Systems has been at the forefront of delivering healthcare through telemedicine, but the adoption by patients and providers had been slow until the advent of COVID-19. The aim of this study is to understand the ethnographies of the impact of COVID-19 on telemedicine through the data in a large VA medical center. It also explores the impact of COVID-19 on telemedicine in clinical and social economical dimensions in different specialties and clinical settings.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126067709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current Status and Prevention of COVID-19What Do We Know?","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-143","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 spread across the world, like a wildfire during the first half of the year 2020. It coincided with the flu season in countries located in northern and southern latitudes, during their respective winter periods. Whereas in the middle east, during its summertime people develop hypovitaminosis D, when people completely avoid the sun due to extreme heat. Consequently, people stay away from the hot sun and consequently, vitamin D concertation and the innate immunity reduce, increaseing the risks of acquiring respiratory viral infections. Thus, it is not necessary the low temperature and high humidity but the lack of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) B rays from the sunlight that reduces the population vitamin D concentration, which weakens the immunity, thereby increasing the risk of contracting COVID-19, and to develop associated complications and deaths. The effective public health modes for prevention of COVID-19 includes, wearing face masks properly covering nose and mouth, avoid crowd gatherings, especially in enclosed spaces, washing hands each time returned to office or home, and having a balance diet with adequate micronutrients, and these use of UVC lamps. At present there is no specific antiviral, or safe, effective, and affordable vaccine against COVID-19; it is unlikely such would materialize during the year 2020 or even beyond. At present, the only proven intervention that prevent COVID-19 and reduces its complications and deaths is vitamin D.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130172614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimorbidity, Drug Combinations, Spike Epitopes and Fast Testing as Central Factors in COVID-19 Treatments","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/10.31829/2641-7456/ahs2020-4(1)-142","url":null,"abstract":"Since December 2019 almost 20 million infected and 1000,000 deaths. Today we hear the at the USA president Mr. Donald Trump (age 74) has contracted the corona disease. The Hard acute breathing Distress Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) has been reported worldwide. Even though Coronary artery disease (COVID-19) Respiratory complications Were the most common and life-threatening, there Frequent reports of central and peripheral nervous system (PNS) involvement. It was thought that the elderly are more vulnerable to the disease, which turns out as wrong.","PeriodicalId":127914,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Health Science","volume":"9 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114114328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}