Vincenzo Atella, Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Dilemma provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest pubic health system in the United States, one that served the hardest hit neighborhoods in New York City. The book offers a roadmap to guide healthcare systems and their providers in the event of future pandemics. Readers will learn from healthcare providers at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City about surge staffing and level loading, along with tips from the ED and ICUs on how to respond to an unprecedented influx of inpatients.

• Provides historical context of the COVID-19 response by NYC Health + Hospitals
• Covers how to respond to mass influx of patients and sustained crisis over a year+
• Presents information on standing up genomic sequencing

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780443185779
• Artikelnr.: 69354755

Autorenporträt

Vincenzo Atella is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata where he teaches courses in Macroeconomics and Applied Health Economics at graduate and post graduate level. He is also adjunct associate of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University where he has been visiting professor several times, Scientific Director of the Farmafactoring Foundation, and past President of the Italian Health Economic Association (AIES). He has coordinated several European projects and received financial support by the European Science Foundation. His research activity focuses on applied economics with special emphasis in the health care sector. The results of his research activity have been published on several international refereed journals as well books.Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, is Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Economics Foundation at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata, President of the Italian Association of Development Economists, and of the Villa Mondragone Development Association, and Chairman of OpenEconomics, a university spin off focusing on cost benefit analysis and policy impact evaluation. He has widely published on a variety of topics on economic development. Formerly a holder of several academic and government positions, he is presently advising the World Bank and other international institutions on the evaluation of policies of sustainable development.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1 How and why all this had an origin
1. The origins of infections
2. Meaning and dynamics of epidemics
PART 2 The COVID-19 crisis management: not an easy task!
3. How did we manage the COVID-19 pandemic?
4. How did we contain the virus: contact tracing, social distancing, and
vaccines
PART 3 The impact of COVID-19 on the economic system
5. Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics
6. COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?
7. The effects on the economic systems
8. The effects on healthcare systems and health status
PART 4 The policy analysis
9. What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?
10. Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprint
PART 5 The solutions
11. How to manage the risk of new pandemics
12. Epilogics 12. Epilog