Description
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.- Clarifies the scientific knowledge around COVID-19- Provides a multidisciplinary analysis involving biology, economics, epidemiology, medicine, and statistics relating to COVID-19- Focuses on the need to invest and develop the bioeconomy as the basis of a new global and integrated health system, pulling together conservation, resource economics, and preventive and curative medicine
Table of Contents
PART 1 How and why all this had an origin1. The origins of infections2. Meaning and dynamics of epidemicsPART 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 vaccinesPART 3 The impact of COVID-19 on the economic system5. Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics6. COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?7. The effects on the economic systems8. The effects on healthcare systems and health statusPART 4 The policy analysis9. What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?10. Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprintPART 5 The solutions11. How to manage the risk of new pandemics12. Epilogics 12. Epilog
