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 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
