Download or read book COVID AND KERALA ON THE TURN written by Dr. Somasekharan T M and Mr. Kiran Ajeev and published by Sankalp Publication. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : Regarding Covid and related issues especially for different sectors

Download or read book The Essential On Healthcare and Pandemic Management in Kerala written by Amal Chandra and published by Infinity Indica Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the sudden and devastating arrival of COVID-19, humanity grappled with darkness and uncertainty. Lives were lost, strict quarantines imposed, and even our trusted medical professionals were caught unprepared. With little time to consult global best practices, we faced fear and uncertainty. Some succumbed to despair, while others bravely fought back. Lockdowns, while later scrutinized, seemed our only option. Our need for companionship shifted as isolation became the norm. Heartbreaking stories dominated our lives, and this book chronicles this global tragedy, with a focus on Kerala. It's a call for action to prevent such catastrophes in the future, exploring the early days of the pandemic, its impact on individuals and communities, and the challenges faced by vulnerable groups. 'The Essential' highlights Kerala's unique approach, showcasing resilience and human spirit in adversity.

Download or read book Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on Traditional Industries in Kerala written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book COVID 19 Economic Challenges and Turn around Through Innovative Ideas written by Dr. Sujit Deb and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seldom any spheres left where Covid 19 has not affected directly or indirectly and consequently leaving the human life in stake making the socio economic condition paralysed throughout the world. Contemporary themes which have been found important to explore during Covid, endeavoured to put in a repertoire through this book. Withstanding the adversities of Covid has been turned to be the greatest challenge for society as well as other spectrum of life like economy, education, IT and allied services, MSME, sales, production marketing and distribution management and the like. Covid 19 turned out to be massive and lethal cause of socio economic destruction aggravated the economical and psychological woes of people; left the human generation to face unknown challenges in every sphere. This book attempted to focus not only on the effects of Covid 19 but also the turnaround strategies undertaken by the corporate and service sectors to survive and regain strengths. Advent of Covid shattered the work flow, service flow, production flow having a treacherous impact on human resource management. Attempts are being made to focus on the upcoming economic challenges, effects on small and medium enterprises; survival strategies of mankind, role of IT and its boons on the sustainability of livelihood, online education and its challenges, challenges of sports marketing, effects of Covid on international trade and business, social economic challenges faced by migrant people, impact of Covid on social behaviour of the people, growth and performance of e-commerce, strategies built on innovation, etc. The contents of this book may benefit the entrepreneurs, service sectors, corporate, policy makers, social thinkers, researchers, students, as it has been discussing the turnaround strategies to sustain human existence during Covid. With an intention to offer a variety of issues which are found to be prominent and relevant during Covid, this book has been brought out. It is expected that readers of this book will found it useful and source of pertinent information.

Download or read book Onam in a Nightie written by Anjana Menon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny caretaker with a French connection holds sway. Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours. Appu holds lessons for the living but Maya cares only for the dead. And a gastronome dog plays ball girl to tennis-loving nuns. At the centre is an imposing temple so ancient that no one knows exactly when it was built. Here, even a tiny railway station has set its own rules for acceptance and belonging. On the other side of the tracks, a baker runs errands for total strangers in the middle of a pandemic. Malgudi Days meets reality in the search for joy and belonging in a book that is alternatively heartwarming and hilarious. Anjana Menon takes you to a place that you wish stays that way forever, in these true stories of hope and resilience from a midway Kerala town.

Download or read book The Dark Hour India Under Lockdowns written by Amir Peerzada and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a mere four hours’ notice, at 8.00 p.m., on March 24th 2020, the Indian Prime Minister Modi announced a lockdown to contain the spread of virus in order to jumpstart an already-crumbling healthcare system for one of the most devastating pandemics soon to envelop India. People stormed out to panic-buy ration stocks; India’s migrant working classes started walking back to the villages, left hungry and desolate without homes, work and wages - a scene not very short of an apocalypse. Over two summers, India woke up to similar headlines: a shortage of hospital beds, oxygen, medicines; a languishing economy; cases rising and falling; governments greenlighting Hindu religious, superspreader that compounded the second wave; misled unlocking schools, business and the social sphere, and reversed lockdowns when cases went up; underreporting of cases and deaths; lakhs dead to the virus and crores of people infected, and still counting. While the pandemic continues to rage on, notwithstanding its ebbs and flows, its real impact on society may start to be visible only much later. Over a year of tracking how the pandemic ravaged India’s society, economy, politics and culture, nine of finest India’s writers try and make sense of this difficult reality. The Dark Hour is a publisher’s anthology of specially commissioned long-form essays that unpack two dreadful summers of the pandemic that wreaked havoc on the many Indias within India.

Download or read book Communication in Times of Crisis The Case of Kerala s Handling of the COVID 19 Pandemic written by Arzoo Singh and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: A, course: Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Media and Entertainment), language: English, abstract: This research focuses on the process of communication between the state government and the citizens during a crisis situation and the formulation of an effective response strategy when faced with a significant threat to health or safety. My specific research interests are 1) the nature of decision - making processes that influence the perception of the audience towards the government, and 2) how the government body makes sense of an ambiguous and unpredictable situation, in order to build credibility with the audience and influence their behavior. This is a qualitative research focusing on Kerala government's response to the SARS Covid-19 pandemic crisis in India from the months of January till May. A global public health crisis has the potential to critically harm the nation's economy and thus, requires strategic planning to deal with the crisis. However, even though faced with H1N1 influenza pandemic and Nipah Virus epidemic in the past decade, the country still struggles with developing effective response strategy and contingency plans when faced with an unexpected, highly unpredictable public health crisis. My research understands the process between the development of a crisis response strategy and its implementation. Additionally, it also addresses the positive/negative perception created in the minds of the public through media.

Download or read book Deepening Democracy written by Joseph Tharamangalam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the renewed interest and commitment that countries across the world have shown in recent decades towards adopting models of decentralising, or "downsizing" the state, and moving towards more participatory models of government. It examines systems of decentralised development such as self-managing co-operatives from a global and comparative perspective with a focus on developing countries. Drawing on examples from Kerala and a few other states in India, as well as Cuba, Bangladesh and South Africa among other countries, the book offers critical perspectives on the positive impacts of these experiments and the promises these offer for the future. It discusses the challenges of implementing these models, how well these work in coordination with the civil society and the state, issues of transparency and democratic oversight as well as corruption and capture of power due to entrenched structures of inequality. The volume analyses welfare and development models and self-management interventionsin countering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also looks at the meritsand demerits of decentralisation in countering the global socioeconomic and environmental crisis and the rise of authoritarian populism in many countries. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of development studies, political science, business, community development, social justice as well as of co-operative management programmes. It will also appeal to students of political economy as well as development professionals, think tanks and policymakers.

Download or read book Heterodox Economics and Global Emergencies written by Eurydice Fotopoulou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, that they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to address them. Drawing on a variety of heterodox and radical perspectives and global voices, including those from India, Africa, and South America, this collection explores the causes and impacts of global emergencies from a wide array of viewpoints. The first section outlines how the pandemic has shown up the biases of orthodox thought and policy, particularly its Eurocentric and patriarchal focus on the urban, formal economy. It outlines how adding an international dimension to institutional analysis uncovers systematic inequalities in the responses to emergencies, and how new paradigms can provide better alternatives. The massive interventionism worldwide has led to renewed interest in the global financial system, and also in Marxian approaches to money. The second section of the book therefore considers a range of alternative approaches to the study of finance – from Marx to Minsky – which are currently being revisited. The collection concludes with a suggestion for heterodox economics pedagogy, since changing economics education is vital for future dissemination of real-world ideas. The book will be of interest to a variety of researchers and postgraduate students, and lecturers, especially in the fields of development, health, labour and feminist economics, also international political economy and heterodox economics.

Download or read book Coronavirus Disease COVID 19 Pathophysiology Epidemiology Clinical Management and Public Health Response volume I B written by Zisis Kozlakidis and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I.B An outbreak of a respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and the causative agent was discovered in January 2020 to be a novel betacoronovirus of the same subgenus as SARS-CoV and named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly disseminated worldwide, with clinical manifestations ranging from mild respiratory symptoms to severe pneumonia and a fatality rate estimated around 2%. Person to person transmission is occurring both in the community and healthcare settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared the COVID-19 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern. The ongoing outbreak presents many clinical and public health management challenges due to limited understanding of viral pathogenesis, risk factors for infection, natural history of disease including clinical presentation and outcomes, prognostic factors for severe illness, period of infectivity, modes and extent of virus inter-human transmission, as well as effective preventive measures and public health response and containment interventions. There are no antiviral treatment nor vaccine available but fast track research and development efforts including clinical therapeutic trials are ongoing across the world. Managing this serious epidemic requires the appropriate deployment of limited human resources across all cadres of health care and public health staff, including clinical, laboratory, managerial and epidemiological data analysis and risk assessment experts. It presents challenges around public communication and messaging around risk, with the potential for misinformation and disinformation. Therefore, integrated operational research and intervention, learning from experiences across different fields and settings should contribute towards better understanding and managing COVID-19. This Research Topic aims to highlight interdisciplinary research approaches deployed during the COVID-19 epidemic, addressing knowledge gaps and generating evidence for its improved management and control. It will incorporate critical, theoretically informed and empirically grounded original research contributions using diverse approaches, experimental, observational and intervention studies, conceptual framing, expert opinions and reviews from across the world. The Research Topic proposes a multi-dimensional approach to improving the management of COVID-19 with scientific contributions from all areas of virology, immunology, clinical microbiology, epidemiology, therapeutics, communications as well as infection prevention and public health risk assessment and management studies.

Download or read book Coronavirus Politics written by Scott L Greer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.

Download or read book Ethical Implications of COVID 19 Management written by Cheryl Patton and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After this period of living with COVID-19, we have reached the point where we can start evaluating its management. This edited collection focuses on the exploration of the ethical implications of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks into how the decisions on lockdowns, vaccination, masks and QR codes have impacted our lives, our societies and our future. The contributions examine our work habits, our human relationships, our trust in governments and health expertise, resource distribution, the prosperity and leadership of businesses, and the prospective traumas of our children. This is a companion book to The COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethical Challenges and Considerations, also published by Ethics International Press.

Download or read book Gendered Experiences of COVID 19 in India written by Irene George and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, contributors analyze the implications of the pandemic on the informal sector, migrant women workers, women in the health care sector, women’s economic engagement, the experiences of elderly women, mental health care, higher education, and more. Chapters also consider what gender-responsive policies are needed to ensure women’s equal rights, representation, and participation in society during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This timely and relevant volume situates India within the larger global context of conversations around economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic upon gender inequalities This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy makers in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, and Public and Social Policy.

Download or read book The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development written by Maria do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a novel contribution to academic discourses on the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis and how it has impacted societies globally. It proffers an overview on the social development and political measures, from both the Global North and Global South, to prevent COVID-19's spread. It illuminates major social, political and economic challenges that already existed in different contexts and which are also currently being amplified by COVID-19. Curiously, this global pandemic has opened spaces for different actors, across the globe, to begin to fundamentally question and challenge the hegemony of the Global North, which sometimes is evident in social work. Linked to the foregoing and while reflecting beyond the pandemic and into the future, the book proposes that social work must become more political at all levels, and strive to transform societies, global social development efforts, and economic and health systems. This contributed volume of 38 chapters discusses and analyses ethical, social, sociological, social work and social development issues that complement and enrich available literature in the socio-political, economics, public health, medical ethics and political science. It provides various case studies which should enable readers to gain insights into how countries have responded to the pandemic and learn how COVID-19 negatively impacted countries in different parts of the world. This book also provides a platform for the articulation of neglected and marginalized voices, such as those of indigenous populations, the poor, or oppressed. The chapters are grouped according to three main themes as they relate to research on the COVID-19 pandemic and social work in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America: Analysis: Social Issues and the COVID-19 Pandemic Strategies and Responses in Social Work: Globally and Locally Outlook: Looking Ahead Beyond the Pandemic Intended to engage a global, diverse and interdisciplinary audience, The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development is a timely and relevant resource for academics, students and researchers in inter alia Social Work, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, and Development Studies.

Download or read book Textbook of Microbiology and Immunology written by Subhash Chandra Parija and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of “Textbook of Microbiology and Immunology” is an extensively revised edition , a healthy mixture of the old and the new contents. Many of the old traditional chapters have been retained with addition of new information along with the inclusion of new chapters more in line with the on-going changes in the syllabus and concepts in Medical Microbiology .While doing so, this book has blended the traditional organism-based learning and a syndrome based approach to infectious disease, together with the introduction of new and modified chapters incorporating the latest information in this field. The book provides an extensive coverage of fundamental topics in general and medical microbiology. The book also lays due emphasis on clinical microbiology with special focus on syndrome based approach to infectious diseases. It includes the basic concepts of microbiology as well as the recent updates and developments in the field of medical microbiology. All the topics have been incorporated in seven major sections: General microbiology, Immunology, Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology, and Applied and Clinical Microbiology. The dynamic nature of medical sciences with new guidelines and new diagnostic methods coming into the arena necessitates the incorporation of new information in each new edition of a book. This facet has been addressed with the inclusion of recent information on the various aspects of microbiology, infectious diseases and immunology, in the fourth edition of the Textbook of Microbiology and Immunology ,which makes it one of the most authoritative and informative textbooks in medical microbiology. The book is an effort to inform and engage a wide spectrum of readers including medical students , both undergraduates and postgraduates, and residents, and faculty. It aims to be a must-have companion book for graduate and advanced undergraduate as well as postgraduate students of medical microbiology, general and allied microbiology, and of immunology.

Download or read book Life During COVID 19 written by Antara Pandit and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life During COVID-19 is an ode to the world and inspires human connection. This anthology is deeply honest, inspiring & impactful, with stories from frontline workers, social workers, educators, students, parents, entrepreneurs, & athletes, among others. They have come forward to create a reserve of the unforgettable, by sharing experiences which illuminate their journey during the pandemic that has unleashed unimaginable destruction upon the world. These are stories of the unsung hero in every one of us, highlighting survival, gratitude, kindness & compassion, duty & sacrifice, mental health, personal growth & more.

Download or read book LIFE Before Through After COVID 19 written by P.A. Ramachandran and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a biography. But if the pictures scattered in the book are arranged, it will be a good autobiography. This is not a science book, but if the scientific knowledge available in it is collected, it will become a popular science book. This is not a travelogue. This book is a carpet with many strings attached. This Book contains author's ruminations on the eventful professional life spanning over five decades. As an Engineer, he had worked in various capacities in many countries. The author faced many personal challenges along the way. It includes his face-off with scourge of the century, the COVID-19 virus. It culminated during his quarantine. Preceding this home imprisonment, he visited Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Dubai. During these trips, some of his resolute escorts for decades accompanied him. He could never shake them of despite his best efforts. they were diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, Bronchitis, and macular degeneration. His travel to those countries coincided with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in each one of them. It was a quirk of fate as if coronavirus was his pursuit.