{"id":102,"date":"2022-01-05T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/?p=102"},"modified":"2022-01-05T04:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:12:52","slug":"covid-19s-impacts-on-good-health-and-well-being-health-emergency-preparedness-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/2022\/01\/05\/covid-19s-impacts-on-good-health-and-well-being-health-emergency-preparedness-is-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID 19\u2019s impacts on Good Health and Well-being:  Health Emergency Preparedness is the Key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sustainable Goal #3&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; Good Health and Well-Being<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Some vital \u2018GoalTtargets\u2019 include&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Development and Universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><em>Reduce maternal mortality<\/em><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><em>Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases<\/em><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><em>Support research, development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the pandemic, major progress was made in improving the health of millions of people.&nbsp; Significant progress has been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the leading causes of child and maternal mortality.&nbsp; (UN, 2021).&nbsp; It was until the Pandemic existed and posed a global risk that has shaken the world to wake up for a critical need for \u201cHEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.\u201d&nbsp; The opportunity of health emergency preparedness may have saved millions of lives if was efficient and persistent to meet the challenges of COVID-19.&nbsp; For instance, there were recommendations from World Health Organisations (WHO) for world leaders to consider in trying to sustain and make progress on well-being and good health of its citizens at all ages,(Sustainable Goal #3) such as;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&nbsp;develop policy guidance for mitigating outbreaks when health system becomes overwhelmed<\/li><li>Scale up support to frontline health workers.<\/li><li>Communicate regularly to the public through trusted experts.&nbsp; Panic, fear and misinformation exacerbate preparedness and cost lives.<\/li><li>Increase and sustain domestic and global preparedness investments.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>More investment in vaccines, treatments and diagnostics is urgently needed if we are to have the best chance of saving lives and bringing this pandemic to an end.&nbsp; At least $8 billion is required to fund research, development and distribution of treatments for all, as well as support for public health measures in the poorest countries.&nbsp; (Wellcome, 2020).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/01\/Wellcome.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" width=\"578\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/01\/Wellcome.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/01\/Wellcome-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><figcaption><br><br><br><br><em>Source : Wellcome, 2020.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another example of increasing and sustaining domestic and global preparedness investments is from the Government of Bhutan.&nbsp; World Health Organisations (WHO) released an article for the world to learn a lesson from Bhutan which titled, \u201cInvest in preparedness.\u201d&nbsp; Bhutan\u2019s zero deaths and zero infections among health workers and low overall infection rates and high patient recovery resulted from preparation.&nbsp; (WHO, 2020).&nbsp; A representative from Bhutan stated that the country\u2019s record in the fight against Covid-19 was the result of diligent preparation and a timely response to the pandemic health emergency.&nbsp; Examples of preparation in Bhutan are setting up a health emergency operations centre as well as a WHO emergency operations centre in Bhutan.&nbsp; Also, preparation was investing in equipment such as medical camp kit (MCK) and tents.&nbsp; (WHO, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another message to the world from the UN pointed out,&nbsp; \u201cThe pandemic represents a watershed moment for health emergency preparedness and for investment in critical 21<sup>st<\/sup> century public services.\u201d&nbsp; (UN, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the Global targets for increasing and sustaining well-being and good health sustainable goals put emphasis on development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines, reducing maternal mortality, reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases and support research, support research, development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines.&nbsp; (UN, 2017).&nbsp; In accordance with results from a review which indicated that patients with certain chronic illnesses such as diabetes and other chronic diseases are more likely to be affected by Covid-19.&nbsp; (Nikoloski., et al, 2021).&nbsp; Supporting and reinforcing the understanding of healthy, nutritious and diversified diets in communities increases the health of its members and lowers the occurrence of some nutrition related pre-existing conditions that have been shown to increase severity of symptoms caused by COVID-19, such as overweight and obesity potentially leading to diabetes type 2.&nbsp; (WHO, 2021).&nbsp; Back to well-being and good health of people at all ages from Covid-19 need government approach and all of society approach.&nbsp; Readiness and working together are more important than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/01\/bmj.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/01\/bmj.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2022\/01\/bmj-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption><em>Source: BMJ, 2021<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>References&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/cb3114en\/cb3114en.pdf\">https:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/cb3114en\/cb3114en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/health\/\">https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/health\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/expert-recommendations-us-and-global-preparedness-covid-19\">https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/expert-recommendations-us-and-global-preparedness-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.org\/news\/urgent-investment-needed-diagnostics-treatments-and-vaccines-end-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus\">https:\/\/wellcome.org\/news\/urgent-investment-needed-diagnostics-treatments-and-vaccines-end-covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/feature-stories\/detail\/invest-in-preparedness-health-emergency-readiness-lessons-from-bhutan\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/feature-stories\/detail\/invest-in-preparedness-health-emergency-readiness-lessons-from-bhutan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Goal #3&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; Good Health and Well-Being Some vital \u2018GoalTtargets\u2019 include&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Development and Universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines Reduce maternal mortality Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases Support research, development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Before the pandemic, major progress was made in improving the health of millions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/2022\/01\/05\/covid-19s-impacts-on-good-health-and-well-being-health-emergency-preparedness-is-the-key\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID 19\u2019s impacts on Good Health and Well-being:  Health Emergency Preparedness is the Key<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pab5102"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/atelina-kailea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}