Dhai, A. Pandemics and healthcare: principles, processes and practice. – Juta, 2022.
ISBN: 9781485131748
Summary provided by the publisher:
“It became clear soon after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, that not much was known about the management of pandemics in the current healthcare context. This topic had previously received little to no attention in health sciences and other training curricula.
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, many critical issues arise impacting on teaching, learning, and healthcare delivery through the spectrum of primary to quaternary care, public health and the social determinants of health. This peer reviewed volume brings together many of the lessons learnt from the outset of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in an attempt to equip pandemic planning and prevention programmes as we move into the future. The book has brought together a total of 56 authors with expertise in medicine, health care, social sciences, health economics, ethics and the law to share their experiences and directions as we reposition ourselves into the years to follow. It has been edited by eminent leaders in their disciplines.”
Partial contents include:
Introduction to pandemics and healthcare
Pandemics: global health security
An overview of ethical issues in the context of pandemics and healthcare
Selected medico-legal issues relating to South Africa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Health research, ethics and pandemics: challenges and recommendations
The role of the news media during pandemics
Corruption, leadership and the corrosion of public health system capabilities in South Africa
An understanding of the supply, distribution and use of personal protective equipment during pandemics
Pandemics, health equity and the social determinants of health
Pandemics: managing psychosocial dimensions for the public good
Why health economics input and other economic consideration are necessary when managing pandemics
Curriculum change and teaching innovations in health sciences: an essential requirement in the era of pandemics
eHealth in the era of pandemics
Data science and artificial intelligence in the management of COVID-19
The Gauteng Department of Health, a showcase
The development of vaccines and immunological therapies in pandemics
Epidemiology, diagnostics and surveillance: applications during pandemics
COVID-19 in South Africa: Lessons from implementing a new national hospital surveillance platform
Mental health, psychiatric disease, and COVID-19 in urban South Africa
Pandemics and primary health care
Pandemics and critical care
Pandemics and management of infectious diseases
Pandemics and paediatrics
Provision of maternal and reproductive healthcare services during pandemics
Pandemics and the surgical disciplines.
Price: R511.00 excluding delivery, including VAT.
The book can be ordered from the Lexinfo Book Supply Service by sending an email to books@lexinfo.co.za
Date posted: 9 February 2022
Updated: 9 January 2024