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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: COVID-19 in the Environment -- 1.1: Definition and Origin of COVID-19 -- 1.2: Transmission of COVID-19 -- 1.3: Environmental Impacts -- 1.4: Prevention of COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Environmental Fate of COVID-19 -- 2.1: COVID-19 Lifetime on Surfaces -- 2.2: Presence of COVID-19 in Atmospheric Air/Decline in Air Pollution due to COVID-19 Lockdown -- 2.2.1: Presence of COVID-19 in Atmospheric Air -- 2.2.2: Decline in Air Pollution due to COVID-19 Lockdown -- 2.3: Studies of COVID-19 in Sewage Water |
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2.4: Protocols for Managing Health-Care Waste with COVID-19 -- 2.5: Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Health Hazards of COVID-19 -- 3.1: Pathways of Entry of the Virus into the Human Body -- 3.2: Proteins Involved -- 3.3: Effects on Human Health -- Chapter 4: Personal Protective Equipment and Coronavirus Disease -- 4.1: Importance of Using PPE in Disease Prevention -- 4.2: Transmission of Bioaerosols -- 4.3: Standards Currently in Force for PPE -- 4.3.1: Respiratory PPEs -- 4.3.1.1: Masks -- 4.3.1.2: Respirators -- 4.3.1.3: Homemade masks -- 4.4: Results/Effectiveness in Previous Epidemics |
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4.5: PPE Modifications to Combat SARS-CoV-2 -- 4.6: Final Considerations and Perspectives -- Chapter 5: Health Service Waste and COVID-19: Monitoring, Risk Assessment, Approaches, and Challenges -- 5.1: Introduction -- 5.2: Sources, Transport, and Environmental Fate of COVID-19 -- 5.3: Monitoring and Analysis Techniques for COVID-19 -- 5.4: COVID-19 in the Socioeconomic Spectrum -- 5.5: Risk Assessment Tools for COVID-19 -- 5.6: Challenges for COVID-19 -- 5.7: Conclusions and Future Directions -- Chapter 6: Coronavirus: Exposure and Risk to Workers' Health |
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6.1: Historical Trajectory of Occupational Health -- 6.2: Exposure of Workers to the Environment Labor -- 6.3: Risks and Risk Perception -- 6.4: Occupational Exposure and Human Health Risks -- 6.5: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 -- 6.6: Prevention and Control of the Transmission of SARS-Cov-2 within Health Services: Exposure and Occupational Risk -- Chapter 7: Ethical Issues in COVID-19 -- 7.1: Introduction -- 7.2: Ethical Challenges -- 7.3: Risk and Harm: Patients and Tests? -- 7.4: Fake News -- 7.5: Patent Rights for the Common Good: A Necessary Discussion -- 7.6: Conclusion |
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Chapter 8: Brazil against COVID-19: Analysis from a Typology of Public Policies to Face the Pandemic with Development -- 8.1: Public Policies as Instruments of Social Welfare in Territories -- 8.1.1: The Public Policies -- 8.1.2: Public Policies and Development in the COVID-19 Context -- 8.2: Policies of Federated States to Combat the Negative Effects of COVID-19 on Development -- 8.2.1: Contextualization of COVID-19 in Brazil -- 8.2.2: Public Policies Developed by Brazilian Federated States to Fight the Effects of COVID-19 -- 8.2.2.1: COVID-19 in Brazil |
| Summary |
At the end of 2019, the world came across a virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes a disease classified as COVID-19. The virus is highly transmissible and causes an acute respiratory syndrome that ranges from mild symptoms in about 80% cases to very severe symptoms with respiratory failure in 5% to 10% of cases. The epicenter of the outbreak of this pandemic was Wuhan, acity in China's Hubei Province. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic and classified it as a high global risk. Human health risk assessment for COVID-19 depends on the characteristics of the virus and includes the process of gathering and analyzing environmental and health information using specific techniques to support decision making, systematically taking actions, and articulating the collected information within and between sectors for promoting health and improving the social and living conditions of populations. To assess COVID-19 risk factors, it is important to consider and document all relevant information available at the time of assessment. In this way, decision making will get a direction and the assessment process will get recorded, which includes evaluation of the risk factors, control measures, methods used for evaluation, why they were considered important, and their order of priority. This book addresses in detail the challenges posed by the virus and presents up-to-date knowledge on safety risk assessment and economics, as well as ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of COVID-19 |
| Notes |
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories at the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials in environmental protection, analytical chemistry, and various industrial sectors. Dr. Hussain has authored numerous papers published in peer-reviewed journals and edited several scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas, published by Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry, Wiley, and Springer, among others. Gustavo Marques da Costa is a professor with experience in diverse levels of education. His research focuses on the methods used to evaluate the quality of atmospheric air and water in urban areas with an emphasis on nanotechnology, biomonitoring, genotoxicity, and abiotic parameters that can influence the quality of the environment. His other areas of interest are ichthyology, neuroscience, and plant biotechnology. Dr. da Costa is author of several book chapters and scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He is also reviewer of journals focusing on environmental sciences |
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COVID-19 (Disease)
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COVID-19
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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COVID-19 (Disease)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar
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| ISBN |
9781000380972 |
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1000380971 |
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9781003168287 |
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1003168280 |
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9781000380989 |
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100038098X |
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