COVID-19: Health and Hygiene
A special issue of Hygiene (ISSN 2673-947X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 32994
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Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invites you to contribute to this Special Issue on COVID-19: Health and Hygiene.
The first cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were reported in China in December 2019. Since then, the pandemic has rapidly spread across continents, changing everyday life as we know it. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020. The virus causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), which is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality in the acute phase.
The spread of COVID-19 is a global health emergency, with the health authorities of all countries involved in an attempt to fight this new pandemic. The social, clinical, and economic impacts of the virus are huge. Many aspects of the infection have been studied by researchers worldwide, and available epidemiological, clinical, and impact data have been used to propose preventive interventions. While research into the COVID-19 virus is continuing, we know that the virus is transmitted through direct contact with respiratory droplets from an infected person (through coughing and sneezing) and by touching surfaces contaminated with the virus. Unfortunately, the spread of the virus is ongoing, despite the application of very restrictive preventive interventions, including social distancing, wearing of protective masks, hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, travel restrictions, home schooling, and home working.
Close observance of the rules issued by the WHO and other international bodies is essential, as it is pivotal to understand in more detail the dynamics involved in the spread of the virus in order to identify new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, including the development of a vaccine. While individual hygiene is the key to diminishing the spread of the virus between persons, the main challenge comes from the huge variety of regulations that have been enforced at local and national levels in an attempt to fight this new pandemic, limiting the comparability of outcomes and virus dynamics.
This Special Issue aims to publish evidence and observations in this field related to hygiene, microbiological aspects, epidemiology, clinical aspects, case management, lab diagnosis, immunology, therapeutic options, vaccine design and development, public health approaches, preventive measures, and communication.
We welcome the submission of reviews, original research articles, short communications, systematic reviews, and case studies targeting any of these core research issues, as the main goal of this Special Issue is to address some of the core research questions related to health and hygiene during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Daniela Haluza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- environment
- outbreak
- epidemics
- COVID-19 prevention, treatment, and mitigation
- health inequities
- social determinants of health
- history of infectious diseases and pandemics
- risk assessment methodology
- risk management plans
- risk communication
- interventions
- epidemiology
- microbiology
- immunology
- clinical aspects
- therapeutic options
- lab diagnosis
- preventive measures
- case management
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