COVID-19: How to Reduce Some Environmental and Social Impacts?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Julia Sader; Marie-Claude Audétat; Christian Voirol
- Source
- Annals of Global Health, Vol 86, Iss 1 (2020)
Annals of Global Health, Vol. 86, No 1 (2020) P. 139
Annals of Global Health
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
ddc:174.957
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Attitude of Health Personnel
Population
Pneumonia, Viral
Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
0302 clinical medicine
Viewpoint
ddc:610/370
Pandemic
medicine
Humans
Recycling
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics/prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral/transmission
Social Change
education
Personal protective equipment
Pandemics
Personal Protective Equipment
Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology
Occupational Health
ddc:613
education.field_of_study
Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections/transmission
SARS-CoV-2
030503 health policy & services
Public health
Perspective (graphical)
Social change
COVID-19
General Medicine
Risk analysis (engineering)
Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology
Business
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
0305 other medical science
Coronavirus Infections
Environmental Health
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2214-9996
The proposed viewpoint seems important at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the COVID-19 prevention strategies implemented in the population are based on medical paradigms that generate extremely deleterious social and environmental impacts. Using the occupational health and safety perspective - taking care of myself with recyclables PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) - in place of the medical perspective - taking care of others with disposable PPE - can help to influence and support this important public health reflection.