Showing posts with label Health behaviors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health behaviors. Show all posts

Friday, 21 March 2025

Human Behaviors and Social Dynamics in Primary Prevention Failures During Pandemics: A Narrative Review of Behavioral and Systemic Challenges in Primary Prevention | Chapter 4 | Disease and Health: Research Developments Vol. 6

Aims: This study explores psychosocial and philosophical aspects of pandemic prevention and dissemination, focusing on the current COVID-19 pandemic. It examines why individuals resist primary prevention measures during pandemics despite awareness of the risks and identifies cognitive biases influencing such decisions.

Study Design: This narrative review synthesizes existing literature and integrates findings from our prior research on pandemic psychology and philosophy. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the behavioral and social aspects of pandemic dissemination and integrate it with the current literature on pandemic psychology and philosophy.

Methodology: We conducted a narrative review, combining our previous research with relevant studies to develop a unified model explaining health behaviors related to pandemic prevention. A meta-ethnographical approach helped us condense the relevant literature.

Conclusion: The current literature and our research show that pandemic prevention is not always endorsed by part of the population due to underlying cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors. Our findings reveal that primary prevention of pandemics needs further understanding of peoples’ motives and reasons for declining to adopt measures to protect themselves.

 

Author (s) Details

Carlo Lazzari
International Centre for Healthcare and Medical Education, London, UK.

 

Marco Rabottini
International Centre for Healthcare and Medical Education, London, UK.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/dhrd/v6/4554

Monday, 16 January 2023

Global Perspectives of Different Healthcare Systems and Health: Income, Education, Health Disparity, Health Behaviors and Public Health in China, Japan and USA| Chapter 7 | Current Overview on Disease and Health Research Vol. 8

 Increasing communal healthcare spending on account of an aging popu­lation is a rising burden on humankind and the economy. Under pres­sure to increase healthcare systems, it is important to judge dif­ferent healthcare systems containing the national healthcare scheme in China, the universal healthcare system in Japan, and the assorted healthcare system in the USA. In the various health insurance frameworks, it is authoritative to shift from a cost-based commission-for-ser­vice system to a charge levied by government on property system. Health insurance is generally created to mitigate monetary burden, which leads to equality of healthcare duty access and accordingly prevent health prejudice. From a public health outlook, health instruction improves health knowl­edge and ability which is deeply associated with an improvement of strength literacy. An increase in energy literacy levels is had connection with a healthy lifestyle, and before an increase in the health of the community and sustainable notional outputs.This research attempts to address the questions that arise when changeful health procedures, i.e. healthcare system, on fitness consider­ing the effects of distinctness in income, educational level, and energy behaviors on fitness and health difference.Objective: The purposes of this study are: (1) to empirically iden­tify administrative preferences about safeguard behaviors, i.e. conscience cancer stop by different medical insurance framework; (2) to evaluate difference of health effects, i.e. different healthcare payment; and (3) to investigate energy outcome difference based on income and instruction in the different healthcare orders among China, Japan and the USA.Methodology and Data: A Bivariate Probit model is used by con­trolling for socio-business-related, demographic and healthcare expenditure factors to investigate fitness outcomes by various healthcare pro­grams in China, Japan and the USA. The data emanates the Chi­na Economic, Population, Nutrition, and Health Survey 2011 Adult Questionnaire [about 30 thousand samples]; The Global Centers of Excellence (COE) Survey [about 5.5 thousand samples] conducted in 2011 by Osaka University in Japan; and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2013, US [about 50 thousand samples]. Logit and OLS regression studies were conducted to analyze health and healthcare prevention conducts and income and energy dispar­ity.Results: The findings plan that there is clear-cut evidence about actions of preventive care by various health insurance frame­works among the three nations; an objective measure of health concerned with manner of behaving outcomes (feelings cancer prevention) is considerably in­fluenced by different healthcare payment and policy; A nation accompanying health difference (general fitness) is based on income prejudices and different instructional level causes health disparity. Healthy behavior stems from higher well-being knowledge and depends on engrossment by a modern and market-familiarize healthcare delivery with the three countries.Conclusions/Implications: A development of human capital, that is health stock, will humble government healthcare giving. Insur­ance coverage is an important determinant to increase the health of the people, i.e. longevity. Managed healthcare expenditure is a strate­gic policy to force ever-rising healthcare costs.

Author(s) Details:

Tetsuji Yamada,
Department of Economics, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA.

Chia Ching Chen,
Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences & Practice, New York Medical College, New York, USA.

Weihong Zeng,
Jinhe Center for Economic Research, Center for Aging and Health Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China.

Barret Levine,
School of Law, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA.

John M. Carter,
Economics and Computer Science, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CODHR-V8/article/view/9031