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Loud and Clear: Combatting Biases in Communicating Risk
As many parts of the world are in stages of reopening, there are varying attitudes concerning individual and societal risk. The issue of...
svanderperre
Aug 17, 20206 min read
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Navigating Ambiguity: Maintaining Trust Despite Changing Guidelines
As much relating to the coronavirus is still unknown, there has been changing information as related to safety guidelines, modes of...
svanderperre
Aug 7, 20203 min read
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Behind the Curve: Understanding and Preparing for Exponential Growth
Following the growth of the pandemic is absolutely essential for those charged with the task of planning for the future of their...
svanderperre
Aug 7, 20203 min read
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Sustenance of Hand and Respiratory Hygiene Behaviors
It is not just COVID19, but respiratory infections like tuberculosis have long been the leading cause of illness, morbidity, and...
nishangantayat
Jul 24, 20205 min read
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Designing Healthcare Spaces for the Next Pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic has put such demands on the modern healthcare system that it has never had to deal with. This experience is likely to...
Final Mile
Jul 14, 20204 min read
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Healthcare Provider Behavior: Key to sustainable health systems during crisis
The 21st century’s first pandemic has exposed gaps in the entire healthcare system, be it the upstream functions surrounding stocks and...
nishangantayat
Jul 14, 20205 min read
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Self-monitoring and Quarantine Behaviors
Monitoring and Self-quarantining A huge challenge from the beginning of the pandemic has been monitoring and self-quarantining. If a...
Final Mile
Jun 12, 20202 min read
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Removing Barriers to Testing and Contact Tracing
Testing and contact tracing are the tip of the spear in the fight against COVID-19. While other strategies to check the spread, such as...
Final Mile
Jun 8, 20204 min read
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The Unending Cycle of Stigma and its role in a Patient's Journey
Stigmatization hinders health-seeking behavior, foments fear in patients suffering from the condition, causes prejudices against certain...
nishangantayat
Jun 5, 20205 min read
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Ensuring safety and keeping the joy alive: Reopening the recreational spaces as lockdown eases
Public recreational spaces including parks, beaches, playgrounds, community centers etc. play a very important role in the social life of...
Final Mile
May 22, 20205 min read
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Risk Perceptions while exiting lockdown
Rapidly changing behaviors while exiting lockdown Repetition of tasks over decades reduced our risk perception towards many daily...
Final Mile
May 19, 20202 min read
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When distance is a privilege: Physical distancing in low income settlements
Tight small spaces with tin roofs, multiple family members including senior citizens housed in a cramped 200 sq ft space, narrow lanes,...
Final Mile
May 6, 20204 min read
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Complying with Physical Distancing
Physical Distancing has become a key requirement to contain the spread of the Coronavirus. But it has been challenging for many societies...
Final Mile
May 6, 20204 min read
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Fatigue and coping with lockdown
Lockdown and Distancing Importance of physical distancing in a pandemic cannot be stressed enough, yet the act itself is very much...
Final Mile
May 5, 20203 min read
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Supporting the Development of a New Norm - Mask Wearing
We are in need of a new set of norms around wearing masks in public. Mask wearing has already been established as a norm in many East...
Final Mile
Apr 22, 20203 min read
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Why did experts delay mask-usage advisory, contributing to avoidable harm?
Experts and policy makers initially advised against mask usage to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but many came around to it...
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Apr 22, 20203 min read
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Providing Feedback to Promote Long Term Adherence
Long-term lockdown and shelter in place orders take their toll on us all. Leadership needs to provide feedback not just on the number of...
Final Mile
Apr 16, 20202 min read
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Leveraging Elements of Control, Connection and Distraction during Ongoing Isolation
The majority of us are facing long periods of lockdowns and shelter in place orders. This abrupt shift to a new normal takes a toll on...
Final Mile
Apr 15, 20201 min read
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