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Public Health Unpacked

Public Health Unpacked

By: Emmanuel Joseph Fong (MD MPH DrPH)
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 Unpacking Public Health and Community Medicine topics into digestible chunks. Questions, comments, suggestions welcomed at https://www.facebook.com/PublicHealthUnpacked Thank you. Background music credits to Tim Moor from Pixabay.© 2024 Emmanuel Joseph Fong Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Physical Illness & Disease
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  • PHU 010: Dengue Fever - NO Aedes NO Dengue

    PHU 010: Dengue Fever - NO Aedes NO Dengue
    Mar 15 2022

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    DENGUE fever - "No Aedes, No Dengue"

    Today we'll unpack a totally preventable, vector-borne disease --> Dengue Fever.

    However, as one of the NTDs, Dengue disproportionately affects those who are marginalized, have poor socio-economic status, and less favorable social determinants of health.

    Along with current climate crisis, this vector-borne disease will see expansion into previously naïve community and geographic location --> causing outbreaks, morbidity and mortality.

    BONUS - 15th JUNE is ASEAN Dengue Day

    Link to episode on Social Determinants of Health (SDH)
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1729639/episodes/8512323

    Link to episode on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1729639/episodes/9976683


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    TimMoor from Pixabay

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    16 mins
  • PHU 009: NTD Neglected Tropical Diseases

    PHU 009: NTD Neglected Tropical Diseases
    Jan 30 2022

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    World NTD Day - 30th January

    Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) are a group of diseases that has high morbidity burden to the population with which it affects.

    NTD forms a compounding problem for those already disadvantaged population and groups. COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine maldistribution is another reflection of the underlying inequity in access and care, where you find vaccine inequity, there lies NTDs as well.

    Addressing NTD is the right thing to do.

    Link to episode on Social Determinants of Health (SDH)
    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1729639/episodes/8512323

    More resources:
    https://www.who.int/health-topics/neglected-tropical-diseases#tab=tab_1
    https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-ntd-day

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    TimMoor from Pixabay

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    6 mins
  • PHU 008: Post-vaccination era, Endemic Phase of the COVID19 Pandemic

    PHU 008: Post-vaccination era, Endemic Phase of the COVID19 Pandemic
    Oct 11 2021

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    We are now (October 2021) in the post-vaccination era.

    The emergence of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV 2 virus has made the endemicity of this pandemic an inevitable outcome.

    We will enter into the endemic phase of the pandemic and must live with the virus while balancing other dimensions of this pandemic, such as balancing life and livelihoods.

    Join me as we unpack the above, stay safe and take care!




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