Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society : The Continuing Challenge / / edited by Rais Akhtar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910616359403321
• Autore: Akhtar Rais
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031094323; 9783031094316
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 pages)
• Disciplina: 614.592414; 614.5924144
• Soggetti: Environmental geography; Public health; Psychology; Virology; Human geography; Cultural geography; Integrated Geography; Public Health; Behavioral Sciences and Psychology; Human Geography; Social and Cultural Geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1.Introduction -- 2.Under Promise and Over-deliver:The failure of political rhetoric in managing COVID-19 in Australia -- 3. COVID-19 and culture in Papua New Ginea.Failing to meet the challenges of diversity? -- 4.COVID-19 in Fiji: From health and economic to major political crisis -- 5. COVID-19 Vaccination trends and people’s views and action in Japan -- 6. Through the lens of systems thinking:Analyzing the breakdown of a successful COVID-19 mitigation model in Taiwan -- 7.Lessons from COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Hong Kong and South Korea -- 8.Distribution and allocation of vaccines against ; COVID-19 and vaccination communication in Thailand -- 9. Resurgence of COVID-19 in Indonesia:Response to the critical second wave of pandemic -- 10.Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) and vaccine epidemiology in Malaysia -- 11.COVID-19 in Bangladesh:A spatio-Temporal and Gender analysis. -- 12.Crowded out:The pandemic’s toll on non-COVID patients in India -- 13.COVID-19:Work,economic activity and its geo-spatiotemporal distribution in South Africa -- 14. Analyzing the dual nature of responses to COVID-19 in Lusaka city -- 15.COVID-19 patterns and waves in West Africa:A geographical perspective -- 16.Current development and impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy -- 17. The pandemic in France reveals the vulnerability of society -- 18. Without risk? A sociological analysis of the vaccination programme in England -- 19. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: How a mixed welfare regime has responded to the Pandemic. -- 20.COVID-19 in Canada:Vaccination and the effects of the pandemic on health care workers and healthcare systems -- 21.Geographic patterns of COVID-19 vaccination,infection and mortality in the United States during year-two of the pandemic and the influence of political orientation -- 22.COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in young adults and mitigation policies in the United States -- 23. Vaccination in Mexico as a political strategy -- 24. Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic on health services in Argentina -- 25. COVID-19 in Brazil: The experience of collecting citizen data in the city of Rio de Janeiro -- 26.Conclusion and Suggestions.
• Sommario/riassunto: The proposed book comprises 24 chapters by experts from developed and developing countries. The book cover Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and England, USA, West Africa, and Zambia. FOREWORD by David J. Hunter, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, the UK.