Mi vivencia con covid-19

Mi vivencia con covid-19
Author: Saúl Franco
Publisher: Ediciones Aurora
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2021-02-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9585402521

Jamás nadie imaginó que nos fuera a tocar vivir algo como lo que estamos padeciendo con esta pandemia de COVID-19 producida por el virus SARS-CoV—2. Ni hubo tampoco quién fuera capaz de predecir lo que vendria cuando a finales de 2019 empezaron los primeros casos de una rara enfermedad viral en Wuhan, China. Ni siquiera cuando el 11 de marzo del 2020 el director de la Organización Mundial de la Salud —OMS— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declaró que se trataba de una pandemia llegamos a sospechar su magnitud. Al momento de escribir estas notas es claro que nos encontramos frente al mayor desafío sanitario, económico y socio-político que nos ha tocado y posiblemente nos toque vivir a las actuales generaciones. Y que su fuerza avasalladora está removiendo los cimientos de nuestra manera de ver y vivir la vida, organizarnos en sociedad, relacionarnos los unos con los otros y con las demás especies, y enfrentar las enfermedades y la muerte. Por creer en la importancia de compartir con los lectores, y sin ninguna pretensión de enseñar o ser un caso diferente a los millones de casos de esta pandemia, me atrevo a compartir tanto mi vivencia como las reflexiones iniciales de las columnas periodísticas. Aunque primero escribí las columnas, empiezo estas notas con la vivencia y luego las incluyo al final. Me gustaría que este atrevimiento personal estimulara a otros y otras a compartir también sus vivencias y reflexiones. Es posible que de ese conjunto de ideas y experiencias compartidas surjan algunos elementos para entender y enfrentar mejor la situación y sobre todo para vivir y disfrutar mejor la vida tanto mientras dura como después de la pandemia. Y esto sí amerita y justifica cualquier esfuerzo.

Mi coronavirus.

Mi coronavirus.
Author: Francisco Javier Fresneda Diadosa
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre:
ISBN:

Mi coronavirus. Es un libro de miscelánea. Sobre las vivencias y pensamientos de un tipo sencillo a lo largo del periodo en el que la pandemia asolo España y el mundo. A partir de Marzo de 2020, el gobierno decretó que los españoles estuviesen encerrados en su casa, exceptuando la labor de los servicios esenciales. A modo de diario, el autor va reflejando sus dudas, certezas e historias que van surgiendo a lo largo del tiempo del llamado confinamiento territorial. Destaca la variedad de registros desde el relato hasta el pequeño ensayo, pasando por cuentos, poesía, critica y esparcimiento.Un texto escrito con el pulso de los días, con la vivencia a flor de piel. Trabajo diario hasta completar el libro con la finalización del estado de alarma decretado por el gobierno español. Sin aliento y con nuevas ideas diarias a pesar de la imposibilidad de movimientos. Anhelos y apuntes de la vida en estados anómalos, urgentes. Superación, tenacidad y compromiso. Nació como idea para acompañar a los lectores a través de un blog: Aullidosvitales.blogspot.com. Para así acompañar al personal que lo necesitase, como compañía y entretenimiento en momentos de soledad. También como terapia del escritor para enfrentarse a lo desconocido. Así por el impuso mutuo entre lectores y escritor nació la idea de plasmarlo en un libro para que los tiempos vividos no se olvidaran fácilmente. Y sirva como recuerdo a la pequeña Sara que con dos años difícilmente tendrá atisbos de lo vivido. Dando un ejemplo de adaptación y superación continua.

COVID-19 and Women's Health, 2nd edition

COVID-19 and Women's Health, 2nd edition
Author: Stephen Kennedy
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2832517153

As a result of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the world is facing one of the greatest challenges we have experienced in over a century. The economic consequences for society at large are potentially catastrophic. The health and social care sectors have reacted by providing emergency care on an unprecedented scale, while the scientific community has focused on developing new treatments and a vaccine to prevent future waves of the pandemic. Evidence is emerging to suggest that certain conditions, such as obesity and hypertension, predispose some individuals to a worse outcome if they become infected, and that women may be less likely to die from COVID-19 than men. It is also currently believed that pregnant women are at no greater risk than the general population. There is an urgent need to determine whether these early observations are correct. Furthermore, we need to be sure that pregnancy outcomes are not affected by COVID-19 and that SARS-CoV-2 is not transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy or labour, nor to the infant through breast milk. There are so many questions that need to be answered to optimise care, avoid harm, reduce anxiety amongst women and their families, and inform health professionals and policymakers. We also need to understand the unintended consequences of the global lockdown on women’s health in general. For example, have rates of domestic violence risen; to what extent has women’s mental health been affected and have women successfully adapted or devised new coping mechanisms; have women been denied access to gynaecological treatments during the lockdown, including safe abortion and, if so, with what impact on their health and wellbeing; has the female work-force suffered disproportionately in economic terms; have national and international recommendations and policies been sufficiently gender neutral; have breastfeeding rates been adversely affected; will COVID-19 make attainment of the UN SDGs more difficult, etc.? In keeping with the Scope & Mission of Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, this Research Topic aims to provide a multi-disciplinary platform to answer important COVID-19 related questions that specifically impact upon women’s health and wellbeing, particular in resource-poor settings. The Topic Editors welcome a broad range of contributions including Original Research, Reviews, Commentaries, Study Protocols and Systematic Reviews. We would like to acknowledge Dr. Nathalie MacDermott and Dr. Rhiannon George-Carey who have have acted as coordinators and have contributed to the preparation of the proposal for this Research Topic. ***Given the exceptional nature of the COVID-19 situation, Frontiers is waiving all article publishing charges for COVID-19-related research in this Research Topic. Please note that manuscripts must be submitted by the deadline of December 31st.***

The Inner Work of Age

The Inner Work of Age
Author: Connie Zweig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1644113414

• Award Winner in the Health: Aging/50+ category of the 2021 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest • Award Winner in Non-Fiction: Aging and Gerontology category of the 2021 Best Indie Book Award • Offers shadow-work and many diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, and allow mortality to be a teacher • Reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life • Includes personal interviews with prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Fr. Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof With extended longevity comes the opportunity for extended personal growth and spiritual development. You now have the chance to become an Elder, to leave behind past roles, shift from work in the outer world to inner work with the soul, and become authentically who you are. This book is a guide to help get past the inner obstacles and embrace the hidden spiritual gifts of age. Offering a radical reimagining of age for all generations, psychotherapist and bestselling author Connie Zweig reveals how to use inner work to uncover and explore the unconscious denial and resistance that erupts around key thresholds of later life, attune to your soul’s longing, and emerge renewed as an Elder filled with vitality and purpose. She explores the obstacles encountered in the transition to wise Elder and offers psychological shadow-work and diverse spiritual practices to help you break through denial to awareness, move from self-rejection to self-acceptance, repair the past to be fully present, reclaim your creativity, and allow mortality to be a teacher. Sharing contemplative practices for selfreflection, she also reveals how to discover ways to share your talents and wisdom to become a force for change in the lives of others. Woven throughout with wisdom from prominent Elders, including Ken Wilber, Krishna Das, Father Thomas Keating, Anna Douglas, James Hollis, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Ashton Applewhite, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao, Roger Walsh, and Stanislav Grof, this book offers tools and guidance to help you let go of past roles, expand your identity, deepen self-knowledge, and move through these life passages to a new stage of awareness, choosing to be fully real, transparent, and free to embrace a fulfilling late life.

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Author: Martha Bremser
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2011-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 113682832X

A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact. Those studied include: Jerome Bel Richard Alston Doug Varone William Forsythe Phillippe Decoufle Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Ohad Naharin Itzik Gallili Twyla Tharp Wim Vandekeybus With a new, updated introduction by Deborah Jowitt and further reading and references throughout, this text is an invaluable resource for all students and critics of dance, and all those interested in the fascinating world of choreography.

To Err Is Human

To Err Is Human
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309068371

Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine

Bodies

Bodies
Author: Susie Orbach
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1429918942

Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the way toward a process of healing. Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their bodies. Here Susie Orbach explains the origins of this condition, and examines its implications for all of us. Challenging the Freudian view that bodily disorders originate and progress in the mind, Orbach argues that we should look at self-mutilation, obesity, anorexia, and plastic surgery on their own terms, through a reading of the body itself. Incorporating the latest research from neuropsychology, as well as case studies from her own practice, she traces many of these fixations back to the relationship between mothers and babies, to anxieties that are transferred unconsciously, at a very deep level, between the two. Orbach reveals how vulnerable our bodies are, how susceptible to every kind of negative stimulus--from a nursing infant sensing a mother's discomfort to a grown man or woman feeling inadequate because of a model on a billboard. That vulnerability makes the stakes right now tremendously high. In the past several decades, a globalized media has overwhelmed us with images of an idealized, westernized body, and conditioned us to see any exception to that ideal as a problem. The body has become an object, a site of production and commerce in and of itself. Instead of our bodies making things, we now make our bodies. Susie Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and points the way toward healing and acceptance.