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A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem
An “epidemic” is an event in which a disease, infectious or non-infectious, is actively spreading within a population and designated area. The term “pandemic” is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large num...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34167911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2021.04.005 |
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author | Graham, Simon Matthew Laubscher, Maritz Lalloo, David G. Harrison, William James Maqungo, Sithombo |
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description | An “epidemic” is an event in which a disease, infectious or non-infectious, is actively spreading within a population and designated area. The term “pandemic” is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has not been seen since the outbreak of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the early eighties. But there is another unseen pandemic running alongside the current COVID-19 pandemic, which affects a vast number of people, crossing international boundaries and occurring in every single country worldwide. The pandemic of traumatic injuries. Traumatic injuries account for 11% of the current Global Burden of Disease, resulting in nearly 5 million deaths annually and is the third-leading cause of death worldwide. For every trauma-related death, it is estimated that up to 50 people sustain permanent or temporary disabilities. Furthermore, traumatic injuries occur at disproportionately higher rates in low- and middle-income countries, with approximately 90% of injuries and more than 90% of global deaths from injury occurring these countries. Injuries are increasing worldwide, crossing international boundaries and affecting a large number of people, in the same manner Human Immunodeficiency Virus did in the 1980's and COVID-19 is today. The tremendous global effort to tackle the COVID-19 and Human Immunodeficiency Virus pandemics has occurred whilst ignoring the comparable pandemic of injury. Without change and future engagement with policy makers and international donors this disparity is likely to continue. |
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spelling | pubmed-93008452022-07-21 A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem Graham, Simon Matthew Laubscher, Maritz Lalloo, David G. Harrison, William James Maqungo, Sithombo Surgeon Article An “epidemic” is an event in which a disease, infectious or non-infectious, is actively spreading within a population and designated area. The term “pandemic” is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has not been seen since the outbreak of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the early eighties. But there is another unseen pandemic running alongside the current COVID-19 pandemic, which affects a vast number of people, crossing international boundaries and occurring in every single country worldwide. The pandemic of traumatic injuries. Traumatic injuries account for 11% of the current Global Burden of Disease, resulting in nearly 5 million deaths annually and is the third-leading cause of death worldwide. For every trauma-related death, it is estimated that up to 50 people sustain permanent or temporary disabilities. Furthermore, traumatic injuries occur at disproportionately higher rates in low- and middle-income countries, with approximately 90% of injuries and more than 90% of global deaths from injury occurring these countries. Injuries are increasing worldwide, crossing international boundaries and affecting a large number of people, in the same manner Human Immunodeficiency Virus did in the 1980's and COVID-19 is today. The tremendous global effort to tackle the COVID-19 and Human Immunodeficiency Virus pandemics has occurred whilst ignoring the comparable pandemic of injury. Without change and future engagement with policy makers and international donors this disparity is likely to continue. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Scottish charity number SC005317) and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 2022-08 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9300845/ /pubmed/34167911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2021.04.005 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Scottish charity number SC005317) and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Graham, Simon Matthew Laubscher, Maritz Lalloo, David G. Harrison, William James Maqungo, Sithombo A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem |
title | A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem |
title_full | A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem |
title_fullStr | A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem |
title_full_unstemmed | A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem |
title_short | A tale of three pandemics: Shining a light on a hidden problem |
title_sort | tale of three pandemics: shining a light on a hidden problem |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9300845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34167911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2021.04.005 |
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