Abstract
Infectious diseases have been a significant challenge to health and wellbeing from ancient times, with substantial economic implications globally. Despite the advent of technology, infectious diseases continue to affect people of various social statuses and across geographical locations. Understanding some of the drivers of infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy is a step towards thriving in the modern world, achieving fewer morbidities and mortalities, and adequately controlling future pandemics. Pharmacists are strategically placed as healthcare team members to promote early disease control through health education, advocacy, cross-professional and specialty collaboration, communal trust-building, research, and global unity. Not forgetting that infectious diseases in the modern world are about people and science, credible crisis communication during the early phases of disease outbreaks paves the way for well-informed guidance globally.
Highlights
Health and wellbeing concerns across the globe have continued to grow over the past century
Infectious disease is a threat to national and global security, a need to pay attention and fight it early anywhere it is found as our common enemy
Pharmacists have the unique ability to mitigate some of the factors that drive the spread of infectious diseases
Summary
Health and wellbeing concerns across the globe have continued to grow over the past century. As the world’s population increases, so do forest encroachment, urbanization, international travel, migration, etc. Infectious diseases have been in existence for as long as humans have, the world continues to experience a newer but similar dimension of outbreaks that threatens human health. Infectious diseases and outbreaks have implications for health and wellbeing, including adverse morbidity and mortality in infected persons. The world has experienced different epidemics; examples include the COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, Swine flu (H1N1), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), etc. The trends of infectious diseases in the modern world show that infections affect people, cut across geographical locations and boundaries, and transcend time
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