Implementation Of Health Measures Research Articles

Self-reported voice difficulties in educational professionals during COVID-19 in Quebec: a cross-sectional mixed-methods study

Background: The health measures imposed by COVID-19 on workplaces created adverse communication settings. Our cross-sectional study aimed to document the nature and severity of the vocal difficulties experienced by educational professionals a few weeks after the implementation of health measures in schools and early childhood settings in Quebec, Canada while teaching in class. Methods: To this end, we conducted a self-report survey containing nine close-ended questions and one open-ended question regarding self-reported vocal difficulties and the implementation of health measures. The survey was answered by 194 educational professionals in October 2020. Results: Since the introduction of the health measures, respondents reported often or always: having difficulty making themselves heard (66.5%), needing to strain their voice (68.1%), having throat pain after work (38.1%), and being concerned about their vocal health (25.2%). 35.6% perceived that their voice changed moderately or a lot and 75.3% did not feel equipped to take care of their vocal health. Fisher's exact tests revealed the difficulties overall were more present in women (p < 0.05). Discussion: The qualitative analysis of open-ended question answers shows a circular process at play, where the vocal responses to the COVID-19-induced communication barriers contribute to creating more problematic communication settings, thus increasing the challenges for vocal health. Better equipping the professionals to take care of their vocal health by developing resources in their professional settings to help them face vocal challenges in both every day as well as extreme situations, should be a priority.

MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY OF HEALTH TOURISM AMONG YOUTH

Literature review is devoted to medical and biological efficiency of health tourism of modern youth, who are characterized by deterioration of health indicators due to the high prevalence of bad habits, lack of knowledge and inexperience in matters of disease prevention, lack of interest in the implementation of health measures and low level of physical activity. The authors describe health tourism as one of the most effective and attractive means of health improvement due to high availability to the youth and fitness of a big part of the territory of the Russian Federation for tourist activities. They consider it as the basis of a healthy lifestyle able to affect on its quality and duration, as well as disease prevention. Healthcare effect of sports and health tourism is greatly enhanced by the fact that they are carried out mainly in the green forest countryside or urban parkland. Physical activity in the conditions of the forest or parkland landscapes provides favorable effect of flora, bioclimate, topography and the picturesque landscape terrain, aimed at disadaptation prevention and improving the general non-specific resistance. Health tourism is similar in its healthcare effect to a sanatorium resort climate landscape therapy, being actually its variation. The health improvement process in both cases is a highly active motor activity, which improves mental performance, the level of the functional state of the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems, forms a harmonious constitution. Physical activity in the forest or parkland offers a man a rare opportunity to approach nature, observe and appreciate its beauty.

Organization of medical rehabilitation of veterans of wars in the context of social support of senior generation in Russia

Tasks of the organization of medical care at the present stage lie in the effective and economical use of available health care resources and in the increase of the accessibility and improvement of the quality of medical services. The effectiveness ofprovision of medical services to veterans is based on the systematic monitoring and permanent implementation of health measures aimed on social support of the older generation, along with the maintenance and preservation of health. Emerging trends of population aging as a complex phenomenon of the general civilizational character, reflect at the same time the results of the sequential implementation of legislation in relation to older people in the Russian Federation at Federal, regional and municipal levels. In the current socio-economic conditions on the territory of the Rostov region (RR) there was created and developed and a comprehensive system of rehabilitation ofdisabled persons. In the article there is highlighted the activity of the RR "Hospital for veterans of wars", which in the region is the only the state institution intendedfor the provision of specialized medical care to participants and invalids of the Great Patriotic War and equivalent categories of the population