Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats

In an effort to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT project funded development of regional, national, and local One Health capacities for early disease detection, rapid response, disease control, and risk reduction. From the outset, the EPT approach was inclusive of social science research methods designed to understand the contexts and behaviors of communities living and working at human-animal-environment interfaces considered high-risk for virus emergence. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, PREDICT behavioral research aimed to identify and assess a range of socio-cultural behaviors that could be influential in zoonotic disease emergence, amplification, and transmission. This broad approach to behavioral risk characterization enabled us to identify and characterize human activities that could be linked to the transmission dynamics of new and emerging viruses. This paper provides a discussion of implementation of a social science approach within a zoonotic surveillance framework. We conducted in-depth ethnographic interviews and focus groups to better understand the individual- and community-level knowledge, attitudes, and practices that potentially put participants at risk for zoonotic disease transmission from the animals they live and work with, across 6 interface domains. When we asked highly-exposed individuals (ie. bushmeat hunters, wildlife or guano farmers) about the risk they perceived in their occupational activities, most did not perceive it to be risky, whether because it was normalized by years (or generations) of doing such an activity, or due to lack of information about potential risks. Integrating the social sciences allows investigations of the specific human activities that are hypothesized to drive disease emergence, amplification, and transmission, in order to better substantiate behavioral disease drivers, along with the social dimensions of infection and transmission dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is critical to achieving health security--the protection from threats to health-- which requires investments in both collective and individual health security. Involving behavioral sciences into zoonotic disease surveillance allowed us to push toward fuller community integration and engagement and toward dialogue and implementation of recommendations for disease prevention and improved health security

Better Prevention of Covid-19 and Infectious Diseases in Islamic Culture: A Study of Health in Islamic Education

This manuscript aims at delineating the significance of Islamism on health science especially on the contemporary pandemic of COVID-19. The first and foremost objective of this research work is to find out that the daily practice of Islam is the better prevention for the people to be exempted from the diseases that occurred by COVID-19 and other disease-bearing viruses. It also observes that the daily activities in the Islamic religion always keep a man clean and danger-free from coronaviruses that have become a triumphant spirit on the medical science and technology in this digital world. This article is also eager to investigate and accumulate the Islamists’ regular practices which act for them as the medicine of their viral diseases like COVID-19. The research work is done in accordance with the qualitative method. To make this research authentic, information has been collected from different primary and secondary sources: the holy Quran, Hadith, Islamic books, articles from newspapers, journals, etc. Here in the manuscript, the authors have desired to make a result that people should not avoid and ignore Islamism which can keep all human beings lucid, clean, and free from viral diseases especially COVID-19. Finally, the study gives some recommendations on Islam that is scientifically and logically proved and considered as the best religion for keeping health safe and sound in the viral diseases of the contaminated world. &nbsp

Better Prevention of COVID-19 and Infectious Diseases in Islamic Culture: A Study of Islam and Health

This manuscript aims at delineating the significance of Islamism in health science, especially in the contemporary pandemic of COVID-19. The first and foremost objective of this research work is to find out that the daily practice of Islam is better prevention for the people to be exempted from the diseases that occurred by COVID-19 and other disease-bearing viruses. It also observes that the daily activities in the Islamic religion always keep a man clean and danger-free from coronaviruses that have become a triumphant spirit on the medical science and technology in this digital world. This article is also eager to investigate and accumulate the Islamists' regular practices which act for them as the medicine of their viral diseases like COVID-19. The research work is done by the qualitative method. To make this research authentic, information has been collected from different primary and secondary sources: the holy Quran, Hadith, Islamic books, articles from newspapers, journals, etc. Here in the manuscript, the authors have desired to make a result that people should not avoid and ignore Islamism which can keep all human beings lucid, clean, and free from viral diseases, especially COVID-19. Finally, the study gives some recommendations on Islam which is scientifically and logically proven and considered the best religion for keeping health safe and sound in the viral diseases of the contaminated world