Loud and Clear: Combatting Biases in Communicating Risk
As many parts of the world are in stages of reopening, there are varying attitudes concerning individual and societal risk. The issue of...
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svanderperre
Aug 7, 20203 min read
Navigating Ambiguity: Maintaining Trust Despite Changing Guidelines
As much relating to the coronavirus is still unknown, there has been changing information as related to safety guidelines, modes of...
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svanderperre
Aug 7, 20203 min read
Behind the Curve: Understanding and Preparing for Exponential Growth
Following the growth of the pandemic is absolutely essential for those charged with the task of planning for the future of their...
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nishangantayat
Jul 24, 20205 min read
Sustenance of Hand and Respiratory Hygiene Behaviors
It is not just COVID19, but respiratory infections like tuberculosis have long been the leading cause of illness, morbidity, and...
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Final Mile
Jul 14, 20204 min read
Designing Healthcare Spaces for the Next Pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic has put such demands on the modern healthcare system that it has never had to deal with. This experience is likely to...
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Jul 3, 20201 min read
Managing Delinquency in a Post-COVID World
Delinquency is one of the financial services sectors that COVID-19 is bound to have a direct and immediate impact on. Large scale income...
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nishangantayat
Jun 23, 20207 min read
Household Financial Behaviors in times of Crisis
How do households in a crisis, marked with price volatility, employment uncertainty, and complex information alter their savings,...
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Final Mile
Jun 12, 20202 min read
Self-monitoring and Quarantine Behaviors
Monitoring and Self-quarantining A huge challenge from the beginning of the pandemic has been monitoring and self-quarantining. If a...
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Final Mile
Jun 8, 20204 min read
Removing Barriers to Testing and Contact Tracing
Testing and contact tracing are the tip of the spear in the fight against COVID-19. While other strategies to check the spread, such as...
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Final Mile
Jun 5, 20203 min read
The Unresolved Grief of the Bereaved Families
In the current public health crisis amidst Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people have died all over the world leaving behind...
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nishangantayat
Jun 5, 20205 min read
The Unending Cycle of Stigma and its role in a Patient's Journey
Stigmatization hinders health-seeking behavior, foments fear in patients suffering from the condition, causes prejudices against certain...
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Final Mile
May 27, 20204 min read
Phasing and Framing of lockdowns and relaxations: What do they tell us?
As the COVID-19 pandemic is approaching or has surpassed it's peak intensity in a number of countries, governments are rushing to chart...
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Final Mile
May 19, 20202 min read
Risk Perceptions while exiting lockdown
Rapidly changing behaviors while exiting lockdown Repetition of tasks over decades reduced our risk perception towards many daily...
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Final Mile
May 6, 20204 min read
When distance is a privilege: Physical distancing in low income settlements
Tight small spaces with tin roofs, multiple family members including senior citizens housed in a cramped 200 sq ft space, narrow lanes,...
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Final Mile
May 6, 20204 min read
Complying with Physical Distancing
Physical Distancing has become a key requirement to contain the spread of the Coronavirus. But it has been challenging for many societies...
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Final Mile
May 5, 20203 min read
Fatigue and coping with lockdown
Lockdown and Distancing Importance of physical distancing in a pandemic cannot be stressed enough, yet the act itself is very much...
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Final Mile
May 1, 20203 min read
The Vital Role of Essential Workers During Lockdowns
During lockdowns and shelter in place orders, not everyone is afforded the opportunity to work from home. Unfortunately the majority of...
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Final Mile
May 1, 20203 min read
Conundrums of Enforcing Social Distancing
Social or physical distancing has become a catch-all phrase for a wide range of measures undertaken across the world to slow the spread...
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Final Mile
Apr 23, 20201 min read
Risk Compensation: Mitigating “I wear mask so I can go out more often” behaviours
Risk Compensation Once the challenge of adherence to mask wearing is addressed, the next challenge is its implications on other...
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Apr 22, 20203 min read
Why did experts delay mask-usage advisory, contributing to avoidable harm?
Experts and policy makers initially advised against mask usage to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, but many came around to it...
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