Coronavirus disease and basic sanitation: too early to be worried?

Silva, Renata Rocha da; Santos, Márcio Bezerra; Santos, Allan Dantas dos; Tavares, Débora dos Santos; Santos, Priscila Lima dos

doi:10.1590/0037-8682-0345-2020

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“…The other results show that environmental sustainability regulations would be supportive enough to minimize coronavirus cases’ possible re-occurrence. Its possibly be minimized by improving the health hygiene of the patients (Ung 2020 ), increasing nutritional diets and supplements (BourBour et al 2020 ), proper healthcare counselling (Brownstone et al 2020 ), (Silva et al 2020 ) and mitigating air pollution (Saha and Chouhan 2020 ). The commercialization activities exacerbate new infectious cases; however, its effect can be minimized through an increase in ease in economic policies to support the healthcare agenda (Shereen et al 2020 ).…”

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Does improvement in the environmental sustainability rating help to reduce the COVID-19 cases? Controlling financial development, price level and carbon damages

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Hyder

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The study’s objective is to evaluate the impact of environmental sustainability rating, financial development, changes in the price level and carbon damages on the new COVID-19 cases in a cross-sectional panel of 17 countries. The study developed two broad models to analyse the relationship between the stated factors at the current level and forecast level. The results show that improvement in the environmental sustainability rating and financial efficiency reduces the COVID-19 cases, while continued economic growth and changes in price level likely to exacerbate the COVID-19 cases across countries. The forecast results suggest the U-shaped relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages controlling financial development, price level and environmental sustainability rating. The variance decomposition analysis shows that carbon damages, environmental sustainability rating and price level changes will largely influence COVID-19 cases over the next year. The soundness of economic and ecological regulated policies would be helpful to contain coronavirus cases globally.

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Does improvement in the environmental sustainability rating help to reduce the COVID-19 cases? Controlling financial development, price level and carbon damages

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“…Betany and colleagues estimated in their study that more than one billion people worldwide go outside to get the water they need and that 9% of the world's population defecates outdoors and 8% (627 million) use a facility shared with at least another one (Caruso & Freeman, 2020). However, Renata et al stated that the incidence and morbidity of COVID-19 are significantly related to the overall index of safe water supply services, as well as the rate of mortality with wastewater treatment index (Silva et al 2020). These hypotheses are based on the suspicion of the oral fecal transmission of COVID-19 and indicate that the lack of sanitary water and adequate sanitation facilities increase the rate of mortality and the incidence of COVID-19 cases; we must keep in mind that there are many other factors that contribute to this method of transmission.…”

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“…Some people have been infected with COVID-19 without contact with infected people, indicating other modes of transmission (Odih et al 2020). The virus can attack the gastrointestinal tract directly through the angiotensin converting enzyme 2, and the virus has also been found in the fecal samples of newly discharged patients (Silva et al 2020). In areas that do not have adequate sanitation facilities, there are feces around the sewage (Odih et al 2020), and it enters the surface water and pollutes it, so it is essential to provide people with a sanitary toilet (Purnama and Susanna, 2020).…”

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Correlation between environmental factors and COVID-19 indices: a global level ecological study

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Rezaei

Jokari

et al. 2021

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This global level ecological study aimed to investigate the correlation between environmental factors and the COVID-19 indices. This survey is an ecological study, so all studied variables are aggregate variables. To collect the variables in the study, a data set was provided, which includes the information of each country based on the cumulative deaths, case fatality rate, recovery rate, and the number of performed COVID-19 tests. Scatter plots of environmental factors for the studied countries were drawn based on cumulative incidence rate of cases, cumulative incidence rate of death, tests, recovery rate, and case fatality rate of COVID-19. Furthermore, Spearman correlation coefficient was also used to verify the correlation between environmental factors and indicators related to COVID-19. The results of this ecological study showed that among all countries surveyed, Montenegro (60,310.56 per million) and Luxembourg (54,807.89 per million) had the highest cumulative incidence rates of COVID-19 cases, when Tanzania (8.42 per million) and Vietnam (13.78 per million) had the lowest cumulative incidence rates of COVID-19. In addition, in this study, it was shown that the cumulative incidence rate of cases, the cumulative incidence rate of deaths, and performed COVID-19 tests had significant direct correlations with the access to drinking water and the access to sanitation services (p < 0.001). The findings of the present study showed an inverse correlation between the mortality rate due to unhealthy water consumption, poor health status, and a positive correlation between access to drinking water and health services with the cumulative incidence and mortality rates of COVID-19. The differences between our findings and many other studies could be due to the ecological nature of the study. Nevertheless, our findings will help health policymakers to develop timely strategies to reduce the mortality and incidence rate of COVID-19.

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“…Thereby, these regional disparities and ecological variations reflect the number of cases and deaths from schistosomiasis throughout the country [ 5 , 7 , 24 ]. Hereupon, the Northeast region still presents precarious indicators of drinking water supply and sewerage system, and in accessing to specialized health services, mainly in inland cities [ 6 , 25 ]. In addition to promoting the maintenance of the parasite's transmission cycle, these conditions cause delays in the diagnosis and timely treatment of ill patients.…”

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Basic and associated causes of schistosomiasis-related mortality in Brazil: A population-based study and a 20-year time series of a disease still neglected

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Background Schistosomiasis is a persistent public health problem in Brazil. Regardless advances in diagnosis and mass treatment, schistosomiasis has a severe impact on morbimortality in the country and remains a neglected tropical disease. Herein, we assessed the basic and associated causes of schistosomiasis-related deaths and the temporal and spatial patterns of mortality from the disease in Brazil between 1999 and 2018. Methods We conducted an ecological and time series study. The segmented log-linear regression model was applied to assess time trends, considering all deaths recorded in the category B65/ICD-10. Additionally, we elaborated maps of mortality rates from schistosomiasis in Brazil. Results A total of 4168 schistosomiasis-related deaths were recorded in Brazil in this period, as an associated cause. Time trend analysis revealed an increase in the average age of deaths from schistosomiasis (annual percentage change (APC) = 0.84), and stable trend in Brazil (APC = 0.31). Concerning schistosomiasis-related deaths, we observed disorders related to the digestive system, liver diseases, septicemias, and chronic diseases. Surprisingly, there were deaths caused by non-endemic Schistosoma species in Brazil. Also, municipalities from non-endemic areas in Brazil presented schistosomiasis-related deaths. Conclusion Altogether, our analyses demonstrated that schistosomiasis remains a significant cause of death in Brazil, and it is increasing in some areas, especially in the Northeast region. Additionally, women and the elderly showed a stable time trend of deaths. Thereby, it urgently requires improvements in the control programs strategies, in the sense of an effective reduction in cases and deaths from the disease in Brazil.

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Coronavirus disease and basic sanitation: too early to be worried?

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Does improvement in the environmental sustainability rating help to reduce the COVID-19 cases? Controlling financial development, price level and carbon damages

Does improvement in the environmental sustainability rating help to reduce the COVID-19 cases? Controlling financial development, price level and carbon damages

Correlation between environmental factors and COVID-19 indices: a global level ecological study

Basic and associated causes of schistosomiasis-related mortality in Brazil: A population-based study and a 20-year time series of a disease still neglected

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