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Type of Article:  Short Communication

Volume 8; Issue 2 (April 2020)

Page No.: 3438-3442

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.16965/ijpr.2020.126

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INTERSECTION: THE REVELATION OF COVID – 19 PANDEMIC

R. Vinodh Rajkumar.

Physiotherapist & Anthropologist, Director – Prabhanjeet Fitness Research Institute OPC Private Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. E-Mail: dreamofkalam@rediffmail.com

Summery

Human existence and their health rely on their intellectual interactions with ecosystem which eventually accompanies brilliant technological innovations. At par with the technological progress, humans also have been facing several intimidating communicable and non-communicable diseases. Amidst such disease threats, humans have discovered multiple ways to uplift the average life span all over the globe but still not up to the fitness benchmarks of healthy ageing trajectory. COVID-19 has specifically revealed the fragility of humans as they continue succumbing exponentially to the interactions of this communicable disease with their existing non-communicable diseases like hypertension, cardiac pathology and diabetes. In human evolution, the COVID-19 pandemic could be the most perfect synapse or intersection of non-communicable diseases with this transmissible disease leading to a situation that can be even named as “Global Medical Stampede” characterized by sudden increase in the number of patients requiring life-saving procedures for which there is lack of adequate manpower and technological support in health care system. This whole chaotic scenario could easily trigger acute psychological and physiological stress primarily caused by fear among the public favoring the frightening consequences of the pandemic. This article aims to suggest refinement in public health paradigms to enable preparations to face such disease threats from the immediate future without further procrastination.

Key words: COVID-19, Pandemic, Epidemiological Transition, Public Health, Compression of Morbidity, Polypharmacy, Pharmacogenomics, Co-morbidities, Somatotype, Healthy ageing.

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Cite this article: R. Vinodh Rajkumar. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INTERSECTION: THE REVELATION OF COVID – 19 PANDEMIC. Int J Physiother Res 2020;8(2):3438-3442. DOI: 10.16965/ijpr.2020.126