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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemi are disrupting the food security directly such as food system, and indirectly such as household income, food access and health. Examining changes in food and non-food expenditure both before and during the covid-19 epidemic is the goal of this study. In South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, a descriptive study of both urban and rural areas was employed as the research design. This research uses a cross sectional study research design, the type of data used is secondary data using the 2019-2021 National Socio-Economic Survey data. The results showed that during the pandemic, food expenditure increased, whereas prepared foods, beverages, and cigarette consumption decreased. Different items and services, footwear and hats, as well as party/festival ceremonies, also saw a decrease in non-food expenditure. With a food share of 67,7% in 2020 and 64,3% in 2021, it indicates the presence of food insecurity based on income class (quintiles 1 and 2). In both urban and rural areas, the economic wellbeing level has decreased as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. The conclusion are in South Sulawesi Province the comparison before and during the covid-19 pandemic, food expenditure has increased, non-food expenditure has decreased in 2020 and 2021. People with low incomes are indicated to be food insecure both in urban and rural areas during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only reshaped our world but also redesigned our everyday lives. Since the pandemic broke out, there has been an audacious mushrooming of both disinformation and misinformation. While a layman might confuse disinformation and misinformation to mean the same, an informed eye can analyse that such is not the case. The former implies information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organization, or country, the latter stands for false information not created with the intention of causing harm to anyone. Both forms of information, however, share a common and popular medium of dissemination, which is social media. In both cases, various popular social media platforms have been found aiding and abetting ignorant, irresponsible citizens spreading unverified news, and false information. In the absence of lack of regulation and restrictions, the two have snowballed into an Infodemic of never seen before proportions. This Infodemic has today engulfed the pandemic, proving to be a more lethal and long-term threat. The paper argues that the social media have driven, and fuelled, COVID-19 Infodemic we suffer today, has its genesis much before the breakout of the actual pandemic, and if left incontinent, shall outlast it as well. For ease of understanding the paper is divided into three main sections. The paper begins with a theoretical part in which the term 'Infodemic' is explained, and its genesis is traced back. This section explores the role that social media plays in spreading misinformation and disinformation. The second section analyses how countries like India are combating the Infodemic by enacting special provisions in their existing laws. The concluding part of the paper is advisory in nature. The research contends that the ongoing Infodemic is the result of a larger malaise affecting society, which is ignorance and irresponsibility. This moral and ethical malaise cannot be checked by laws alone, but by a larger, nationwide media literacy campaign. The only solution available to us is to cultivate mass media literacy, both for social media platforms and citizens who use them regularly, so that everyone involved in creating, consuming, and sharing information is held accountable.

Background: COVID-19 is a respiratory infection that has claimed the lives of many people. It caused many changes in society; it impacted physically, emotionally, and most of all socially. The impact can be light or severe, depending on the severity of the diseases and the individual ability to cope with the disease. Although many died from this disease, many also survived. Purpose: This study aims to explore the experiences of COVID-19 survivors. The results of this study can be used as actual information to all levels of society in understanding the COVID-19 phenomenon. Methods: This study is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. The population is COVID-19 survivors with 14 participants that have been selected by snowballing technique. Result: Survivors of COVID-19 experience physiological, psychological, social and spiritual impacts. The treatment received by the survivors is based on the symptoms experienced and fluid therapy to maintain fluid balance for patients who do not have a good appetite, and as a course of injection drugs. Survivors received support and comfort from doctors, nurses, family, friends, co-workers, superiors, and even from students. It was also found that the survivors admitted that suffering from COVID-19 they experienced a closer relationship with their family, more care and attention. It was also found that there was a last request if the survivor died. Survivors express the meaning of life felt by survivors of COVID-19 as a bitter experience, and a second chance that must be used to as full an extent as possible. There were also recommendations from the survivors. Conclusion: There were 19 categories e found and put into six themes, namely the impact of exposure to COVID-19, treatment and remedies, support and comfort, interpersonal relationships, will and the essence of life

This study aimed to develop the web-based e-learning model for the Arabic language material in the Islamic Middle School 25 Jakarta. This research used the R&D method in the term of the Dick and Carrie model. The result of this study is reflected from the materials expert's approval of the e-learning model for the Arabic course based on the web is 80%. This result indicates a very good evaluation of the test on the students. The result of the media expert's approval of the e-learning model for the Arabic language course based on the web is 95%. This result indicates a very good evaluation of the test on the student. E-learning is considered a new method of learning that focuses strongly on information centers and has become an important part of the field of academic universities added to the situation of our country that is currently exposed to the COVID-19 viruses, the role of Internet-based learning as support for the learning process becomes very important.

Academic burnout among FKIP UHAMKA students will be analyzed based on gender. A descriptive approach is utilized in the quantitative research methodology. A sample of 307 students was chosen from the 6,544 total pupils who participated in the research. According to the study's findings, academic burnout can be classified according to a person's gender. The researchers discovered that male students fell into the low category, scoring 75% in sub-variable exhaustions, 61% in cynicism, and 50% in inefficacy. Additionally, the majority of female students fall into the low category, with percentage values in the subvariables for weariness (76%), cynicism (63%), and inefficacy (64%) all falling into the low range. Thus, it can be said that both male and female students at FKIP UHAMKA have low levels of academic burnout.

For global health, the COVID-19 situation presents unique difficulties and possibilities. The most disappointing aspect of the problem is that we do not have a global health apparatus to guarantee our people's safety. The global health system, predicated on the concept of human security, has, to a certain extent, failed to ensure the security of people's lives. When it comes to the threat that COVID-19 poses, there is a form of balance on a worldwide basis between under-developed and developed governments about the fact that no one is secure. The Covid-19 pandemic has completely transformed the concept of human security. The term "global health" refers to more than only the safety of one's health. This research helps to reveal the conceptual and analytical ambiguity of the human security paradigm, focusing on enhancing human security by using the biosecurity paradigm as a policy cover. Further, this research paves the way to understand the concept of human security with new dimensions.

An investigation was made to evaluate the environmental ergonomics factors that had an effect on the operative yielding of workers of manufacturing areas of the electronics industry in two cities in the Baja California State of the Mexican Republic, such as the cities of Mexicali and Tijuana, located in the northwest of Mexico. These two cities represented in this scientific study two type of regions: arid in Mexicali and marine in Tijuana, and with this was made a comparative analysis, including the principal factors of the environmental ergonomics such as climate parameters (relative humidity and temperature), noise and vibrations of industrial machinery, level of luminosity in indoors of the ten industrial plants of the industrial electronics, which were evaluated .Also was analyzed presence of bad odors and inorganic air pollutants (derived from sulfur, nitrogen and carbon) and organic pollutants as microorganisms, provided from the enormous vehicular traffic and large number of industries in both cities. The presence of air pollutants mentioned above, caused the generation of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) in workers of the manufacturing areas and with this the productivity and quality levels decreased, due to the absence of experienced workers, and need use inexpert people that was making errors and with this, defective products manufactured. This investigation was made from 2018 to 2020, where in 2020 was made with a strict regulation by the presence of the Covid 19 pandemic.

This study explores the challenges facing a pilot project aiming to foster homeless cats in an Australian residential aged care facility. The global COVID-19 pandemic stalled the project but also presented an opportunity to gain reflective insights into the perceived barriers, enablers and tensions involved in seeking to implement pet animal inclusion in residential aged care. Perspectives from aged care management, animal welfare services and researchers/project managers were all sought using semi-structured interviews, and themes developed using a qualitative descriptive analysis. Perceived barriers to the project before and after the pandemic were not dissimilar with four key themes emerging: competing priorities, risk and safety, resources, and timing. All existed differently across stakeholder groups creating tensions to be negotiated. These themes are then mapped to the competencies established by the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) for undertaking health promotion, demonstrating that this skill base can be drawn on when seeking to implement human-animal inclusive projects. Creating supportive healthful environments for frail older persons is a moral imperative of extended lives. Health Promotion skills as outlined in the Ottawa Charter and IUHPE competencies for health promotion workers need to be extended to include animal services, agendas and cultures to promote multi-species health promotion into the future. Refereed/Peer-reviewed