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This World Health Organization publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient safety. It highlights the safety gaps exposed across health systems globally and discusses both the negative impacts, such as disruptions in healthcare services and increased risks of harm, and positive developments during the pandemic. The work emphasizes the link between patient safety and health equity, and how long-standing structural inequities were highlighted by the pandemic. Intended for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers, it aims to inform strategies to improve patient safety and health system resilience.

Post COVID-19 condition (Disease) --- Health services administration.

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Although global economic activity is recovering and output in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) is expected to grow in 2021, containing COVID-19 remains a challenge in the region. Enterprise survey data for the emerging and developing countries in the region show that COVID-19 had a profound and heterogeneous impact on firms. Smaller, younger, and female-run businesses were hit harder and had greater difficulty recovering. But the crisis also played a cleansing role and economic activity in ECA appears to have been reallocated toward more productive firms during the crisis, particularly in countries with more competitive markets. Firms with high pre-crisis labor productivity experienced significantly smaller drops in sales and employment than firms with low pre-crisis labor productivity and were also more likely to adapt to the crisis by increasing online activity and remote work. Many governments in ECA implemented broad policy support schemes to address the initial economic fallout from the crisis. Overall, this government support was more likely to go to less productive and larger firms, regardless of the level of their pre-crisis innovation. As economies enter the economic recovery phase, it will be important for policy makers in all countries to phase out broad policy support measures as soon as appropriate and focus on fostering a competitive business environment, which is key to a strong recovery, resilience to future crises, and sustainable, long-term economic growth.

Competition --- Coronavirus --- COVID-19 --- Creative Destruction --- Economic Forecast --- Economic Impact --- Firm --- Government Support --- Post COVID-19 --- Productivity

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The internal audit function is a part of the architecture of our society and one of the key professions within companies. Consequently, the megatrends impacting society have also affected their work and the development and renewal of many of their practices.

This research has focused especially on the obstacles and opportunities that internal auditors have encountered during the post-COVID period.

This work has added real value to the literature by presenting the most up-to-date list of obstacles and opportunities regarding the latest practices in internal auditing, including ADA, remote working, artificial intelligence, agile auditing, and ESG auditing.

Besides, this study strongly urges internal auditors to build on the momentum of sustainable innovation and uphold a clear forward-looking outlook.

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Internal audit --- Obstacles --- Opportunities --- Post Covid --- ADA --- Remote working --- Artificial intelligence --- Agile audit --- ESG auditing --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit

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The world is changing rapidly in the age beyond Coronavirus. The current period of deprivation and anxiety, together with the coming global economic crisis, will usher in new consumer attitudes and behaviors that will change the nature of today’s capitalism. There are signs today of a growing anti-consuming movement with five types of anti-consumerists: life simplifiers, degrowth activists, climate activists, food choosers, and conservation activists. Citizens will reexamine what they eat, how much they eat, and how all this is influenced by class issues and inequality. Consequently, the food supply chain network will have to change dramatically, adjusting to the new attitudes, perceptions and preferences of the consumers of a post-COVID-19 era. Innovation will play a vital role in modernizing the food supply chain to meet the new challenges of the upcoming global economy. The process “from farm to fork” as the holistic approach to the production and consumption of food will become a key factor for the sustainability and the progress of the food industry. This Special Issue is focused on 11 selected topics from different parts of the agrifood supply chain in view of the post-COVID-19 era expanding from innovative scientific insights and technological advances of natural resources, organic pollutants identification, new food product development, traceability, and packaging, chain management, to consumer’s attitudes, and eating motivations, aiming to tackle the foreseen changes of global economy.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Food & society --- food packaging --- plastic --- recycling --- knowledge --- impact --- questionnaire survey --- traditional foods --- consumer trust --- confidence and satisfaction --- post COVID-19 period --- postprandial bioactivity --- bioactive compounds --- metabolic biomarkers --- functional cookies --- olive paste --- edible insects --- sustainability --- information --- traceability --- package information --- product information --- quality information --- process information --- personal information --- post-COVID-19 era --- agri-food supply chain --- environment --- NbSs --- eco-innovation --- constructed wetlands --- post-COVID-19 --- edible films --- whey protein isolate --- essential oils --- rosemary --- ginger --- lamb minced meat --- mechanical properties --- microbiology --- passive sampling --- marine aquaculture --- organic pollutants --- solid-phase extraction --- omega-3 fatty acids --- bakery snacks --- sensory evaluation --- in vitro nutritional functionality --- antithrombotic --- anti-inflammatory --- pork meat --- market research --- open innovation --- sustainable supply chain management --- measurement instrument --- critical factors --- practices --- performance --- Greece --- food packaging --- plastic --- recycling --- knowledge --- impact --- questionnaire survey --- traditional foods --- consumer trust --- confidence and satisfaction --- post COVID-19 period --- postprandial bioactivity --- bioactive compounds --- metabolic biomarkers --- functional cookies --- olive paste --- edible insects --- sustainability --- information --- traceability --- package information --- product information --- quality information --- process information --- personal information --- post-COVID-19 era --- agri-food supply chain --- environment --- NbSs --- eco-innovation --- constructed wetlands --- post-COVID-19 --- edible films --- whey protein isolate --- essential oils --- rosemary --- ginger --- lamb minced meat --- mechanical properties --- microbiology --- passive sampling --- marine aquaculture --- organic pollutants --- solid-phase extraction --- omega-3 fatty acids --- bakery snacks --- sensory evaluation --- in vitro nutritional functionality --- antithrombotic --- anti-inflammatory --- pork meat --- market research --- open innovation --- sustainable supply chain management --- measurement instrument --- critical factors --- practices --- performance --- Greece

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The world is changing rapidly in the age beyond Coronavirus. The current period of deprivation and anxiety, together with the coming global economic crisis, will usher in new consumer attitudes and behaviors that will change the nature of today’s capitalism. There are signs today of a growing anti-consuming movement with five types of anti-consumerists: life simplifiers, degrowth activists, climate activists, food choosers, and conservation activists. Citizens will reexamine what they eat, how much they eat, and how all this is influenced by class issues and inequality. Consequently, the food supply chain network will have to change dramatically, adjusting to the new attitudes, perceptions and preferences of the consumers of a post-COVID-19 era. Innovation will play a vital role in modernizing the food supply chain to meet the new challenges of the upcoming global economy. The process “from farm to fork” as the holistic approach to the production and consumption of food will become a key factor for the sustainability and the progress of the food industry. This Special Issue is focused on 11 selected topics from different parts of the agrifood supply chain in view of the post-COVID-19 era expanding from innovative scientific insights and technological advances of natural resources, organic pollutants identification, new food product development, traceability, and packaging, chain management, to consumer’s attitudes, and eating motivations, aiming to tackle the foreseen changes of global economy.

food packaging --- plastic --- recycling --- knowledge --- impact --- questionnaire survey --- traditional foods --- consumer trust --- confidence and satisfaction --- post COVID-19 period --- postprandial bioactivity --- bioactive compounds --- metabolic biomarkers --- functional cookies --- olive paste --- edible insects --- sustainability --- information --- traceability --- package information --- product information --- quality information --- process information --- personal information --- post-COVID-19 era --- agri-food supply chain --- environment --- NbSs --- eco-innovation --- constructed wetlands --- post-COVID-19 --- edible films --- whey protein isolate --- essential oils --- rosemary --- ginger --- lamb minced meat --- mechanical properties --- microbiology --- passive sampling --- marine aquaculture --- organic pollutants --- solid-phase extraction --- omega-3 fatty acids --- bakery snacks --- sensory evaluation --- in vitro nutritional functionality --- antithrombotic --- anti-inflammatory --- pork meat --- market research --- open innovation --- sustainable supply chain management --- measurement instrument --- critical factors --- practices --- performance --- Greece --- n/a