The COVID‑19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to our daily life. It has impacted the whole world and has forced governments to take extreme measures, ravel restrictions were imposed from late February on ...

Since the introduction of the concept of ‘regulatory capture’ by George Stigler in 1971, there has been ample evidence, published globally, on how world class companies and powerful industries influence, and otherwise ...

This paper explores the practical difficulties of conducting an online quantitative survey across the Maldives during the COVID‑19 pandemic response to study people’s values in the midst of a crisis, and addresses crisis ...

In the global crisis of COVID-19 pandemic and the unparalleled health emergency, nurses are the largest healthcare professional group providing frontline care in hospitals as well as other areas such as quarantine and ...

Introduction: The outbreak of COVID‑19 has led to the closure of medical schools all over the world. Maldives National University (MNU), School of Medicine adopted Electronic learning (e-learning) to prevent educational ...

With the continuously expanding pandemic of COVID‑19 and the need for attending non-COVID patients in a lockdown state, most healthcare institutions in the Greater Male’ area chose telemedicine as a route to consult patients. ...

Emerging and reemerging pathogens are global challenges for public health. The infectious disease COVID‑19 caused by SARS- CoV-2, a newly emerged beta coronavirus is spreading throughout the globe. There is currently no ...

In the past four decades, research using qualitative methods is increasingly being used to create images of reality. The methods present a challenge because the process of collection and organization of these images are ...