Covid-19: Emerging Considerations for Body Sourcing and Handling. A Perspective View from Nigeria

The current Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has spread to about 220 countries of the world and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Infections are still on the rise, and the impact on the global death rate could be devastating. There are fears over the likely impact of a large number of deaths on body sourcing and handling of cadavers for teaching and research. Historically, epidemics come with several challenges and have often led to some level of negligence of ethical practices and health and safety regulations associated with body sourcing and handling. The authors highlighted some emerging problems in this article, focusing on Africa and Nigeria in particular. These problems include a higher risk of coronavirus exposure for body handlers, shortage of cadavers for teaching and learning, a lack of standard regulations leading to unethical body sourcing and handling, and a lack of monitoring and collaboration needed for a well-coordinated Covid-19 pandemic response strategy. If these issues are ignored, the previous gains made in anatomical ethical practices may be destroyed. Some useful recommendations for policymaking geared toward prevention or curtailing these emerging issues have been instilled in this article.     

The Unintentional Effects on Body Donation Programs of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education

As medical programs place increasing importance on competency-based training and surgical simulations for residents, anatomy laboratories, and body donation programs find themselves in a position of adapting to changing demands. To better assess the demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens and evaluate the possible impacts that competency-based medical education could have upon the body donation program of McGill University, Canada, the authors tracked, over the course of the last 10 years, the number of soft-embalmed specimens, along with the number of teaching sessions and the residents enrolled in competency-based programs that are using cadaveric material. The results reveal that the number of soft-embalmed specimens used within residency training increased from 5 in 2009 to 35 in 2019, representing an increase from 6% of bodies to 36.5% of the total number of body donors embalmed in this institution. Correspondingly, the number of annual teaching sessions for residents increased from 19 in 2012 to 116 in 2019. These increases in teaching are correlated with increasing number of residents enrolled in competency-based programs over the last 3 years (Pearson r ranging from 0.9705 to 0.9903, and R² ranging from 0.9418 to 0.9808). Those results suggest that the new skill-centered curricula which require residents to perform specific tasks within realistic settings, exhibit a growing demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens. Institutions’ body donation programs must, therefore, adapt to those greater need for cadaveric specimens, which presents many challenges, ranging from the logistical to the ethical.     

A Bioethos for Bodies: Respecting a Priceless Resource

The value that willed body donors provide to medical education is priceless. Their precious gift helps to teach anatomy, spatial relationships between morphological structures, anatomical variation, and professionalism to medical students in a way that plastic models, podcasts, and lectures cannot. They are also an important resource for medical research and a wide variety of postgraduate training opportunities. While many body donation programs throughout the world are nonprofit organizations, there are body donation companies in the United States that sell donors for-profit. These “body brokers” have accumulated large profits from this business. It is incongruous that others would profit from such a priceless, freely donated gift. To prevent this incongruity, it is proposed that the international anatomical community develop a normative culture (a bioethos) for body donation programs. This would involve the conscious and systematic development of ethical principles for the day-to-day policies and practices of institutions that collect and use human bodies. With the development of this bioethos, a cultural shift in how donors are treated would occur and, over time, this would become the normal practice. These principles would become fundamental and foundational for the procurement and use of priceless human tissues.     

公共室外健身器材的安全性分析与研究

近年来,随着我国全民健身计划的推行,很多公共场所安装了各式各样的室外健身器材,丰富了人们的体育健身活动,增强了肌肉力量和身体的柔韧性,提高了人们的身体素质。然而,在室外健身器材的使用过程中,人们受伤的案例很多。其质量状况也引起了人们的担忧。本文分析了公共室外健身器材的质量现状,并提供了相关的解决对策。     

习近平新时代体育强国思想的马克思唯物主义立场及价值引领

运用文献资料法、辩证分析法、逻辑推理法等研究方法，对习近平新时代体育强国思想的马克思唯物主义立场进行了演绎与阐释。研究认为：在马克思唯物主义立场层面，习近平新时代体育强国思想坚持体育强国梦与实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦一脉相承的历史唯物主义立场和普遍联系的辩证唯物主义立场；坚持在体育强国建设进程中遵循问题导向的唯物主义本体论立场；坚持体育强国建设要利用好国际与国内两种资源的唯物主义内外因辩证关系的立场。在新的历史时期，习近平新时代体育强国思想引领着竞技体育、群众体育、体育产业等领域的发展理念和价值，创新与发展了马克思主义哲学的实践结构和理论视角，为开创新时代中国特色社会主义体育事业的新局面提供了坚实的理论基础和实践支持。     

"以人为本"的大众健美操创编

“以人为本”的大众健美操成套动作的创编不仅要有一定的运动负荷，起到强身健体、减脂和塑造形体的作用，而且要因人而异能够调动人们的积极性，调节人们的情绪，使人们自觉、主动地参加健美操的锻炼。根据创编对象的需要及所要达到的目的不同，动作内容的选择上也应不同。动作组合、结构框架、音乐配备、编排顺序之间要合理，具有新颖、独特的风格与特点，能给人一种美的享受。     

女子大众艺术健身操锻炼效果的实验研究

以 6 0名 18岁以上女子为研究对象 ,采用自编的四套大众艺术健身操 ,每周进行三次练习 ,每次 6 0分钟。持续练习 8周。结果表明 :大众艺术健身操练习可以减小女子身体各部位的围度 ,具有改善女子的形体特征的作用。不仅有非常明显的减肥作用 ,而且具有增加瘦体重从而改变身体成分 ,达到增强体质的作用。对于体重超重和肥胖者 ,减肥和降体重 ,改善身体成分的作用更为显著。大众艺术健身操对提高女子呼吸系统、循环系统机能水平也有一定的作用。对提高女子的力量、灵敏性、平衡能力及反应速度等身体素质有显著的作用。     

台阶试验质疑

台阶试验是一项由BROHA建立的用以评价机体对强体力负荷的适应能力和身体机能的恢复能力的运动负荷试验,研究表明:台阶试验指数与运动耐力和最大耗氧量之间无高度相关,因此,不能对心血管系统功能作出准确评价;台阶试验指数只能够对受试者的状况作出好与不好的评价,而不能作出精确评价;台阶试验指数不能有效反映以最大耗氧量、最大心输出量为代表的心脏功能增龄性变化规律及其性别差异。鉴于以上原因,台阶试验作为心血管系统功能评价的运动负荷试验尚待进一步研究。     

湖北土家族3～6岁幼儿体质研究

为了了解湖北土家族城乡 3～ 6岁幼儿的体质现状 ,通过对土家族儿童进行身体形态和机能指标的测试 ,结果表明 ,与全国平均值比较 ,湖北土家族儿童的形态指标较差 ,机能指标有优有劣。     

我国社区体育的发展现状及对策

采用文献资料法、访问座谈、比较研究等方法 ,对我国社区体育现状进行分析。结果显示 ,我国社区体育发展较落后 ,分布很不平衡。并对分析结果进行论述 ,提出有利社区体育发展的对策。