scholarly journals COVID-19 and Domestic Violence: A Possible Public Health Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anant Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Social Support System

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown to mitigate the spread of the pandemic has led to social isolation, reduced social support system and increased cases of domestic violence against women. The United Nations and other international and national agencies speculate further increase in it and have suggested governments to take appropriate action to safeguard the health and human rights of women. Many governments have also taken steps and working towards it by starting helpline and counselling services. This article reviews the concerns raised by these agencies, interventions introduced and its future implications. It also argues that apart from reported cases of domestic violence and its negative consequences on individuals and families, it would be interesting to study the positive impact of living together as this pandemic is different from other emergencies. The sociologist Marianne Hester argued that ‘domestic violence goes up whenever families spend more time together’. It would be interesting to study and examine it in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. This article also suggests the need for further research to understand the reason and dynamics of such violence considering men and women both are engaged in such violence against each other and bear its consequences together.

Factors of Domestic Violence Against Women: Correlation of Women’s Rights and Vulnerability

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-296
Author(s):  
Bonkoungou Zakaliyat ◽  
A Sathiya Susuman
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
Domestic Violence Against Women

Many studies have looked into domestic violence but very few have considered women’s knowledge and perception about their rights. This study aims to examine the main sociocultural factors behind domestic violence against women with an emphasis on the power of the knowledge and perception of the women about their international and constitutional rights. Quantitative data collected in 2015 in the regions of East and Southwest Burkina Faso is used in this paper. Multivariate logistic regression is implemented to take into consideration the net effects of each factor when controlling the effects of other covariates. Results of this paper can be used to implement actions against domestic violence in the zone of intervention of the Program of Sexual Health and Human Rights project.

scholarly journals Save for Safe: Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumers' Saving and Spending Behavior in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaotong Jin ◽  
Yurou Zhao ◽  
Wei Song ◽  
Taiyang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Spending Behavior ◽  
Moderating Role

In public health emergencies, people are more willing to save money rather than spending it, which is not conductive to economic development and recovery. Due to the absence of relevant research, the internal logic of this phenomenon is not clear. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study systematically explored whether and why public health emergencies stimulate consumers' preference for saving (vs. spending). We conducted two online surveys and used methods including stepwise regression analysis and bootstrapping to test the hypotheses. The first survey, with 1,511 participants from China in February 2020, indicates that the severity of emergencies has a significant positive impact on the populations' willingness to save (vs. spend). Risk perception plays a mediating role between the severity of emergencies and consumers' saving (vs. spending) willingness. Materialism plays a moderating role between risk perception and an individual's saving (vs. spending) willingness, individuals who are more materialistic have a lower saving (vs. spending) willingness when they perceive the risks of the pandemic. To verify the duration of the above effects, we conducted a follow-up survey consisted of 466 instances in August 2020. It is noteworthy that the above effects are not significant during the post-pandemic period. Thus, spending behavior in public health emergencies can be motived by reducing risk perception and increasing materialism. These findings can provide a valuable inspiration for public health, crisis management, and economic recovery during public health emergencies.

scholarly journals Graph-based open-ended survey on concerns related to COVID-19

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256212
Author(s):  
Tatsuro Kawamoto ◽  
Takaaki Aoki ◽  
Michiko Ueda
Keyword(s):  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Infection Risk ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Characteristic Evolution

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis with broad social and economic consequences. We conducted four surveys between April and August 2020 using the graph-based open-ended survey (GOS) framework, and investigated the most pressing concerns and issues for the general public in Japan. The GOS framework is a hybrid of the two traditional survey frameworks that allows respondents to post their opinions in a free-format style, which can subsequently serve as one of the choice items for other respondents, just as in a multiple-choice survey. As a result, this framework generates an opinion graph that relates opinions and respondents. We can also construct annotated opinion graphs to achieve a higher resolution. By clustering the annotated opinion graphs, we revealed the characteristic evolution of the response patterns as well as the interconnectedness and multi-faceted nature of opinions. Substantively, our notable finding is that “social pressure,” not “infection risk,” was one of the major concerns of our respondents. Social pressure refers to criticism and discrimination that they anticipate receiving from others should they contract COVID-19. It is possible that the collectivist nature of Japanese culture coupled with the government’s policy of relying on personal responsibility to combat COVID-19 explains some of the above findings, as the latter has led to the emergence of vigilantes. The presence of mutual surveillance can contribute to growing skepticism toward others as well as fear of ostracism, which may have negative consequences at both the societal and individual levels.

scholarly journals Mental health solutions for domestic violence victims amid COVID-19: a review of the literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaohui Su ◽  
Dean McDonnell ◽  
Stephanie Roth ◽  
Quanlei Li ◽  
Sabina Šegalo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Domestic Violence Victims ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Mental Health Challenges

Abstract Background Due to COVID-19, domestic violence victims face a range of mental health challenges, possibly resulting in substantial human and economic consequences. However, there is a lack of mental health interventions tailored to domestic violence victims and in the context of COVID-19. In this study, we aim to identify interventions that can improve domestic violence victims’ mental health amid the COVID-19 pandemic to address the research gap. Main text Drawing insights from established COVID-19 review frameworks and a comprehensive review of PubMed literature, we obtained information on interventions that can address domestic violence victims’ mental health challenges amid COVID-19. We identified practical and timely solutions that can be utilized to address mental health challenges domestic violence victims face amid COVID-19, mainly focusing on (1) decreasing victims’ exposure to the abuser and (2) increasing victims’ access to mental health services. Conclusion Domestic violence is a public health crisis that affects all demographics and could result in significant morbidity and mortality. In addition to emphasizing mental health challenges faced by domestic violence victims, multidisciplinary interventions are identified that could provide timely and practical solutions to domestic violence victims amid the pandemic, which range from tailored shelter home strategies, education programs, escape plans, laws and regulations, as well as more technology-based mental health solutions. There is a significant need for more multipronged and multidisciplinary strategies to address domestic violence amid and beyond the pandemic, particularly interventions that could capitalize on the ubiquity and cost-effectiveness of technology-based solutions.

scholarly journals Resilience Modeling Method of Airport Network Affected by Global Public Health Events

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jiuxia Guo ◽  
Xinping Zhu ◽  
Chenxi Liu ◽  
ShuzhiSam Ge
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Health Event ◽  
And Control

The COVID-19 global pandemic hit the aviation industry hard since the end of 2019. It has had an immediate, dramatic impact on airport traffic and revenue. Airports are the important nodes in the aviation system network, and the failure of a single airport can often affect the surrounding airports. The purpose of our analysis is to show how is the resilience and recovery of airports in the global public health crisis. Much research on resilience can be found in air transportation networks facing natural hazards or extreme weather, which focus on the robustness of the airport network. These methods are not suitable for the global public health event. Therefore, based on the collection of existing data, we combined with existing resilience measurement methods to analyze the resilience and recovery of airports during the global public health crisis. The resilience metrics results reflect the recovery of airports very well under different strategies. Here, we analyze airport network resilience by considering the performance-based methods. We integrate some metrics such as aircraft movements, passenger throughput, and freight throughput in the resilience metrics model, comparing the resilience evaluation under different preventive and control strategies, which can reflect the airport’s recovery speed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis indicates that the aviation system network deteriorates soon after the COVID-19 outbreak, but the recovery level of the aviation industry depends on what measures are taken to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic. In particular, the recovery of the aviation system network in Europe takes longer than in China, due to different prevention and control strategies for COVID-19. The study proves that the emergency response ability of the country for the public health crisis has a significant positive impact on speeding up the recovery of the aviation system.

scholarly journals Measuring impact of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama for management of child obesity in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Gorav Kumar ◽  
Guneet Monga ◽  
Nilesh Gothi
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Child Obesity ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Background: Obesity is fast becoming the developed world's greatest health problem. Moreover, childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased over few years. It is caused by imbalance between calorie intake and calories utilized.Methods: The current paper analyses the impact of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama on management of child obesity. For this purpose, a group of 120 respondents were selected for a 4-month program to measure that whether the program can improve their living standards or not.Results: The result revealed positive impact on the obesity of the participants, further the variables of their medical condition and living standards improvement is identified.Conclusions: One variable Rate_yoga_1 is predicting the Overall_quality of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama. Further, four variables medi_conImp_3, medi_conImp_2, medi_conImp_5 and medi_conImp_4 are predicting the medical condition improvement under session of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama, and two variables Livi_stanimpr_4 and Livi_stanimpr_3 are predicting the living standard improvement under session of Surya Namaskar and Pranayama.

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