Potential psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on children: A scoping review of pandemics & epidemics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn A Merrill ◽  
Trevyna William ◽  
Kayla M. Joyce ◽  
Leslie E Roos ◽  
Jennifer Protudjer
Keyword(s):  
Data Extraction ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychosocial Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
School Closures ◽  
International Fund ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

Context: Physical distancing and health measures, such as school closures and work-at-home mandates, implemented to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19, will likely have far-reaching impacts on children’s psychosocial health and well-being. Objective: We aimed to examine extant literature on pandemics to identify the expected impact of COVID-19 on children’s psychosocial health and secondary outcomes, including nutritional, financial and child safety outcomes. Data Sources: Articles were searched within the Medline, Global Health, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases on June 11th, 2020. Gray literature was also examined from the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Fund (UNICEF) until July 24th, 2020. Study Selection: A total of 8332 articles were screened for eligibility by two independent reviewers. Of these, 7,919 and 413 articles were from academic databases and additional sources, respectively. Data Extraction: Results on child outcomes were extracted and collated. Results: Seventy-three articles met inclusion criteria. Children have faced significant challenges with 12% of total articles indicating loneliness/depression, 21% anxiety, 7% grief, 10% stress-related disorders, 25% child abuse, 8% family conflict, and 12% stigma during pandemics/epidemics. Furthermore, 25% of articles indicated economic challenges, 23% negative academic impacts, 33% improper nutrition, and 21% reduced opportunities for play/increased screen time. These challenges were exacerbated among children who were female, having a disability, or being a migrant/displaced child. Conclusion: Pandemics and epidemics have had diverse and widespread negative consequences for children. Findings can inform the development and implementation of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic to protect child health and well-being.

scholarly journals COVID-19, mental health and psychological first aid

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Minihan ◽  
B. Gavin ◽  
B. D. Kelly ◽  
F. McNicholas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Aid ◽  
World Health ◽  
Psychological First Aid ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

Crises such as the global pandemic of COVID-19 (coronavirus) elicit a range of responses from individuals and societies adversely affecting physical and emotional well-being. This article provides an overview of factors elicited in response to COVID-19 and their impact on immunity, physical health, mental health and well-being. Certain groups, such as individuals with mental illness, are especially vulnerable, so it is important to maximise the supports available to this population and their families during the pandemic. More broadly, the World Health Organization recommends ‘Psychological First Aid’ as a useful technique that can help many people in a time of crisis.

COVID-19’s Direct and Indirect Impact

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Irma Ruslina Defi
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
World Health ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

The COVID-19 outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of worldwide concern by the World Health Organization. The direct and indirect effects of COVID-19 on health and well-being are still being investigated. In addition to the direct impacts of COVID-19 disease, social distancing and lockdown measures have had a significant and unequal effect on individuals, households, and communities through restrictions imposed on our daily social an d economic activities.

World Health Organization

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-136 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
New World ◽  
International Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
Social Council ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

Designed as a collective instrument to raise the standards of health and well-being of all peoples throughout the world, a new World Health Organization was launched, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, by the International Health Conference, which met at Hunter College, June 19 to July 22, 1946.

scholarly journals Salutogenesis in Health Promoting Settings: A Synthesis Across Organizations, Communities, and Environments

2022 ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
Georg F. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Restorative Environments ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Salutogenic Model ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractSettings are defined by the World Health Organization (1998) as “the place or social context in which people engage in daily activities in which environmental, organizational, and personal factors interact to affect health and well-being.” Such settings range from small-scale home/family to (international) organizations and large cities and thus differ in size, in their degree of formalized organization and their relationships to society.The chapters in Part V review how salutogenesis has been applied to health promotion research and practice in a broad range of settings: organizations in general, schools, higher education, workplace, military settings, neighborhood/communities, cities, and restorative environments. The following synthesis demonstrates that applying salutogenesis to various settings and linking salutogenesis with other models established in these settings has the great potential to generate ideas on how to advance the general salutogenic model.

scholarly journals Annual Report of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau 2020. Saving Lives and Improving Health and Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Financial Report ◽  
Pan American ◽  
External Auditor ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

To the Member States: In accordance with the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization, I have the honor to present the 2020 annual report on the work of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. This report highlights the technical cooperation undertaken by the Bureau during the period July 2019 through June 2020, within the framework of the 2014–2019 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization, defined by its Governing Bodies and amended by the Pan American Sanitary Conference in 2017, and the 2020–2025 Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization, defined and approved by the Governing Bodies. This report is complemented by the Financial Report of the Director and the Report of the External Auditor for the year 2019. Carissa F. Etienne - Director, Pan American Health Organization.

scholarly journals Monitoring the Safety of Herbal Medicines in Yemen: A Call for Action

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alshakka ◽  
Wafa F. S. Badulla ◽  
Sara Alshagga ◽  
Nasser A. Awadh ◽  
Nisha Jha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Control Production ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Health And Well Being

Consuming modern medicines with traditional herbs to treat and prevent diseases or even maintain health and well-being is common in different countries. Despite the high prevalence of this activity in Yemen, there is neither proper regulation that controls the production, standardization, quality control and use nor an appropriate system for herbal pharmacovigilance in Yemen. Yemenis prefer to use herbs before resorting to allopathic medicines, sometimes in concomitant or alternative to the allopathic medication. Most people believe that herbs are safe, though there are many side effects associated with herbal medicines. For the safe and effective use of traditional herbal medication, there should be a regulation from the official authorities that controls their preparation, selling, quality control, production, and monitoring of the side effects. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated a guideline for monitoring herbal safety within the current pharmacovigilance framework. However, monitoring and reporting the adverse effects of allopathic medicines in Yemen are limited, and the situation is more complicated and challenging for herbal medicines. The present article highlighted the challenges and provided recommendations for the application of effective herbal pharmacovigilance.

EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH DIABETES

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indre Cergelyte - Podgrusiene
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Peripheral Vascular ◽  
Severe Problem ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Health And Well Being

Diabetes is a very severe problem in medicine and for all people. It is a very heavy illness, which destroys normal human’s life from all sides, such as- emotional, lifestyle and social integration. It needs a lot of money to treat people who have that kind of illness. World Health Organization (WHO, 2015), said that Diabetes is a disorder of the world which is threatening peoples’ health and well-being. Diabetes is caused by not only the endocrine, construction and other body systems breach: patients develop diabetic retinopathy, diabetic neuropathy, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease (stroke, coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease), infertility problems and diabetic foot. Therefore, adolescent’s education is very important, if the right knowledge and skills are received then adolescents are able to prevent complications and adapt to a new life. In adolescence, environment is very important for education, because they can find information about diabetes from different sources. Educational environment helps for appropriate selflearning.

scholarly journals Psychological Intervention Measures for Mental Health During COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ancha Rani ◽  
Vandana Singh Malik ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Behamani
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Infectious Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Intervention Measures ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health problem affecting around 213 countries and territories worldwide, with more than 6,474,200 cases reported and 382,914 deaths documented so far. The World Health Organization announced COVID-19 is a pandemic outbreak on 11 March, 2020. We are facing a medical emergency because of COVID-19 pandemic. These large incidents have negative and detrimental effects on mental health and well-being of individuals worldwide. Widespread infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19 are linked to mental illness symptoms and psychological distress. Preliminary studies indicate that depression (28%) and anxiety (16%) symptoms and self-reported stress (8 %) are typical psychological responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, which could be correlated with sleep disturbance. The physical and psychological wellbeing of general people, particularly health care practitioners, has been profoundly affected by illness. The main objective of this review-based study is to focus mental health and psychological interventions which can be provided during this pandemic. Stress, fear, anxiety, panic, frustration is very common during COVID-19 pandemic and these can be reduced by some psychological intervention measures.

scholarly journals Assessment of mercury contamination in Brycon falcatus (Characiformes: Bryconidae) and human health risk by consumption of this fish from the Teles Pires River, Southern Amazonia

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliane S. de Matos ◽  
João Otávio S. Silva ◽  
Daniele Kasper ◽  
Lucélia N. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Human Health Risk ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mercury Contamination ◽  
World Health ◽  
Hepatosomatic Index ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Southern Amazonia ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health And Well Being

ABSTRACT Brycon falcatus is one of the most highly consumed species of fish within the region in the Teles Pires basin, and has great commercial importance in sport and professional artisanal fishing. The objective of this study was to analyze the presence and concentration of total mercury (THg) in the muscle, liver and gills of B. falcatus, and calculate the risk to human health of THg contamination from ingestion of the fish. THg concentrations were similar in the liver (0.076 mg kg-1) and muscle (0.052 mg kg-1), and higher than in the gills (0.009 mg kg-1). The levels of HgT present in B. falcatus tissues did not influence weight gain and nutritional status. Based on the condition factor, weight and length ratio and hepatosomatic index, it seems that the concentrations of THg did not influence the health and well-being of B. falcatus collected in the Teles Pires River basin. THg concentrations in the muscle of B. falcatus are below the limit recommended by the World Health Organization for people who consume until 250 g of fish per week. The risk of deleterious effects on human health may exist if there is a greater consumption of B. falcatus such as 340 g/day, that is the mean of fish consumption by indigenous and riverine.

scholarly journals The Role of Blue and Green Exercise in Planetary Health and Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10829
Author(s):  
Nuno Loureiro ◽  
Luís Calmeiro ◽  
Adilson Marques ◽  
Diego Gomez-Baya ◽  
Margarida Gaspar de Matos
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Green Exercise ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Natural Settings ◽  
Health And Well Being

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that health and well-being are essential to achieving the United Nations (UN) Development Agenda 2030, which includes the goal of empowering people to adopt active lifestyles while protecting the planet’s health. This article aims at exploring how exercise performed in different natural settings can contribute to improving health and to a more sustainable world. We define “exercise” as a form of physical activity undertaken to increase fitness, health, and well-being, and argue for the importance of “green” and “blue” exercise as forms of physical activity that are associated with the protection and sustainability of natural settings and the promotion of planetary health. Blue and green exercise should become a focus of public policies, especially when outdoor activities are being identified as fundamental for the promotion of mental, physical, social, and spiritual health. The current paper intends to raise the awareness of political decision-makers and professionals in education, environment, and heath sectors for the potential of green and blue exercise as specific exercise practices that are healthy, joyful, and environmentally friendly.

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