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COVID-19 Pandemic and Health and Social Inequalities Worldwide: Impact and Response Measures in Greece
CONCLUSIONS: The pandemic has exacerbated long-standing health and socioeconomic inequalities, stressing to governments the need to adopt political strategies that will help address them. Measures have been taken in Greece for labor protection, and unemployment benefits, such as the two-month extension of the subsidy period for the unemployed and the long-term unemployed. Minimum insurance days have also been reduced so that citizens employed in tourism, catering, and other seasonal occupations can receive unemployment benefits.PMID:37581813 | DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-31986-0_38
Source: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology - August 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Maria Malliarou Athanasia Gagamanou Axilleas Bouletis Vasileios Tzenetidis Iokasti Papathanasiou Maria Theodoropoulou Theodora-Paisia Apostolidi Vaios Grammatis Anna Patsopoulou Pavlos Sarafis Source Type: research

Reasons for not working during the coronavirus pandemic among working-age persons with and without disabilities in the U.S
CONCLUSION: Analyzing reasons why people with disabilities were not working during the pandemic is crucial for successful employment policymaking in a post-pandemic world.PMID:37402418 | DOI:10.1016/j.apmr.2023.06.013
Source: Health Physics - July 4, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: Shreya Paul Debra L Brucker Source Type: research

The Right Policies Can Protect the Workers of Asia and the Pacific
By Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaBANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 5 2022 (IPS) Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and ensure that the rights and aspirations of these workers and their families are upheld and that they remain the engine of economic growth for the region. Armida Salsiah AlisjahbanaA new report released today, the Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific: The Workforce We Need, offers tangible solutions to immediately address alarming...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Economy & Trade Headlines Health Inequality Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Opportunities to Improve Long COVID Care: Implications from Semi-structured Interviews with Black Patients
ConclusionsThere are possible targets for improving long COVID care, from COVID testing through to long-term treatment plans. There is a need to increase long COVID awareness among physicians. Diagnosis and a standardized treatment plan could help patients avoid unnecessary healthcare utilization and obtain comprehensive support.
Source: The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research - July 30, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Psychosocial and vocational impacts of COVID-19 on people with and without disabilities.
Conclusion/Implications: Findings highlight the employment and psychosocial impacts of a global pandemic and provide implications for moving forward in regards to vocational and psychosocial intervention services and supports that will be needed, especially for those with CID. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research

As COVID-Era Restrictions End, Disabled Americans Want to Avoid a ‘Return to Normal’
President Joe Biden hired Kim Knackstedt in early 2021 to make sure that Americans with disabilities were not forgotten as the country returned to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic. A year later, that seems to be precisely what has happened—and it’s unfortunate, Knackstedt says. “What was considered ‘normal’ was actually not a great way to live, often,” says Knackstedt, who served as the first White House director of disability policy, before leaving the administration on March 11. “It wasn’t accessible. It actually didn’t provide all of the things that we needed to ge...
Source: TIME: Health - April 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Vulnerabilities in workplace features for essential workers with breast cancer: Implications for the COVID-19 pandemic
CONCLUSIONS: We identified vulnerabilities in workplace protections, particularly among essential workers not in unions. Minority women more often had negative perceptions of their work environment, possibly reflecting employer bias.PMID:35253716 | DOI:10.3233/WOR-211095
Source: Work - March 7, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Madelyn Klugman Sujata Patil Francesca Gany Victoria Blinder Source Type: research

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