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Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Children in South Asia
Raghbendra Jha is Professor of Economics, and Executive Director Australian National University. By Raghbendra JhaCANBERRA, Australia, Jul 6 2020 (IPS) The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 set off a series of health and economic crises that feed upon each other. The health crisis exacerbates the economic crisis by disrupting supply chains, throwing large number of people (particularly those working in the informal sector) out of work and closing down large numbers of enterprises – particularly micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).
Raghbendra JhaThe economic crisis, in turn, exacerbates the health cr...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Raghbendra Jha Tags: Asia-Pacific Economy & Trade Featured Gender Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Labour TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
With Proper Investment in Youth, Kenya ’s Potential for Progress Is Unlimited
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ruth Kagia and Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Labour Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
The experiences of nursing students using virtual education during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study aimed to examine the views and experiences of nursing students regarding quality, quantity, e-learning challenges, and solutions. This is a qualitative study using a purposive sampling method in which 42 nursing students were included. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured face-to-face or telephone interviews and analyzed using content analysis. Concepts that were raised in the experience of nursing students were: "Incompatibility of educational processes", including ineffective teaching methods, limited interaction, limited feedback, low creativity, and educational injustice. "Loss of opportuniti...
Source: Journal of Medicine and Life - November 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Seyedeh Narjes Mousavizadeh Source Type: research
Food Insecurity Among College Students: An Analysis of US State Legislation Through 2020
Many US college students experience food insecurity (FI). Given most students are excluded from receiving federal nutrition assistance, additional efforts are needed to alleviate student FI. This perspective discusses proposed and enacted state statutes, resolutions, and bills addressing college FI to date, which range in depth, breadth, and success. Overall, states have demonstrated their promising role in addressing FI; however, college FI promises to be a continuing challenge, particularly given continued widespread unemployment that began with the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 and the global struggle for economic recovery.
Source: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior - December 22, 2020 Category: Nutrition Authors: Melissa N. Laska, Sheila Fleischhacker, Christina Petsoulis, Meg Bruening, Michael J. Stebleton Tags: Perspective Source Type: research
Long Covid Is Keeping Significant Numbers of People Out of Work, Study Finds
An analysis of workers ’ compensation claims in New York found that 71 percent of claimants with long Covid needed continuing medical treatment or were unable to work for six months or more.
Source: NYT Health - January 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Pam Belluck Tags: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Workers ' Compensation Insurance Long Covid Chronic Condition (Health) Labor and Jobs Research Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns Unemployment New York State New York State Insurance Fund Source Type: news
Development and initial validation of the job-search self-regulation scale: Expanding the career adaptation model of job search.
Given the pressing issues of unemployment during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the underrecognized role of job-search self-regulation (JSSR) in general within career construction theory (CCT), it is socially and theoretically important to expand the career adaption model of job search by examining the role of JSSR in predicting job-search outcomes. However, a psychometrically sound measure of JSSR is lacking. Study 1 used a sample of U.S. unemployed individuals (n = 300) to develop and explore the factor structure of a measure of JSSR. Study 2 tracked a sample of U.S. unemployed individuals (n = 399) to v...
Source: Journal of Counseling Psychology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Guardian view on climate and Covid: time to make different choices | Editorial
Despite some fine words about the environmental crisis, ministers are pushing ahead with a trade bill that threatens to damage the planetThe dust storms that devastated the US prairie during the Great Depression were the worst ecological disaster in American history. They were also, partly,manmade. Decades of farming in the Great Plains had rid the topsoil of its native grass, leaving nothing to prevent fields crumbling to dust when drought struck in 1931. Across the Dust Bowl in midwest America, millions of acres of farmland were swept away in brown blizzards. Forced off the land, hungry families headed west in search of ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 22, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Editorial Tags: Environment Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science World news Climate change US news Economics Politics Trade policy Brexit UK news Foreign policy Food safety Source Type: news
Arab Region Counts Cost of Devastating COVID-19 Pandemic
Delegates at the hybrid conference held virtually in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference discussed the impact of COVID-19 the regions’ ICPD25 commitments. Credit: APDABy Cecilia RussellJOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 29 2021 (IPS) More than eight million people moved onto the poverty line in the Arab region, a conference of Arab and Asian parliamentarians heard.
The hybrid conference, held simultaneously in Beirut, Lebanon, and via video conferencing to delegates in Asia and the Arab region, was a follow up on earlier discussions on the regions’ ICPD25 Commitments.
Dr Luay Shabaneh, Regional Director, UNFPA ASRO, said...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 29, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Cecilia Russell Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Gender Gender Violence Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Middle East & North Africa Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs Sustainability Asian Po Source Type: news
The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the development of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in Saudi Arabia
CONCLUSION: This study revealed a significantly higher prevalence of high perceived stress in respondents with new-onset OCD contamination symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic. This implies that a biodisaster is associated with high psychological morbidity.PMID:34187919 | DOI:10.15537/smj.2021.42.7.20210181
Source: Saudi Medical Journal - June 30, 2021 Category: Middle East Health Authors: Deemah A Alateeq Haneen N Almughera Tharaa N Almughera Raghad F Alfedeah Taeef S Nasser Khozama A Alaraj Source Type: research
