Can Developing Countries Handle the Mental Burden Due to the Lockdown Situation? Understanding the uncertainty and management of COVID-19 pandemic

Autor: Jyotsna Pandey, Shohini Chakraborty, Imon Chakraborty, Pratik Ghosal, Neelam Singh, Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, Vol 15, Iss 3, Pp 72-79 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1833-3818
2204-3136
DOI: 10.24083/apjhm.v15i3.401
Popis: Background: Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic can be referred to as a life-threatening war where every country is fighting with an invisible untold enemy. Realizing the disease severity and managing the prevention is crucial in current situations. Hence, it is time to follow the lockdown protocol until the situation improves worldwide. Method: We have searched all the possible validated resources such as WHO, governmental data-sharing portal, news media, blogs, and existing empirical studies. We identified the significant inputs from social media platforms provided by healthcare entrepreneurs, clinicians, and interrelated different domain experts. Here we qualitatively narrated an in-depth understanding of the phenomena and proposed a few steps to deal with the mental burden in developing country context. Result: There must be some effective strategy to reduce the mental burden and availability of the health consultancy services continuously to deal with such vulnerable situations. Telehealth is one such solution in a developed country where the healthcare system is well equipped to offer such services. Conclusions: Here, we have presented a few proposed steps that can be adapted/practiced dealing with a similar situation in developing and densely populated nation like India. This approach may help to deal with such emergencies and challenges for healthcare management in lockdown conditions.
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