Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond

• Author: Pachauri, Saroj.
• TeilnehmendeR: Pachauri, Ash.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: Context of the Book -- The COVID-19 Pandemic Dynamics and Response in India -- Travel Restrictions -- The COVID-19 Health Advisory -- Testing and Screening for COVID-19 -- COVID-19 Treatment and the Impact on Pharmaceuticals -- The Context of This Book -- Responding to the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Service Delivery -- Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic

Using Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response -- Unveiling the Clinical Face of COVID-19 -- The Twin Epidemics: TB and COVID-19 in India -- Ensuring the Continuity of Sexual Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences and Lessons from the Women's Integrated Sexual Health Program -- COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in India -- The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health, Nutrition and Hunger, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Family Planning, Gender, and Health Financing

A Lifestyle Disorder that Spared Nobody: Mental Health and COVID-19 -- Malnutrition and COVID-19 in India -- Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Young People in India: The Missing Links During and Beyond a Pandemic -- Family Planning in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Gender Insights into a Unique Threat to Human Development -- Financing for a Resilient Health System in India: Lessons from the COVID Pandemic -- The Impact of COVID-19 on Vulnerable Populations -- 'I Just Want to Go Home': What the Lockdown Meant for India's Interstate Migrant Workers

From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight COVID-19 -- Changing Role of Media and Communications in the COVID Era -- Communicating COVID: Learnings and Way Forward -- Relevance of Social and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response -- Experiences of Countries that Have Successfully Contained the Pandemic -- 'Go Ahead, Go Early': New Zealand's COVID-19 Elimination Strategy -- Learnings from Asia -- The Research Imperative -- References -- Part I Responding to the Impact of COVID-19 On Health Service Delivery

2 Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic -- Introduction -- Jhpiego's Innovative COVID-19 Response Through NISHTHA -- Key Strategic Projects Under NISHTHA for COVID-19 Response -- Data-Driven Intelligence Support for COVID-19 in Maharashtra -- Intervention Rationale -- Model Description -- Maha Swasthya Citizens' Application -- Outcome Insights -- Alternate Platform for Risk Communication and Community Engagement: NISHTHA Swasthya Vaani -- Intervention Rationale -- Model Description -- Outcome Insights

Provision of Tele-medicine Services Across Health and Wellness Centers in Nagaland