COVID-19: Impact on Public Health and Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a worldwide public health emergency and has had a significant impact on all dimensions of health, including physical, psychological, social, and financial. Therefore, this Special Issue of Healthcare aims to reflect the full breadth of the pandemic’s impact across different populations worldwide and cover all aspects of health. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Preventive strategies associated with COVID-19 to promote health behaviours, for instance, handwashing, mask-wearing behaviour, social distancing, and vaccine acceptability, screening, testing, and tracing. Theory-based health behaviour intervention studies are highly encouraged.
• Effect of COVID-19 on job sectors, for example, changes in employment and labour force participation.
• Effect on psychosocial health across different population groups, including general, healthcare workers, geriatric, young adults, etc.

Prof. Manoj Sharma
Dr. Kavita Batra
Guest Editors

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