Response of the Healthcare Industry to COVID-19 and Its Impact in the Post-COVID-19 Era
A special issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 863
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sociology of health and disabilities; social sustainability and wellness; urban sociology; mixed methods; biosociology; biosocial semiotics; moral and daily sociology
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Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated many social transformations in industry, especially presenting a major challenge to the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry has taken on many challenges from which we can learn. The pandemic, among many other factors, has led to different organizational models, changes in innovation strategies, changes in production models, and transformations in occupational risk prevention. The healthcare industry has had to respond quickly to all this, with the development of vaccines, conversion of non-healthcare companies into healthcare-related companies, etc.
For this reason, the aim of this Special Issue is to understand how the biosocial transformations generated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have affected this industrial sector. We are interested in knowing if innovations have been generated, if the pandemic has meant changes for companies, what challenges this sector has had to face, what consequences the pandemic has generated at an organizational level or even if it has implied transformations in communication or in the culture of healthcare companies. In this Special Issue, we want to bring together quality research from different perspectives: sociology, psychology, economics, marketing, business organization, business ethics, and so on, all from a healthcare perspective.
We expect to publish theoretical, qualitative inquiries, quantitative papers, and case studies on topics similar to the following and within the scope of the Special Issue:
- Occupational risk prevention;
- Relations between society and industry;
- Internal changes in companies;
- Analysis of economic transformations;
- New internal and external communication strategies;
- Changes in company culture;
- Business ethics and COVID-19;
- Future challenges of industry;
- Sociology of the healthcare industry.
- New needs of heathcare companies.
In this Special Issue, contributions should address the topic of the Special Issue and be an article, conceptual paper, or review.
Prof. Dr. Juan R. Coca
Prof. Dr. Anabel Paramá Díaz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sociology of industry
- impact of COVID-19 in companies
- future of industry
- business ethics
- occupational risk prevention
- health care industry
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