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.
Part
1. Responding to the impact of covid-19 on health service
delivery.
Chapter
1. Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare
System During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Bulbul Sood).
Chapter
2. Using
Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response
(Mr. Gopi Gopalakrishnan).
Chapter
3. Unveling the Clinical Face of COVID-19
(Dr. Arti Singh).
Chapter
4. The Twin Epidemics: TB and COVID-19 in India
(Mr. Chapal Mehra).
Chapter
5. Self-care and COVID-19 in Africa and Asia
(Priti Dave).
Chapter
6. COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in
India (Ms. Drishya Pathak).- Part
2. Impact of covid-19 on mental health,
hunger and nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and
health financing.
Chapter
7. A Lifestyle Disorder that Spared Nobody: Mental
Health and COVID-19 (Ms. Komal Mittal).
Chapter
8. Malnutrition and COVID-19
in India (Dr. Shweta Khandelwal).
Chapter
9. Sexual and Reproductive Health
of Adolescents and Young People in India: The Missing Links During and Beyond
a Pandemic (Ms.Sapna Kedia).
Chapter
10. Commentary- Family Planning During
COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha).
Chapter
11. Gender Insights into
a Unique Threat to Human Development (Ms. Madhubala Nath).
Chapter
12.
Financing for a Resilient Health System in India: Lessons from the COVID
Pandemic (Dr. Indrani Gupta).- Part
3. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON VULNERABLE
POPULATIONS.
Chapter
13. Commentary-I Just Want To Go Home: What The
Lockdown Meant for Indias Inter-state Migrants Workers (Ms. Philo
Magdalene).
Chapter
14. From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight
COVID-19 (Ms.Sushena Reza-Paul).
Chapter
15. Communicating COVID: Learnings
and Way Forward (Ms. Nandita Suneja).- Part
4. Changing Role Of Media And
Communications In The Covid-Era.
Chapter
16. Commentary- Relevance of Social
and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response (Dr.
Sanghamitra Singha).- Part
5. Experiences of countries that have successfully
contained the pandemic.
Chapter
17. Commentary-Go Ahead, Go Early: New
Zealands COVID-19 Elimination Strategy (Dr. Rashmi Pachauri Rajan).
Chapter
18. Learnings from Asia (Dr. Saroj Pachauri).
Saroj Pachauri, a Public Health Physician has undertaken extensive research on sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and AIDS, family planning, maternal health, gender, poverty and youth. Saroj Pachauri was Regional Director for South and East Asia, Population Council. She has published 4 books, contributed chapters to 20 books, published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and numerous print and media articles. She was awarded the Grants Gold Medal for securing the first position in DPH and was bestowed the prestigious title of Distinguished Scholar by the Population Council.
Ash Pachauri, a Ph.D. in Behavioral Science and a Public Health Expert, is a Self-Care Guideline Development Group Member of the World Health Organization, Geneva. He was awarded the exclusive Overseas Research Scholarship by the Secretary of State for Education and Science, UK; awarded a full scholarship for a Ford Foundation-funded Sexual Health Education Program by San Francisco State University; and honored with the Portraits of Commitment leadership title by the United Nations. He has contributed to 5 books and authored over 55 conference papers and publications.
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