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Displaying 15 of about 46 resultsThis study explores the relationship between poverty and exposure to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by using large-scale household surveys to quantify the differences in handwashing access, occupation and hospital access with respect to wealth status in low-income settings. The authors use a COVID-19 transmission model to demonstrate the impact of…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is both a health pandemic that is killing thousands and a socio-economic crisis that is threatening the welfare of millions. Although the pandemic affects people across all walks of life, certain groups are more impacted than others.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office…
The Uniformed Services University’s (USU) National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) collaborated with the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP), the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) and the Substance A…
Thousands of scenarios are used to provide updated estimates for the impacts of climate change on extreme poverty in 2030. The range of the number of people falling into poverty due to climate change is between 32 million and 132 million in most scenarios. These results are commensurate with available estimates for the global poverty increase due to COV…
This paper wants to understand ‘how community engagement is used for infectious disease prevention and control during epidemics’. In doing so, it reviews evidence from previous epidemics by drawing on findings from five previous epidemics - Ebola, SARS, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Zika and H1N1 - and identifying what app…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, highlig…
Nursing homes (NHs) are considered hotspots for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), given their residential environments and patient vulnerabilities. This study describes the COVID-19 preparedness of NHs across the US. Its results indicate the need for NHs to continue refining their preparedness strategies in response to local virus prevalence, residen…
COVID-19 crisis is more than a global health emergency; it is a systemic human development crisis, reflecting our interaction with the ecosystem we are part of, which is already affecting the economic and social dimensions of development in unprecedented ways.
Policies to reduce vulnerabilities and build capacities to tackle crises, both in the short a…
This policy brief addresses Commitments 1, 2, 4, and 7, 8, 10 of the Regional Implementation Strategy of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing; Goals I and 3 of the 2017 Lisbon Ministerial Declaration, and SDGs 1,2,3, 5 and 10 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of older pe…
Using an ecosyndemic lens, which draws on a multi-disease hazard context of place, this commentary highlights the importance of El Niño as a major factor that not only may aggravate COVID-19 incidence in the future, but also the broader health problem of ecosyndemic vulnerability in Latin America.
Latin America has emerged as an epicenter of the C…
This discussion paper examines the unequeal impacts of the pandemic across different groups, the potential consequences for long-term inequality, and the implications of both of these for policy. The paper reviews the evidence to make the case that, while the short-run implication of covid-19 for income distribution is uncertain and varies across countr…
This paper summarises the different shocks created by the global covid-19 crisis, and what we know about their timing, magnitude and likely welfare impacts for households in low and lower-middle-income countries. It highlights that the impacts need to be thought through carefully—it can be easy to over or understate them—and that there is considerable h…
Emergency services across the world have faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. This report explores the impact on and the response of emergency organisations, primarily in Europe, during the first peak of the crisis. The report highlights that although some countries did not experience a significant change in the ov…
Improved understanding of the overall distribution of work-place coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks by industry sector could help direct targeted public health action. In this report, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) analyzed COVID-19 surveillance data to describe workplace outbreaks by industry sectors.
The racial and ethnic disparities…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive economic shock across the world due to business interruptions and shutdowns from social-distancing measures. To evaluate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on individuals, a micro-economic model is developed to estimate the direct impact of distancing on household income, savings, consumption, and poverty. T…