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Citation |
Chigangaidze RK. Soc. Work Public Health 2021; 36(2): 98-117. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2021, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group) |
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33380283 |
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Abstract |
Utilizing the biopsychosocial model and the ecological systems theory, this disquisition explores on the risk factors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The discourse shows the interconnectedness of biological, psychological, and social domains in expatiating on the COVID-19 pandemic. It calls for the need to strengthen the resilience of the global community in the face of health outbreaks such as COVID-19. It emphasizes on the perspectives that pandemics are managed before they emerge through building systems that are resilient. Thus, it appreciates the need for a therapeutic milieu as a building block to resilience. The article calls for the adoption of a developmental stance to analyzing health outbreaks and clinical issues. The adumbration shows the reciprocity effects of the health outbreak [macrocosms] and individual factors [microcosms]. To its end, the paper implies that COVID-19 is a call for integration toward effective health planning between social policy formulators, urban and rural planners, epidemiologists, development practitioners, clinicians, researchers to mention but a few. Ultimately, the paper calls for social workers to consider a developmental-clinical social work approach which helps foster "health in all policies" so as to build resilience against the morbus and limit the proliferation of diseases. Language: en |
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Keywords |
Anxiety; biopsychosocial model; Comorbidity; COVID-19; ecological systems theory; Female; Health Behavior; Humans; Male; Models, Biopsychosocial; Nutrition Disorders; Pandemics; reciprocity; Risk Factors; SARS-CoV-2; Sex Factors; Social Class; social inequalities; Social Work; Suicidal Ideation; Systems Theory |