Comparing the socio‐economic implications of the 1918 Spanish flu and the COVID‐19 pandemic in India: A systematic review of literature

Sharma, Aadya; Ghosh, Dibyashree; Divekar, Neha; Gore, Manisha; Gochhait, Saikat; Shireshi, S.S.

doi:10.1111/issj.12266

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“…The second factor that we found in our model was COVID-19 socioeconomic consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has made many poor countries worldwide face challenging socioeconomic consequences (Buheji et al, 2020; Patterson et al, 2021; Sharma et al, 2021; Singh & Misra, 2020). Lack of vaccines and shortcomings in medical infrastructure are the main reasons that affect negatively the poor societies widening the bridge between the poor and the rich, thus the poor are becoming poorer and the rich are becoming richer.…”

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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the “COVID Stress Scales” in Greek

Galanis

Vraka

Katsiroumpa

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, several instruments were developed to measure the psychological impact of COVID-19, such as fear, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, phobia, etc. Objective: To adapt cross-cultural and validate the COVID Stress Scales in Greek. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study with 200 participants between November 2021 to February 2022. All participants were adults, and a convenience sample was obtained. We applied the forward-backward translation method to create a Greek version of the COVID Stress Scales. We assessed the reliability of the questionnaire with the test-retest method in a 10-day window, and we assessed the validity of the questionnaire with exploratory factor analysis. Results: Our five-factor model explained 72% of the variance and totally confirmed the factors of the initial COVID Stress Scales. In particular, we found the following five factors: (a) COVID-19 danger and contamination (eleven items), (b) COVID-19 socioeconomic consequences (six items), (c) COVID-19 xenophobia (six items), (d) COVID-19 traumatic stress (six items), and (e) COVID-19 compulsive checking (six items). Cronbach coefficients alpha for the five factors that emerged from the exploratory factor analysis were greater than 0.89 indicating excellent internal reliability. Conclusions: We found that the COVID Stress Scales is a reliable and valid tool to measure stress due to the COVID-19 in the Greek population.

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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the “COVID Stress Scales” in Greek

Galanis

Vraka

Katsiroumpa

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…Transport restrictions, closure of clinics, and concerns among patients attending hospital clinics have resulted in increases in non-communicable diseases as well as increased morbidity and mortality among unvaccinated children [61][62][63][64][65]. Lockdown measures also have economic consequences, especially among developing countries [66]. Consequently, there is increased urgency for an effective vaccine to combat COVID-19.…”

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A Systematic Review on COVID-19 Vaccine Strategies, Their Effectiveness, and Issues

Khandker¹,

Godman

Jawad

et al. 2021

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COVID-19 vaccines are indispensable, with the number of cases and mortality still rising, and currently no medicines are routinely available for reducing morbidity and mortality, apart from dexamethasone, although others are being trialed and launched. To date, only a limited number of vaccines have been given emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency. There is a need to systematically review the existing vaccine candidates and investigate their safety, efficacy, immunogenicity, unwanted events, and limitations. The review was undertaken by searching online databases, i.e., Google Scholar, PubMed, and ScienceDirect, with finally 59 studies selected. Our findings showed several types of vaccine candidates with different strategies against SARS-CoV-2, including inactivated, mRNA-based, recombinant, and nanoparticle-based vaccines, are being developed and launched. We have compared these vaccines in terms of their efficacy, side effects, and seroconversion based on data reported in the literature. We found mRNA vaccines appeared to have better efficacy, and inactivated ones had fewer side effects and similar seroconversion in all types of vaccines. Overall, global variant surveillance and systematic tweaking of vaccines, coupled with the evaluation and administering vaccines with the same or different technology in successive doses along with homologous and heterologous prime-booster strategy, have become essential to impede the pandemic. Their effectiveness appreciably outweighs any concerns with any adverse events.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic and its health, social, and economic consequences are unprecedented in the 21st century to date. Historically, however, there have been far more profound and macroeconomically significant crises, such as World War I and World War II or the Great Depression in the early 1930s, as well as the Spanish flu between 1918 and 1920 [13,14]. What is different about these examples is that the COVID-19 pandemic must be considered in the context of two other decisive challenges of the world: everadvancing global climate change and rising global inequality [15].…”

Section: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Effectsmentioning

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Lessons from Globalization and the COVID-19 Pandemic for Economic, Environmental and Social Policy

Blum

Neumärker

2021

World

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The rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 not only brought many countries in the world to a state of health crisis, but also increasingly drove economic and social crisis. The roots of these crises, however, run far deeper and can be traced to decades of neoliberal political and economic actions and driving forces of globalization. Increasing globalization and liberalization of markets led to the increasing privatization of many public goods while collectivizing risks such as environmental disasters, pandemics and economic crises. This paper presents the context and emergence of these crisis states and derives public policy implications in the areas of externalities management, digitalization, and basic income based on a broad literature review. These key issues need to be addressed both during and after the crisis in order to address the problems of environmental quality and climate change mitigation, as well as rising inequality and injustice for current and future generations.

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Comparing the socio‐economic implications of the 1918 Spanish flu and the COVID‐19 pandemic in India: A systematic review of literature

Cited by 21 publications

References 56 publications

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the “COVID Stress Scales” in Greek

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the “COVID Stress Scales” in Greek

A Systematic Review on COVID-19 Vaccine Strategies, Their Effectiveness, and Issues

Lessons from Globalization and the COVID-19 Pandemic for Economic, Environmental and Social Policy

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