COVID-19: breaking down a global health crisis

SI Mallah, OK Ghorab, S Al-Salmi, OS Abdellatif… - Annals of clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the second pandemic of the twenty-first
century, with over one-hundred million infections and over two million deaths to date. It is a …

An exploration of the political, social, economic and cultural factors affecting how different global regions initially reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic

JW Tang, MA Caniza, M Dinn, DE Dwyer… - Interface …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Responses to the early (February–July 2020) COVID-19 pandemic varied widely, globally.
Reasons for this are multiple but likely relate to the healthcare and financial resources then …

COVID-19 in New Zealand and the impact of the national response: a descriptive epidemiological study

S Jefferies, N French, C Gilkison, G Graham… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background In early 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand implemented
graduated, risk-informed national COVID-19 suppression measures aimed at disease …

[HTML][HTML] Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control

BM Althouse, EA Wenger, JC Miller, SV Scarpino… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of
the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease, has moved rapidly around the globe …

Risk perception, unhealthy behavior, and anxiety due to viral epidemic among healthcare workers: the relationships with depressive and insomnia symptoms during …

J Lee, HJ Lee, Y Hong, YW Shin, S Chung… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We aimed to investigate the relationship between mental health problems and unhealthy
behaviors among healthcare workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an …

Indirect implications of COVID-19 prevention strategies on non-communicable diseases: an Opinion Paper of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on …

PA Modesti, J Wang, A Damasceno, C Agyemang… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background After its outbreak in China, the novel COronaVIrus Disease 19 is spreading
across the globe. It is an emergency the world has never seen before. Main text The …

The road to recovery: impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilization in South Korea in 2016–2022 using an interrupted time-series analysis

KJ Yoo, Y Lee, S Lee, R Friebel, S Shin… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic substantially disrupted healthcare utilization patterns,
globally. South Korea had been praised widely in its efforts to contain the spread of the …

[HTML][HTML] Effective contact tracing for COVID-19: A systematic review

CE Juneau, AS Briand, P Collazzo, U Siebert… - Global Epidemiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Contact tracing is commonly recommended to control outbreaks of COVID-19, but its
effectiveness is unclear. Following PRISMA guidelines, we searched four databases using a …

Changes in suicide rate and characteristics according to age of suicide attempters before and after COVID-19

MJ Kim, SH Paek, JH Kwon, SH Park, HJ Chung… - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study aims to identify age-related suicide-related factors and changes in suicide rate
before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: From 2018 to 2020, the …

Systematic assessment of South Korea's capabilities to control COVID-19

KJ Yoo, S Kwon, Y Choi, DM Bishai - Health Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
South Korea's COVID-19 control strategy has been widely emulated. Korea's ability to
rapidly achieve disease control in early 2020 without a “Great Lockdown” despite its …