Defining COVID-19 as a Disaster Helps Guide Public Mental Health Policy
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be a devastating chapter in history. The consequences of the pandemic unfold daily and they extend beyond physical health. Current research suggests that it is a public mental health crisis. With regard to the physical effects of COVID-19, policy-makers have drawn from past experiences, such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003, to craft unique responses. A similar approach must be taken to address the mental health effects of the pandemic. Because COVID-19 can fit the definitions of a mental health disaster, it can be addressed using the principles of disaster mental health management. This letter to the editor presents arguments for defining COVID-19 as a mental health disaster, the challenges facing policy-makers in addressing it as such, and calls upon researchers to fill this gap in the literature.
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2020 |
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2020 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14 |
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Disaster medicine and public health preparedness - 14(2020), 4 vom: 12. Aug., Seite e44-e45 |
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Englisch |
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| Beteiligte Personen: |
Alkhayyat, Abdulaziz [VerfasserIn] |
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Disasters |
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Date Completed 31.12.2020 Date Revised 10.01.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1017/dmp.2020.301 |
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