Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Livelihoods and other Health Issues.
Received: 04-May-2022 / Manuscript No. jrm-22-62029 / Editor assigned: 06-May-2022 / PreQC No. jrm-22-62029 (PQ) / Reviewed: 12-May-2022 / QC No. jrm-22- 62029 / Revised: 17-May-2022 / Manuscript No. jrm-22-62029 (R) / Published Date: 25-May-2022 DOI: 10.4172/jrm.1000129
The COVID-19 epidemic has led to a dramatic loss of mortal life worldwide and presents an unknown challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The profitable and social dislocation caused by the epidemic is ruinous knockouts of millions of people are at threat of falling into extreme poverty, while the number of undernourished people, presently estimated at nearly 690 million, could increase by over to 132 million by the end of the time.
Millions of enterprises face an empirical trouble. Nearly half of the world’s3.3 billion global work force are at threat of losing their livelihoods [1]. Informal frugality workers are particularly vulnerable because the maturities warrant social protection and access to quality health care and have lost access to productive means. Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, numerous are unfit to feed themselves and their families. For utmost, no income means no food, or, at best, lowers food and lower nutritional food.
The COVID-19 epidemic has had numerous impacts on global health beyond those caused by the COVID-19 complaint itself. It has led to a reduction in sanitarium visits for other reasons. There have been 38 per cent smaller sanitarium visits for heart attack symptoms in the United States and 40 per cent smaller in Spain. The head of cardiology at the University of Arizona said [2], “My solicitude is some of these people are dying at home because they are too spooked to go to the sanitarium. There's also concern that people with strokes and appendicitis aren't seeking timely treatment. Dearths of medical inventories have impacted people with colorful conditions.
In several countries there has been a pronounced reduction of spread of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, attributable to COVID-19 insulations, social distancing measures, and recommendations to not engage in casual coitus [3]. Also, in some places, rates of transmission of influenza and other respiratory contagions significantly dropped during the epidemic.
The epidemic has also negatively impacted internal health encyclopedically, including increased loneliness performing from social distancing and depression and domestic violence from lockdowns. As of June 2020, 40 of U.S. grown-ups were passing adverse internal health symptoms, with 11 having seriously considered to attempt self-murder [4]. The exploration data suggest that the epidemic has negative goods on both weight loss and food health monitoring but the goods were short lived results.
Paying attention and taking measures to help internal health problems and post-traumatic stress pattern, particularly in women, is formerly a need
Mental health
The COVID-19 epidemic has impacted the internal health of people around the world. In 2020 COVID-19 was an unknown. It spread with unknown speed across the world, dismembering diurnal life wherever it appeared. The epidemic has caused wide anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress complaint symptoms. The epidemic has damaged social connections, trust in institutions and in other people, has caused changes in work and income, and has assessed a substantial burden of anxiety and worry on the population. Women and youthful people face the topmost threat of depression and anxiety.
COVID-19 aggravated problems caused by substance use diseases (SUDs). The epidemic disproportionately affects people with SUD. The health consequences of SUDs (for illustration, cardiovascular conditions, respiratory conditions [5], type 2 diabetes, immunosuppression and central nervous system depression, and psychiatric diseases), and the associated environmental challenges ( similar as casing insecurity, severance, and felonious justice involvement), are associated with an increased threat for constricting COVID-19. Confinement rules, as well as severance and financial austerity measures during and following the epidemic period, can also affect the lawless medicine request and patterns of use among consumers of lawless medicines.
Mitigation measures (i.e. physical distancing, counter blockade, and insulation) can worsen loneliness, internal health symptoms; pull out symptoms, and cerebral trauma.
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Citation: Yuan S (2022) Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Livelihoods and other Health Issues. J Respir Med 4: 129. DOI: 10.4172/jrm.1000129
Copyright: © 2022 Yuan S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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