Nursing Care and Healthcare

Covid-19 and Global Public Health Challenges

COVID-19  become a worldwide challenge that demands researchers, policymakers, and governments address multiple dimensions which go far beyond the implications of this pandemic for health and wellbeing. Just as the UN Sustainable Development Goals involve concentrate on the connections between development policy sectors, the pandemic has exposed the complex global interdependencies that underpin economies and highlighted fault lines in societal structures that perpetuate ethnic, economic, social, and gender inequalities. As the immediate health consequences of the pandemic unfold and start to be superseded by the impact of public health containment measures, a refocusing of research and action should be taken to mitigate these impacts and also to make sustainability and strengthened resilience into future recovery.

The SNF Tracker and Supplement Data provide an indicator of the rate of virus spread within skilled nursing communities by geographic location, offering a way to better understand where and why cases are spreading, slowing, or remaining flat. Data show incremental confirmed cases and fatalities week-over-week on a per-facility basis, percent of residents with newly confirmed cases, percent of fatalities, and occupancy changes (based on CMS data) in same-store skilled nursing facilities.

One-fourth of the people in the world will be affected by Covid-19 problems at some point in their lives. Still, two-thirds of people with a known mental disorder never seek medical attention. The stigma and discrimination surrounding mental Covid-19 prevents people from seeking care. In this session, possible solutions for such stigma and the effects on psychiatric nurses themselves will be discussed