Open AccessCan Developing Countries Handle the Mental Burden Due to the Lockdown Situation? Understanding the uncertainty and management of COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Jyotsna L Pandey,
Shohini Chakraborty,
Imon Chakraborty,
Pratik Ghosal,
Neelam Singh,
Sukanta Majumdar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of health management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2204-3136
pISSN - 1833-3818
DOI - 10.24083/apjhm.v15i3.401
Subject(s) - pandemic , context (archaeology) , mental health , telehealth , adversary , business , health care , public relations , developing country , covid-19 , project commissioning , telemedicine , publishing , internet privacy , computer science , computer security , political science , psychology , medicine , economic growth , disease , economics , geography , psychiatry , archaeology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Background: Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic can be referred to as a life-threatening war where every country is fighting with an invisible untold enemy. Realizing the disease severity and managing the prevention is crucial in current situations. Hence, it is time to follow the lockdown protocol until the situation improves worldwide.
Method: We have searched all the possible validated resources such as WHO, governmental data-sharing portal, news media, blogs, and existing empirical studies. We identified the significant inputs from social media platforms provided by healthcare entrepreneurs, clinicians, and interrelated different domain experts. Here we qualitatively narrated an in-depth understanding of the phenomena and proposed a few steps to deal with the mental burden in developing country context.
Result: There must be some effective strategy to reduce the mental burden and availability of the health consultancy services continuously to deal with such vulnerable situations. Telehealth is one such solution in a developed country where the healthcare system is well equipped to offer such services.
Conclusions: Here, we have presented a few proposed steps that can be adapted/practiced dealing with a similar situation in developing and densely populated nation like India. This approach may help to deal with such emergencies and challenges for healthcare management in lockdown conditions.