The devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women and children in 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Current issues (such as health and economy-related) emerged due to the impact of COVID-19 on women’s and children’s health. The purpose of this opinion paper is to understand the world’s health issues after COVID-19.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors study the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women and children in 2023. The authors have applied the content analysis method and reviewed the post-COVID-19 impacts on women’s and children’s health. As a result of unemployment or financial instability, the fear of economic insecurity increases cases of women and child violence, child labour and other health issues. According to the study, the authors find that post-COVID-19-related health issues increase at a high level.
Findings
After COVID-19, across the world, children and women have gone through domestic violence and health issues (i.e. stress, anxiety and so on) and the vulnerable situation of children and women has badly impacted their mental and physical health.
Originality/value
Many children were orphaned, and the poor died due to poverty. COVID-19 has had a direct or indirect effect on children and women all over the world till today. This opinion paper focuses on post-COVID-19 issues that we all have forgotten to include in our current discourse.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Southwest University, China for financial support to complete this work and be grateful to Prof Jerome Carson for his valuable guidance.
Declaration. This work is original and authors have no conflict of interest.
Erratum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article, K., M.R. and Nashrin A., K. (2024), “The devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women and children in 2023”, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-12-2023-0133, incorrectly listed the article citation in the XML. This error was introduced in the typesetting process and has now been corrected in the online version. The publisher sincerely apologises for this error and for any inconvenience caused.
Citation
Morve, R.K. and Nashrin A., K. (2024), "The devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women and children in 2023", Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHSI-12-2023-0133
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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