ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 Pandemic disrupted lives across borders and created unprecedented pressures on the health and medical infrastructure. Frontline workers were at the forefront in handling efforts to curb its devastating effects on people’s lives.
This volume looks at various challenges frontline workers and women, working tirelessly both in the privacy of homes as well as professionals in public spaces faced and their immense contribution to managing the pandemic. It examines the psychosocial and health implications the pandemic and its fallout has had on the professions and personal lives of healthcare workers, sanitary workers, police, teachers, household helps, sex workers, volunteers among others. Analysing the vulnerabilities and the adaptability of nursing personnel, doctors and administrators, it also offers suggestions for rebooting healthcare systems and for putting in place support-systems to mitigate the adverse gendered impacts of the lockdowns and the spread of the disease.
Comprehensive and insightful, with essays from experts in different fields, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of public health, healthcare management, gender studies, public policy making, sociology, economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|229 pages
Cooperation and Front-Line Warriors
chapter Chapter 1|11 pages
Basic Needs
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
Beyond cliché
chapter Chapter 5|7 pages
Nursing Personnel Confronting Covid-19
chapter Chapter 8|10 pages
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Hospital Outpatient Departments
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
Police as Frontline Corona Warriors
chapter Chapter 13|15 pages
Psychological Trauma in Frontline Workers During Covid-19
chapter Chapter 16|10 pages
Pandemic Full of Challenges for Women as Frontline Workers around the World
part II|45 pages
Women: Covid19 Challenges and Opportunities
chapter Chapter 22|10 pages
Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Work–life Balance for Homemakers and Working Women
part III|44 pages
Beyond Pandemic: Way Forward