Supplemental Material for Assessing the REBOOT First Responders Program: Physical, Mental, and Social Health Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Social Health

On the front lines: A qualitative study understanding mental health outcomes for healthcare workers and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adjunct Professor ◽  
Frances Furio
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on various sectors and industries around the world. Globally, healthcare workers and first responders have found themselves faced with unprecedented challenges, both within and outside of the workplace. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to identify and explore the complex mental health outcomes resulting from the various new challenges experienced by healthcare workers and first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS A phenomenological qualitative study was conducted in an effort to understand the mental health outcomes resulting from the various challenges and barriers faced while working during the pandemic. A total of 31 healthcare workers and first responders were interviewed. RESULTS The mental health outcomes described were not isolated to increased stress and anxiety; participants also described complex experiences, perspectives, and feelings related to guilt, stoicism, helplessness, fear, and anger. This paper adds to the current body of literature by further exploring the personal experiences and perspectives of healthcare workers and first responders related to these complex mental health outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Continued exploration, understanding, and awareness is needed in order to continue working towards addressing these outcomes and offering potential solutions.

From front-line defence to back‑foot retreat: the diminishment of local government’s role in social health outcomes

2020 ◽  
pp. 347-364
Author(s):  
Michael Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This chapter investigates the diminishment of local government's role in social health outcomes. The 20th century led to radical improvements in public health across England and the United Kingdom (UK). Modern local government in the UK was born out of a growing concern about the links between social conditions and the state of public health. Yet while 'social determinants of health' has become a global discipline, local government has ceded its role over the last decade as its capacity has withered during the time of austerity. The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 has shown the capacity of local government to mobilise anew around public health issues, but its fundamental fiscal and constitutional weaknesses show that a new settlement is needed more than ever.

scholarly journals Association Between Spousal Suicide and Mental, Physical, and Social Health Outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Erlangsen ◽  
Bo Runeson ◽  
James M. Bolton ◽  
Holly C. Wilcox ◽  
Julie L Forman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Social Health

scholarly journals The Impacts Of A Free Health Insurance Policy In Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Khoa Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Social Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Use ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Insurance Policy ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Impact

<p>Social Health Insurance (SHI) is promoted as a policy that tackles the impoverishing effects of catastrophic spending that results from unexpected health shocks. This thesis contributes to the literature on the impact of social health insurance by examining the impact of a policy introduced in Vietnam in 2005. The new policy provided free health insurance for all children under six years. Using a difference-in-difference estimation strategy and eight national household surveys conducted between 2002 and 2016, I examine a variety of direct, indirect, and spill over effects of the policy. The direct effects of the policy are on insurance coverage, health care use, health care expenses, and self-reported morbidity of targeted children. The indirect effects are the persistent effects of the policy on the same set of health outcomes (and education outcomes) beyond the period of exposure to the policy. A third set of impacts cover spill over effects of the policy - on the health and education outcomes of older children living with targeted children, and a variety of household-level outcomes that reflect various dimensions of the wellbeing of household members. The results show that a free health insurance policy for young children has significant impacts on the health outcomes of children while they are covered by the policy and these persist, and also extend to educational outcomes beyond the age of eligibility. The policy also has positive spill over effects on older (untargeted) children living in targeted households, and positive effects on household wage income, and income per capita. On the other hand, the policy has no effects on the standard of living, household health expenditure, caloric consumption, and the likelihood of household spending on catastrophic healthcare.</p>

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