Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Saroj Pachauri, Ash Pachauri.

Part 1. Responding to the impact of covid-19 on health service delivery -- Chapter 1. Investing in a Resilient and Responsive Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Bulbul Sood) -- Chapter 2. Using Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response (Mr. Gopi Gopalakrishnan) -- Chapter 3. Unveling the Clinical Face of COVID-19 (Dr. Arti Singh) -- Chapter 4. The Twin Epidemics: TB and COVID-19 in India (Mr. Chapal Mehra) -- Chapter 5. Self-care and COVID-19 in Africa and Asia (Priti Dave) -- Chapter 6. COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in India (Ms. Drishya Pathak) -- Part 2. Impact of covid-19 on mental health, hunger and nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and health financing -- Chapter 7. A Lifestyle Disorder that Spared Nobody: Mental Health and COVID-19 (Ms. Komal Mittal) -- Chapter 8. Malnutrition and COVID-19 in India (Dr. Shweta Khandelwal) -- Chapter 9. Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents and Young People in India: The Missing Links During and Beyond a Pandemic (Ms.Sapna Kedia) -- Chapter 10. Commentary- Family Planning During COVID-19 Pandemic (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha) -- Chapter 11. Gender Insights into a Unique Threat to Human Development (Ms. Madhubala Nath) -- Chapter 12. Financing for a Resilient Health System in India: Lessons from the COVID Pandemic (Dr. Indrani Gupta) -- Part 3. IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON VULNERABLE POPULATIONS -- Chapter 13. Commentary-"I Just Want To Go Home": What The Lockdown Meant for India's Inter-state Migrants Workers (Ms. Philo Magdalene) -- Chapter 14. From Vulnerability to Resilience: Sex Workers Fight COVID-19 (Ms.Sushena Reza-Paul) -- Chapter 15. Communicating COVID: Learnings and Way Forward (Ms. Nandita Suneja) -- Part 4. Changing Role Of Media And Communications In The Covid-Era -- Chapter 16. Commentary- Relevance of Social and Behavior Change and Communications in the Media on COVID-19 Response (Dr. Sanghamitra Singha) -- Part 5. Experiences of countries that have successfully contained the pandemic -- Chapter 17. Commentary-"Go Ahead, Go Early": New Zealand's COVID-19 Elimination Strategy (Dr. Rashmi Pachauri Rajan) -- Chapter 18. Learnings from Asia (Dr. Saroj Pachauri).

Open Access

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.