Individual and Organizational Vulnerability and Resilience Factors in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Individual and Organizational Vulnerability and Resilience Factors in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Barbara Hildegard Juen
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2023-10-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 283253631X

Vulnerability and resilience are concepts that have long been treated as individual and contradicting topics. In recent times, we have seen that vulnerabilities and resilience can go hand in hand and that vulnerabilities cannot be conceptualized only in simple terms because intersectionality must be considered as well as social, organizational, and systemic aspects and processes. One example is that women are more vulnerable (higher values in nearly all stress related measures) in the COVID-19 pandemic. This finding has to be analyzed from an intersectional perspective, because socio-economic factors, cultural factors, exposure to COVID-19 and the type of occupation (e.g. healthcare sector, frontline workers) play an important role in how vulnerable or resilient women can be in a given society. The large number of studies on COVID-19 vulnerabilities makes it necessary to take a closer look at the resilience factors that often go hand in hand with potential vulnerabilities. As we see in the literature about pandemics in general and COVID-19, there are some individual, organizational and systemic vulnerabilities that can be found in all pandemics. From that we can assume that there will be resilience factors within the same concepts that may buffer vulnerabilities.

COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience

COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience
Author: Igor Linkov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030715876

This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19. Each chapter provides a distinct contribution to the new and rapidly growing literature on the developing COVID-19 pandemic from the vantage points of fields ranging from civil and environmental engineering to public policy, from urban planning to economics, and from public health to systems theory. Contributing chapters to the book are both scholars and active practitioners, who are bridging their applied work with critical scholarly interpretation and reflection. The book's primary purpose is to empower stakeholders and decision-makers with the most recent research in order that they can better understand the systemic and sweeping nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as which strategies could be implemented to maximize socioeconomic and public health recovery and adaptation over the long-term.

Identifying Future Disease Hot Spots

Identifying Future Disease Hot Spots
Author: Melinda Moore
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0833095749

The Infectious Disease Vulnerability Index is intended to inform actions for preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks and foster greater resiliency of national health systems worldwide.

Slum Health

Slum Health
Author: Jason Corburn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0520962796

Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.

The Psychology of Covid-19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics

The Psychology of Covid-19: Building Resilience for Future Pandemics
Author: Joel Vos
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-01-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1529752086

The Psychology of Covid-19 explores how the coronavirus is giving rise to a new order in our personal lives, societies and politics. Rooted in systematic research on Covid-19 and previous pandemics, including SARS, Ebola, HIV and the Spanish Flu, this book describes how Covid-19 has impacted a broad range of domains, including self-perception, lifestyle, politics, mental health, media, and meaning in life. Building on this, the book then sets out how we can improve our psychological and social resilience, to safeguard ourselves against the psychological effects of future pandemics.

Risk and Resilience on Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic

Risk and Resilience on Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Laksmi Rahmadian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN:

Introduction/Main Objectives: This study aims to review the employee's risks and resilience during COVID-19 pandemic. Background Problems: COVID-19 pandemic brought tremendous impact, psychological and economically, across countries. To what extent employees around the world are able to adapt to the changes at the workplace and families? Novelty: This study discusses employee resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in various countries around the world, so that it can contribute to efforts to increase resilience for organizations and employees. Research Methods: We conducted a systematic review on scientific articles reporting risks and resilience on employees during COVID-19 pandemic. We used the following keywords on Google Scholar database: “employee resilience” AND “COVID-19” and additional keywords “workers resilience” AND “COVID-19”. Finding/Results: Initial search resulted 84 articles but after a thorough selection, 13 articles matched criteria for review. We found that employees were at risks for increased workload and intensity, psychological changes, emotional exhaustion, distress, and job insecurity. Individual and organizational resilience are challenged. At the organizational level, company may adapt their CSR, develop intervention programs and well-being, create flexible working hours, provide financial supports, and creating a safe and supportive work environment. At the individual level, applying effective coping strategies focusing on tasks, stress management, social, cognitive strategies, faith-based learning activities, and promoting meaning-based coping strategies help to build resilience. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic challenged individual and organizational resilience. Leaders play pivotal role on helping employees managing their resilience.

Ethics of Resilience

Ethics of Resilience
Author: LIT Verlag
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-05-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3643962118

Resilience is one of the hottest terms in the modern humanities, social sciences and beyond. The reason for this is the current situation at various levels, from ecological, health, economical to political, which requires the formation of resilience from individuals, communities, countries, institutions and humanity as a whole. The term resilience refers to a new realistic paradigm in tackling the challenges required by the modern world, in which changes are happening faster and faster and are becoming less transparent and predictable. Therefore, the paradigm of stability and protection against disturbances is no longer realistic and has been replaced by the paradigm of resilience. People, natural and social systems can no longer be protected from ruptures, but must become as resilient as possible. This, in turn, raises a number of issues involving ethical questions and challenges for religions. This book addresses these issues in a holistic and interdisciplinary way that fits the multifaceted nature of resilience. Robert Petkovšek is Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana. Professor Bojan Žalec is The Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Ethics at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana.

Psychology and Covid-19 in the Americas

Psychology and Covid-19 in the Americas
Author: Nelson Portillo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-11-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3031385020

This book is the first of two volumes that bring together the works presented at the congress "Contributions of Psychology to COVID-19", organized by the Interamerican Society of Psychology in 2020. This was one of the first virtual international meetings on psychology and COVID-19 in the world and brought together researchers and professionals from South, Central and North America in a single online event. The content of both volumes includes many of the first issues addressed by researchers, scholars, and practitioners across the Americas at the start of the pandemic – before vaccines, before knowledge of treatment and impact, before our worlds and daily lives were forever changed. Chapters in the first volume focus on the impacts of the pandemic in mental health, social and family dynamics, educational processes and the work of health professionals. Chapters in the second volume are dedicated to studies addressing the impacts of the pandemic in vulnerable populations; proposals of psychological interventions to deal with the distress caused by COVID-19; strategies of coping, resilience and adaptation; and the development of psychological instruments of measurement and assessments during the pandemic. The content of these two volumes marks a baseline for the collective work initiated by psychologists who came together to answer the call to combat the pandemic across the Americas. In that sense, both volumes are truly a “snapshot in time” that could help us assess in the future how much progress we have made to apply psychology to the pressing demands of our time.

Resilience vs Pandemics

Resilience vs Pandemics
Author: Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2024-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 981997996X

The COVID-19 pandemic and other highly transmissible diseases outbreaks have given a new significance to the concept of “resilience”, placing it in the spotlight of built environment-related studies. New directions have emerged from expanding on adaptive planning, urban layouts, urban morphologies, spatial planning, healthy cities, etc. To enhance resilience in the post-pandemic era, various theories, practices, and hypotheses are being formulated by scholars around the world. For this book project, we invite chapter proposals that provide forefront discoveries about the built environment resilience during and after the ongoing pandemic. Historical perspectives of resilience and other highly transmissible diseases are also relevant to understanding the COVID-19 issues. The authors are encouraged to elaborate on critical exploratory, innovative, and cutting-edge research approaches, highlighting the effects of COVID-19 and other highly transmissible diseases in the design, planning, and perception of the built environment. We aim to gather scientific experiences, reviews, analyses, discussions, recommendations, and solutions in the fields of urban planning, urban design, urban management, environmental science, architecture, etc. The book aims to document resilience-related innovations and new perspectives for the built environment, how people’s interactions adapt to new realities, and which mechanisms, tools, and strategies are required for such transformations in the following two scales of the built environments: (1) City/district; research on planning, commuting and mobility, politics, urban configurations, regulations, transmission and prevention, models, top-down processes, innovation processes, etc. (2) Community/neighborhood; research on collaboration, transmission and prevention, isolation and quarantine, social aspects, accessibility to services, technologies, education, policies, and innovative solutions. The book covers a wide range of studies, including physical and non-physical studies, which may refer to the city infrastructure, green/blue spaces, housing, policy-making, health services, social and economic issues, etc. The findings and results contribute to the decision-making of governments, organizations, and institutions, as well as inspire scholars and future research for developing resilience in the post-pandemic era.

COVID-19 and Social Protection

COVID-19 and Social Protection
Author: Steven Ratuva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2022-01-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 981162948X

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction of people’s well-being has worsened poverty, and inequality worsened the situation of the already marginalized. At the same time, it has provided the opportunity for indigenous and marginalized communities to innovatively strengthen their social and solidarity economies to respond the unprecedented calamity in a self-empowering and sustainable way. The book explores some of the ways in which local communities have mobilized their cultural resources to strengthen their social solidarity and mitigating mechanisms against the continuing global calamity. It looks at how different communities approach social protection as a way of sustaining their well-being outside the parameters of the ailing market economy and how some of these can provide valuable lessons for strengthening resilience for the future.