...Nanjundeswaraswamy T.S.; Sindu Bharath; P. Nagesh; Vignesh K.M. Purpose This study aims to evaluate and compare the quality of work life (QWL) of nurses, in pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic situations. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a descriptive research design. Data were...

...Ioanna Pervou; Panagiotis Mpogiatzidis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the close relationship between the disciplines of law and health-care studies. This interrelation has become particularly evident during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, when restrictive human rights...

...Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng; Alexander Preko; Kofi Hilla Avusuglo; Anthony Sumnaya Kumasey; Akwasi Sarfo Kantanka; Mawuli Feglo Purpose This study investigate urban migrant dwellers’ gender and age differences in response to the specific phobia of COVID-19 and hesitancy toward vaccines in the slum...

...Washiraporn Wannachot; Pimporn Phukrongpet; Kanokporn Rattanasuteerakul; Hanvedes Daovisan Purpose This study aims to explore how social support has reshaped the care of older adults living alone in northeast Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This study used...

... the COVID-19 pandemic. Their proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive these pharmaceutical patents has been met with resistance from a few developed countries, who believe that the abrogation of IPRs is unnecessary, even during a pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact...

...Faezeh Yazdi; Farzin Rasoulyan; Seyed Reza Mirnezami Purpose Adopting digital technology could facilitate the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some analysts argue that countries that adopted digital technology in their health sector have managed to control the virus better...

...Hehshmatollah Asadi; Omid Barati; Ali Garavand; Yaser Joyani; Masoumeh Bagheri Kahkesh; Nasim Afsarimanesh; Mehrdad Seifi; Azad Shokri Purpose This study aims to identify health workforce challenges at Iranian hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach...

...Omid Khosravizadeh; Bahman Ahadinezhad; Sima Rafiei; Rohollah Kalhor; Aisa Maleki Purpose In the time of the COVID-19 crisis, many physical, psychological and spiritual difficulties are imposed on the front line staff and overshadow their rights, resilience and retention. In addition, the loss...

...Saber Souri; Zahra Nejatifar; Mohammad Amerzadeh; Fariba Hashemi; Sima Rafiei Purpose Health-care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus, which necessitates implementing transmission prevention measures in health-care delivery facilities, particularly hospitals...

...Anas Atef Shamaileh Purpose The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic brought various and radical changes at the worldwide level. Globally, severe preventive measures were imposed to respond to the crisis such as lockdowns which forced the people to quarantine themselves inside their houses for longer...

...Alan David Smith Purpose The purpose of this study is to highlight the overshadowing of the opioid crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic. Opioids are affecting increasing numbers as the current opioid overdose death rate is increasing to 209 per day. While there appears light shining on the end...

...Lee Edson P. Yarcia; Jan Michael Alexandre C. Bernadas Purpose This paper aims to examine key obligations of states to persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) under the right to health framework in the context of COVID-19. As a case study, it also describes the state of health in places of detention...

...Robert Stalone Buwule; Margaret Ssebunya; Gyaviira Kisitu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the approach used by the Ugandan Government in implementing the Covid-19 mitigation model and establish whether it did not expose government’s failure to soundly protect and respect all her...

...Farzaneh Khayat; Lemir Teron; Farzin Rasoulyan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate socioeconomic factors related to COVID-19 mortality rates in New York City (NYC) to understand the connections between socioeconomic variables, including race and income and the disease. Design...

...Christianne France Collantes Purpose This paper aims to offer Sitio San Roque, an informal settlement in the Philippines as a case study to explore long-term "forgetful" urban development planning in the Philippines, and the renewed visibility of the urban poor under COVID-19 lockdown. It connects...

...Mohan J. Dutta Purpose The purpose of this manuscript is to examine the negotiations of health among low-wage migrant workers in Singapore amidst the COVID-19 outbreaks in dormitories housing them. In doing so, the manuscript attends to the ways in which human rights are constituted amidst labor...

...Sonia Mannan; Jobair Alam; Md Habibur Rahman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the human rights dimensions of COVID-19 responses in Bangladesh through a viewpoint methodology in four critical areas: freedom of opinion and expression; access to information; protection of health...

...Sajidah Alhwamdih; Hamzeh Y. Abunab; Abdullah Ahmad Algunmeeyn; Imad Alfayoumi; Sana Hawamdeh Purpose Nurses are at the front line in facing the COVID-19 outbreak and are at increased risk of becoming infected and might be the source of transmission in health-care facilities and the community...

...Konrad Szocik; Rakhat Abylkasymova Purpose Current covid-19 pandemic challenges health-care ethics. Ones of the most important challenges are medical resources allocation and a duty to treat, often addressed to medical personnel. This paper suggests that there are good reasons to rethink our...

...Anas Atef Shamaileh Purpose The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic in the late 2019 was accompanied by various consequences that included almost the entire life aspects worldwide. To cope with the pandemic, imposing restricted measures was required, such as quarantine, lockdown and social distancing...