COVID-19 Impact on Women and Gender Equality

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will publish a series of high-quality articles on key topics on the impact of COVID-19 on Women and Gender Equity.

The papers will be directed towards health professionals, women’s health experts, public health workers, social scientists, policy makers, and others concerned with the health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations. The COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in the past 100 years with at least 250 million cases and 5 million deaths.  Acute infections with COVID19 have a gender bias towards males. However, the pandemic has led to widespread social, economic and public health disruption.  Lower socioeconomic groups, minority groups and children have been adversely affected.  Many women have had to bear the burden of additional problems due to disrupted maternal and child care, a collapse in routine vaccinations and increased the rates of malnutrition.

It is now apparent that up to one third of cases of COVID19 have residual disability (“Long Covid”) that may not resolve for months or years and in a minority of cases is permanent.   These changes range from chronic fatigue to permanent neurological dysfunction. These have had a disproportionate impact on women in societies at all levels of development and in their own health suffers. We welcome papers on all aspects of gender and COVID19 and particularly related to women’s health.  We also aim to include papers on epidemiology, including the social determinants of health, and prevention of further long-term morbidity. Papers from lower- and middle-income countries that document the burden of the pandemic on society are welcome. As the epidemic passes its peak, we will document the tragic impact on women to serve as guidance if the world is ever faced with another pandemic.

Papers could be either research papers with a detailed summary of authors own work, papers highlighting the ‘state-of-the-art developments’ in managing the short- and long-term impact of the pandemic and systematic reviews.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in IJERPH. 

Prof. Dr. Colin W. Binns
Dr. Mi Kyung Lee
Guest Editors

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• COVID-19
• corona virus
• demography
• breastfeeding
• disadvantage
• access to therapy
• food shortages
• malnutrition
• education
• child vaccination disruptions during COVID
• vaccine hesitancy
• long COVID
• women' health
• gender issues