2nd Edition of Environmental, Health and Economic Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 17520
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Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue entitled “2nd Edition of Environmental, Health and Economic Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which started at the end of 2019, has evolved into a global pandemic. To contain the COVID-19 spread, many countries have implemented lockdowns and other restrictions, including enforcing strict quarantines, prohibiting large-scale private and public gatherings, encouraging social distancing, and imposing a curfew. These control measures, though put in place to protect people from COVID-19, have had a significant impact on the environment, health, and economy. This pandemic is likely to have many life-altering, short-, and long-term effects related to health. Researchers are continuing to examine the cause and consequences of the current pandemic. Although this pandemic has led to the enhancement of the health system in many countries, the spread of COVID-19 and related lockdown measures have imposed a substantial economic burden on healthcare systems. This includes costs associated with the medical treatment of COVID-19 patients and outbreak control. This pandemic has put some health systems under immense pressure, limiting their capacity to deal with routine health issues and compounding the problem.
While the costs of enforcing these control measures are enormous, the ongoing pandemic may have some indirect positive impacts. Among them, locking down cities has lead to a sudden drop in air pollution and carbon emissions. These declines are mainly due to closing down transport, constructional works, and industrial activities. On the other hand, changes in human activity patterns, with urban residents spending more time at home, could increase the domestic emission of air pollutants. Some researchers have shown that prolonged exposure to high levels of air pollution may increase the vulnerability to and mortality rates of COVID-19. However, the roles of air pollution and aerosols in the spread of coronavirus-2 and in the increase of COVID-19 mortality rates are still under debate within the scientific community.
This Special Issue aims to explore the environmental, health, and economic dimensions of COVID-19’s impact, considering the multiple interactions between atmospheric emissions, outdoor and indoor air quality, and economic conditions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: modeling disease transmission using economic methods; the impact of COVID-19 on health and economic outcomes; the effect of COVID-19 control measures on air quality; transmission modes of the COVID-19 virus through environmental media; relationships between air pollution and COVID-19; environmental exposure and health impact assessment; lockdown impacts on waste management.
Dr. Dirga Lamichhane
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COVID-19
- lockdown
- air pollution
- air quality
- environmental exposures
- health economic impact
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