Risk Factors and Effects of the Morbus: COVID-19 through the Biopsychosocial Model and Ecological Systems Approach to Social Work Practice.
Soc Work Public Health
; 36(2): 98-117, 2021 02 17.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1003465
ABSTRACT
Utilizing the biopsychosocial model and the ecological systems theory, this disquisition explores on the risk factors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The discourse shows the interconnectedness of biological, psychological, and social domains in expatiating on the COVID-19 pandemic. It calls for the need to strengthen the resilience of the global community in the face of health outbreaks such as COVID-19. It emphasizes on the perspectives that pandemics are managed before they emerge through building systems that are resilient. Thus, it appreciates the need for a therapeutic milieu as a building block to resilience. The article calls for the adoption of a developmental stance to analyzing health outbreaks and clinical issues. The adumbration shows the reciprocity effects of the health outbreak [macrocosms] and individual factors [microcosms]. To its end, the paper implies that COVID-19 is a call for integration toward effective health planning between social policy formulators, urban and rural planners, epidemiologists, development practitioners, clinicians, researchers to mention but a few. Ultimately, the paper calls for social workers to consider a developmental-clinical social work approach which helps foster "health in all policies" so as to build resilience against the morbus and limit the proliferation of diseases.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Work
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Systems Theory
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Models, Biopsychosocial
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Soc Work Public Health
Journal subject:
Public Health
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
19371918.2020.1859035
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