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Dec 15, 2020 · Have poorer health, with conditions like diabetes, heart disease, obesity and respiratory problems all more common. Covid has also disrupted other NHS services, with...
- Health and Wellbeing
- Communities, Culture and Belonging
- Knowledge, Employment and Skills
- Nine Areas of Long-Term Societal Impact
- Conclusion
The impacts of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing have not been felt uniformly across society. COVID-19 has exacerbated existing structural and social inequalities, with particularly negative health outcomes for those already disadvantaged in society. In this chapter we identify seven areas where we expect there to be continuing challenges and opport...
A central theme across the evidence is the vital importance of community-led responses that draw upon local knowledge and resources, and build capacity and channels of interconnectedness between government, community organisations and the public. The evidence clearly shows that those communities that entered the pandemic with such infrastructure ha...
COVID-19 has had significant and unequal effects depending on where in the UK people live, their level of education, socioeconomic and health status. Wider issues around the national economy, educational infrastructure and the social security system have compounded these impacts. In this chapter we examine five areas where we consider the challenge...
Throughout this review, we have tried to retain a strict focus on the impacts caused by COVID-19 – but as we discovered, many impacts of the pandemic are an acceleration of existing trends. The evidence of impact pointed strongly to factors that preceded and will outlast the pandemic. This is to be expected, as it is also the pattern that pandemics...
This report draws together evidence across a wide range of areas on the societal impact of the pandemic. It shows that COVID-19 has generated a series of social, economic and cultural effects which will have long-term impacts. In particular, the pandemic has exposed, exacerbated and solidified existing inequalities in society. It has also made some...
Aug 4, 2022 · This paper gives a high-level overview of the short-term and long-term health harms that have arisen as a consequence of COVID-19 infections and mitigating behaviours. It covers from the...
- Mortality Main findings: mortality involving COVID-19 has been much lower during the Omicron wave of infection compared to the first wave of COVID-...
- Main findings: there has been no discernible increase in the number of COVID-19 positive patients in critical care beds during the Omicron wave of...
- The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted both the demand for and provision of healthcare. Changes in underlying health needs, such as lower levels of inf...
- Public health impacts Main findings: increasing or higher risk alcohol consumption increased during the early pandemic and has remained high the pa...
- Restrictions during COVID-19 Start End First national lockdown 26 March 2020 13 May 2020 Introduction of tiers and second lockdown 14 October 2020...
- Deaths involving COVID-19 and COVID-19 deaths: any registered death where COVID-19 is mentioned on the death certificate, whether the death was due...
- This note details the background and methodology for the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Data from the CPRD has been used by the Health...
Oct 13, 2020 · The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty, while the number of ...
May 4, 2020 · In maximising the potential for COVID-19 to have positive effects, we must understand and address why its negative effects are so starkly mediated by class, ethnicity and (dis)ability.
Aug 11, 2021 · The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our world and cost millions their lives. It’s disrupted economies and education systems and taken away livelihoods. Governments, businesses and individuals have been forced to adapt rapidly, in many cases leaning on an existing digital transformation that was already underway.
May 4, 2020 · Doctors and researchers are noticing some curious and unexpectedly positive side effects of the abrupt shifts in human behaviour in response to the covid-19 pandemic. Skies are bluer, fewer cars are crashing, crime is falling, and some other infectious diseases are fading from hospital emergency departments.
