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| Published: September 25, 2020
Public health is under mental health risk: pandemic COVID-19 and stress among frontline health workers
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor and Head, Department of Education, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.154/20200803
DOI: 10.25215/0803.154
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 put the public health system in an unprecedented emergency situation. The situation affects pillars of the public health care system i.e. front-line health workers. Both work pressure and fear of infection has grossly affected their mental health. They are in the high chance of mental health crisis due to the fear and stress. The article tries to find out the possible mental health issues faced by the frontline health workers in this pandemic situation.
Keywords
COVID-19, Public Health, Mental Health, Frontline Health Workers
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Subudhi C. & Padmanaban S.;
Received: August 10, 2020; Revision Received: September 25, 2020; Accepted: September 25, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.154/20200803
10.25215/0803.154
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 3, July-September, 2020