Chiara Lombardo, Lijia Guo, Susan Solomon, David Crepaz-Keay, Shari McDaid, Lucy Thorpe, Steven Martin, Ann John, Alec Morton, Gavin Davidson, Antonis A Kousoulis, Tine Van Bortel
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organisation declared the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a global pandemic on 11th March 2020. Since then, the world has been firmly in its grip. At the time of writing, there were more than 767,972,961 million confirmed cases and over 6,950,655 million deaths. While the main policy focus has been on controlling the virus and ensuring vaccine roll-out and uptake, the population mental health impacts of the pandemic are expected to be long-term, with certain population groups affected more than others...
September 20, 2023: BMC Public Health