Frontline Workers and Women as Warriors in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Synopsis

The Covid-19 Pandemic disrupted lives across borders and created unprecedented pressures on the health and medical infrastructure. Frontline workers were at the forefront in handling efforts to curb its devastating effects on people’s lives. This volume looks at various challenges frontline workers and women, working tirelessly both in the privacy of homes as well as professionals in public spaces faced and their immense contribution to managing the pandemic. It examines the psycho-social and health implications the pandemic and its fallout has had on the professions and personal lives of healthcare workers, sanitary workers, police, teachers, household helps, sex workers, volunteers among others. Analysing the vulnerabilities and the adaptability of nursing personnel, doctors and administrators, it also offers suggestions for rebooting health-care systems and for putting in place support-systems to mitigate the adverse gendered impacts of the lockdowns and the spread of the disease. Comprehensive and insightful, with essays from experts in different fields, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of public health, health care management, gender studies, public policy making, sociology, economics.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

332 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000687026

Related ISBNs:

9781003324515, 9781032349312, 9781032345994

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/29/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, R. C. Sobti and Vipin Sobti

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

R. C. Sobti

Edited by:

Vipin Sobti