The COVID-19 outbreak in 2019 and the challenges it posed to communities around the
world, demonstrated the necessity of enhancing the resilience of communities to pandemics …

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most difficult challenge that has affected humanity in recent
decades. It has disrupted many features of development with domino effects in the social …

Throughout the pandemic, the media and scholars have widely discussed increasing social
inequality and thereby publicly pointed to often hidden and neglected forms of inequality …

This study aims to specify the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual subjective
well-being in Japan and to clarify the mechanism generating social inequality of subjective …

In the last two decades, the rise of global health studies at universities across the world
reflects the interest of a growing generation of students motivated to be involved in …

Using longitudinal data before and during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic for
a representative sample of Dutch households, we examined the role of financial stress …

Background Self-perceived exposure risk determines the likelihood of COVID-19 preventive
measure compliance to a large extent and is among the most important predictors of mental …

Using a unique cross-national dataset, we explore the interplay between household income,
coronavirus-induced anxiety, national context, and self-rated health (SRH) across dozens of …

Following the spread of COVID-19, the prolonged lockdown has adversely affected not only
the mental health but also the socioeconomic well-being of people, particularly the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered visible many socioeconomic inequalities and the
lengthy period of disruption to everyday life had disproportionate effects on the most …