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The Human Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Review of International Research

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  1. Robert B. Burns

    1. Bli Bli, Australia

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  • Provides a comprehensive review of international research

  • Based on impacts of the current disruptive global virus

  • Focus on socio-economic and psychological impacts

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This book is about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human society. The current global pandemic has thrown a diverse set of entwined social, psychological, and economic disruptive impacts of human suffering on societies, groups, and individuals due to the flow on effects of not only the disease itself but massive dislocations of the everyday routines of life driven by mandated restrictions imposed by national governments. This intersecting set of experiences has evoked considerable human distress particularly in the fields of employment, education, healthcare work, and bereavement rituals. This text reviews, from existing knowledge and the research emanating in the last two years from around the world, the issues and problems faced by people and their governments.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Definitions and Background Issues

    • Robert B. Burns
    Pages 1-23

  3. A Pandemonium of Pandemics and Epidemics

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    Pages 25-57

  4. Impacts of Fake News and Conspiracy Theory

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    Pages 59-89

  5. Following Doctors’ Orders: Persuasive Communication Delivery

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    Pages 91-122

  6. Impacts on the World of Work

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    Pages 123-157

  7. Isolation, Group Identity and Community

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    Pages 159-191

  8. Impacts on Students, Teachers and Education Delivery

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    Pages 193-232

  9. Personal Pandemonium: Stress and Mental Health

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    Pages 233-272

  10. Managing Grief and Death

    • Robert B. Burns
    Pages 273-296

  11. An Ethical Dilemma: Freedom Versus Authority

    • Robert B. Burns
    Pages 297-332

  12. The Rush to Publish Research on the Pandemic

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    Pages 333-352

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 353-355
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Bli Bli, Australia

    Robert B. Burns

About the author

Robert Burns, now retired in Australia, spent 40 years teaching, and researching in universities around the world in applied psychology in various Education, Psychology, Health and Business faculties. Dr. Burns is an experienced author with over 25 texts published by major publishing houses including Longmans, Sage, Allen and Unwin, Kluwer, and Addison-Wesley.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Human Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Book Subtitle: A Review of International Research

  • Authors: Robert B. Burns

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1710-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1709-9Published: 17 July 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1712-9Due: 31 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1710-5Published: 16 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 355

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychology, general

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