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Lessons Learned by Health Professionals and Good Practices in Relation with Population Well-being Across Europe

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The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe

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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on populations’ health and well-being across the world since the beginning of 2020 to date. The pivot of this pandemic is a crucial element that has become almost as important as the virus itself, namely, the lockdown and its consequences such as the ones affecting population well-being understood in terms of health outcomes. Although the rationale for lockdown is grounded with strong epidemiological arguments, exploring the barely unseen consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of health is mandatory for the consensus of a European robust agreed position against the numerous problems associated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus as well as preventing and early-detecting future potentially similar situations. Based on the situation lived across Europe, in this chapter, we explore those consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on population well-being studies from a health outcomes perspective. The data comprises the still unknown evidence for the scientific field that has emerged from the professional experience as the virus has spread faster than the production of scientific evidence. The aim is to give voice to the health professionals’ experiences and the organizations’ initiatives in Europe through the lessons they have learned in their day-to-day practice, in many cases shared with other colleagues worldwide, sometimes supported by literature published regarding this topic and organizations’ strategical positions with the objective to extract those good practices on the basis of their experiential learning. A qualitative methodology approach based on a Delphi Technique was conducted with health professionals from different European regions and allied countries considered as experts who lived the different pandemic waves towards highlighting the most prevalent health problems observed. The chapter also stresses the health outcomes mainly affected according to their lived experience and the good practices, strategies and initiatives applied in their own professional settings to overcome the unknown and unexpected Covid-19 pandemic and improve positively the population well-being and health.

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    Manuel Lillo-Crespo

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    Iside Costantini

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Lillo-Crespo, M. (2022). Lessons Learned by Health Professionals and Good Practices in Relation with Population Well-being Across Europe. In: Dalingwater, L., Boullet, V., Costantini, I., Gibbs, P. (eds) The Unequal Costs of Covid-19 on Well-being in Europe. Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14425-7_9

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