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metadata.artigo.dc.title: COVID 19 pandemic: mental health challenges of internal migrant workers of India
metadata.artigo.dc.creator: Choudhari, Ranjana
metadata.artigo.dc.subject: COVID-19 - Mental health
Internal migrants
Occupational health
Pandemic
Worker
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
metadata.artigo.dc.publisher: Elsevier
metadata.artigo.dc.date.issued: Dec-2020
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.citation: CHOUDHARI, R. COVID 19 pandemic: mental health challenges of internal migrant workers of India. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, [S.l.], v. 54, Dec. 2020.
metadata.artigo.dc.description.abstract: COVID- 19, a biomedical disease has serious physical and tremendous mental health implications as the rapidly spreading pandemic. One of the most vulnerable, but neglected, an occupational community of internal migrant workers is prone for development of psychological ill-effects due to double whammy impact of COVID-19 crisis and concomitant adverse occupational scenario. Permutations and combinations of the factors viz susceptibility for new viral infections, potential to act as vectors of transmission of infection, high prevalence of pre-existing physical health morbidities such as occupational pneumoconiosis, tuberculosis, HIV infections, pre-existing psychological morbidities, adverse psychosocial factors like absence of family support and caretaker during the crisis, their limitations to follow the rules and regulations of personal safety during the COVID 19 crisis, social exclusion, and inability to timely access the psychiatric services; all give rise to the peri-traumatic psychological distress to internal migrant workers. Superadded, is the blow of financial constraints due to loss of work, absence or suspension of occupational safety and health-related basic laws with associated occupational hazards, which make this occupational group highly vulnerable for the development of psychological illnesses. We attempt to draw the attention of mental health professionals, general medical practitioners and occupational health policymakers to the various, interrelated and interdependent predisposing and causative factors for the development of psychological ill-effects amongst internal migrant workers with the interventions needed to address it, from an occupational health perspective angle.
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.uri: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187620182030366X
http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/41723
metadata.artigo.dc.language: en_US
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