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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has surprised health authorities around the world producing a global health crisis. This research discusses the main psychosocial stressors associated with COVID-19 in the literature, and the responses of global public mental health services to these events. Thus, a consensus and critical review were performed using both primary sources, such as scientific articles and secondary ones, such as bibliographic indexes, web pages, and databases. The main search engines were PubMed, SciELO, and Google Scholar. The method was a systematic literature review (SLR) of the available literature regarding mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic to conduct the present narrative review. Different stressors are identified in this pandemic, from psychophysiological, confinement, to social and work. Depending on the level of severity and the country of origin, various interventions have been applied that mark different ways of returning to normality and preparing new interventions. This new stressor has a direct impact on the mental health of the population, provoking governments, and health services to become more flexible, innovate and adapt to the changing situation. The use of technology and mass media could be an important tool in this aim. Independent of this, preparing the general population for possible future waves of the pandemic is currently the best measure to mitigate more serious effects on the mental health of the population.
Vicente Clemente-Suárez; Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez; Manuel Jimenez; Alberto Hormeño-Holgado; Marina Martinez-Gonzalez; Juan Benitez-Agudelo; Natalia Perez-Palencia; Carmen Laborde-Cárdenas; Jose Tornero-Aguilera. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Public Mental Health: An Extensive Narrative Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3221 .
AMA StyleVicente Clemente-Suárez, Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez, Manuel Jimenez, Alberto Hormeño-Holgado, Marina Martinez-Gonzalez, Juan Benitez-Agudelo, Natalia Perez-Palencia, Carmen Laborde-Cárdenas, Jose Tornero-Aguilera. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Public Mental Health: An Extensive Narrative Review. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3221.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVicente Clemente-Suárez; Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez; Manuel Jimenez; Alberto Hormeño-Holgado; Marina Martinez-Gonzalez; Juan Benitez-Agudelo; Natalia Perez-Palencia; Carmen Laborde-Cárdenas; Jose Tornero-Aguilera. 2021. "Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Public Mental Health: An Extensive Narrative Review." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3221.
The novel Coronavirus 2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-Cov-2) has led to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has surprised health authorities around the world, quickly producing a global health crisis. Different actions to cope with this situation are being developed, including confinement, different treatments to improve symptoms, and the creation of the first vaccines. In epidemiology, herd immunity is presented as an area that could also solve this new global threat. In this review, we present the basis of herd immunology, the dynamics of infection transmission that induces specific immunity, and how the application of immunoepidemiology and herd immunology could be used to control the actual COVID-19 pandemic, along with a discussion of its effectiveness, limitations, and applications.
Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez; Alberto Hormeño-Holgado; Manuel Jiménez; Juan Camilo Benitez-Agudelo; Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez; Natalia Perez-Palencia; Ronald Maestre-Serrano; Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas; Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera. Dynamics of Population Immunity Due to the Herd Effect in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Vaccines 2020, 8, 236 .
AMA StyleVicente Javier Clemente-Suárez, Alberto Hormeño-Holgado, Manuel Jiménez, Juan Camilo Benitez-Agudelo, Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez, Natalia Perez-Palencia, Ronald Maestre-Serrano, Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas, Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera. Dynamics of Population Immunity Due to the Herd Effect in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Vaccines. 2020; 8 (2):236.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVicente Javier Clemente-Suárez; Alberto Hormeño-Holgado; Manuel Jiménez; Juan Camilo Benitez-Agudelo; Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez; Natalia Perez-Palencia; Ronald Maestre-Serrano; Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas; Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera. 2020. "Dynamics of Population Immunity Due to the Herd Effect in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Vaccines 8, no. 2: 236.