In late December 2019, a series of acute atypical respiratory disease occurred in Wuhan, China, which rapidly spread to other areas worldwide. It was soon discovered that a novel coronavirus was responsible, named the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2, 2019-nCoV). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the population’s health is unprecedented in recent years and the impact on a social level even more so. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most large-scale pandemic on earth this century, and the impact in all life sectors is devasting and directly affected human activity in the first wave. The impact on the economy, social care systems, and human relationships is causing an unprecedented global crisis. SARS-CoV-2 has a strong direct acute impact on population health, not only at the physiological level but also at the psychological level for those who suffer it, those close to them, and the general population, who suffer from the social consequences of the pandemic. In this line, the economic recession increased, even more, the social imbalance and inequity, hitting the most vulnerable families, and creating a difficult context for public institutions to address. We are facing one of the greatest challenges of social intervention, which requires fast, effective, and well-coordinated responses from public institutions, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations to serve an increasingly hopeless population with increasingly urgent needs. Long-term legislation is necessary to reduce the vulnerability of the less fortunate, as well as to analyze the societal response to improve the social organization management of available resources. Therefore, in this scoping review, 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 narrative literature review of the available literature. The aim was to assess the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on population health, where the possible interventions at the health level are discussed, the impact in economic and social areas, and the government and health systems interventions in the pandemic, and finally, possible economic models for the recovery of the crisis are proposed.

Este artículo muestra los resultados de una investigación educativa que explora los efectos de una estrategia de innovación docente sobre el nivel de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de dos asignaturas de fiscalidad de los grados de Derecho y de Dirección de Empresas. Dicha estrategia es aplicada a través de una actividad que combina dos metodologías participativas, aprendizaje cooperativo y aprendizaje basado en la investigación. Los estudiantes tienen que llevar a cabo un proyecto de investigación en pequeños grupos sobre fiscalidad en un contexto internacional, siguiendo las pautas del método científico. Para analizar la influencia de la estrategia docente sobre el nivel de aprendizaje de los estudiantes, se emplea un diseño de investigación cuasi-experimental con grupos académicos. Además, para contrastar la hipótesis principal de este estudio -la elaboración en equipo de un proyecto de investigación potencia el aprendizaje de los estudiantes en mayor medida que otras actividades no basadas en la investigación- se comparan las medidas pos-test de la variable dependiente (nivel de aprendizaje) de ambos grupos de estudiantes, experimental y de control, mediante un test de diferencia de medias. Asimismo, este estudio examina, a través de un cuestionario adhoc, la valoración de los estudiantes acerca de su experiencia de aprendizaje y las competencias que han adquirido con la estrategia docente, como, por ejemplo, el trabajo en equipo y la gestión de la información.