Risk Factors and Effects of the Morbus

Covid-19 through the Biopsychosocial Model and Ecological Systems Approach to Social Work Practice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21835151
AutoresRobert Kudakwashe Chigangaidze (0000-0002-3597-8776, School of Social Work, Midlands State University Faculty of Social Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe), Brooke Boen (autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas98-117
Fecha de publicación2021-02-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Work in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1937-190X • E-ISSN: 1937-1918
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19371918.2020.1859035
OpenAlexW33380283
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas130

Utilizing the biopsychosocial model and the ecological systems theory, this disquisition explores on the risk factors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The discourse shows the interconnectedness of biological, psychological, and social domains in expatiating on the COVID-19 pandemic. It calls for the need to strengthen the resilience of the global community in the face of health outbreaks such as COVID-19. It emphasizes on the perspectives that pandemics are managed before they emerge through building systems that are resilient. Thus, it appreciates the need for a therapeutic milieu as a building block to resilience. The article calls for the adoption of a developmental stance to analyzing health outbreaks and clinical issues. The adumbration shows the reciprocity effects of the health outbreak [ macrocosm s] and individual factors [ microcosms ]. To its end, the paper implies that COVID-19 is a call for integration toward effective health planning between social policy formulators, urban and rural planners, epidemiologists, development practitioners, clinicians, researchers to mention but a few. Ultimately, the paper calls for social workers to consider a developmental-clinical social work approach which helps foster "health in all policies" so as to build resilience against the morbus and limit the proliferation of diseases

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