About this Research Topic
Vulnerability and resilience are concepts that have long been treated as individual and contradicting topics. In recent times, we have seen that vulnerabilities and resilience can go hand in hand and that vulnerabilities cannot be conceptualized only in simple terms because intersectionality must be considered as well as social, organizational, and systemic aspects and processes. One example is that women are more vulnerable (higher values in nearly all stress related measures) in the COVID-19 pandemic. This finding has to be analyzed from an intersectional perspective, because socio-economic factors, cultural factors, exposure to COVID-19 and the type of occupation (e.g. healthcare sector, frontline workers) play an important role in how vulnerable or resilient women can be in a given society. The large number of studies on COVID-19 vulnerabilities makes it necessary to take a closer look at the resilience factors that often go hand in hand with potential vulnerabilities. As we see in the literature about pandemics in general and COVID-19, there are some individual, organizational and systemic vulnerabilities that can be found in all pandemics. From that we can assume that there will be resilience factors within the same concepts that may buffer vulnerabilities.
Covid-19 has enabled a widespread cooperation and networking between scientists all over the world as well as from formerly distant disciplines. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example, the major goal of the present Research Topic is to collect interdisciplinary, transnational, and multimethod approaches dealing with vulnerability and resilience to systematize and further broaden the knowledge about the linkage of the two concepts on all three levels (individual, organizational, systemic).
We encourage articles from different disciplinary perspectives, e.g. medicine, science, social sciences, public health, nursing, veterinary medicine (one health approach) or psychology. Furthermore, we welcome submissions using mixed method approaches, qualitative approaches, theoretical approaches as well as case examples. By approaching the topic from different angles, we hope to shed more light on the topic of resilience and vulnerability in pandemics.
We particularly encourage contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
• Social, organizational, and systemic aspects and processes of vulnerabilities and resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Vulnerabilities and resilience factors of diverse population groups (e.g. women, young adults, the elderly, children) and professional groups (e.g. intensive care nurses, physicians, staff of emergency services) in the context of COVID-19.
• Human, societal, and ecological health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Multi-level theoretical models or conceptualizations of vulnerabilities and resilience factors in pandemics.
Covid-19 has enabled a widespread cooperation and networking between scientists all over the world as well as from formerly distant disciplines. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an example, the major goal of the present Research Topic is to collect interdisciplinary, transnational, and multimethod approaches dealing with vulnerability and resilience to systematize and further broaden the knowledge about the linkage of the two concepts on all three levels (individual, organizational, systemic).
We encourage articles from different disciplinary perspectives, e.g. medicine, science, social sciences, public health, nursing, veterinary medicine (one health approach) or psychology. Furthermore, we welcome submissions using mixed method approaches, qualitative approaches, theoretical approaches as well as case examples. By approaching the topic from different angles, we hope to shed more light on the topic of resilience and vulnerability in pandemics.
We particularly encourage contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
• Social, organizational, and systemic aspects and processes of vulnerabilities and resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Vulnerabilities and resilience factors of diverse population groups (e.g. women, young adults, the elderly, children) and professional groups (e.g. intensive care nurses, physicians, staff of emergency services) in the context of COVID-19.
• Human, societal, and ecological health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Multi-level theoretical models or conceptualizations of vulnerabilities and resilience factors in pandemics.
Keywords: vulnerability, resilience, COVID-19 pandemic, burnout, anxiety
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