Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice

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...

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Main Author: Chigangaidze, Robert K.
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Language:English
Published: Routledge 2021
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19371918.2020.1859035
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4116
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description 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 [macrocosms] 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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spelling ir-11408-41162022-06-27T13:49:06Z Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice Chigangaidze, Robert K. COVID-19 Biopsychosocial model Ecological systems theory Social inequalities Reciprocity 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 [macrocosms] 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. 2021-05-06T09:14:32Z 2021-05-06T09:14:32Z 2020 Article 19371918 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19371918.2020.1859035 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4116 en Social Work in Public Health Vol.. 36, No. 2, 98-117; open Routledge
spellingShingle COVID-19
Biopsychosocial model
Ecological systems theory
Social inequalities
Reciprocity
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Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
title Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
title_full Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
title_fullStr Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
title_full_unstemmed Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
title_short Risk factors and effects of the morbus: COVID-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
title_sort risk factors and effects of the morbus: covid-19 through the biopsychosocial model and ecological systems approach to social work practice
topic COVID-19
Biopsychosocial model
Ecological systems theory
Social inequalities
Reciprocity
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19371918.2020.1859035
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