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COVID-19 pandemic: Health and social impact and challenges

Abstract:

Pandemics are serious health problems with great social repercussions. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major catastrophe with severe health and social impacts on health systems and weak socio-community organizational structures. The global mortality rate is close to five million deaths, especially in the Region of the Americas, with slow vaccination processes, due to various causes, delaying the definitive flattening of the contagion and lethality curve. The most visible socioeconomic consequences are drastic declines in national and regional economies, severe limitations in national and international mobility and uncontrolled predominance of psychosocial disorders of the population. The aim of the work was to examine the most significant health and social impacts and challenges of COVID-19 when global presence exceeds 18 months. With descriptive explanatory scope and analysis-synthesis methods, system approach and documentary analysis, an unstructured search was performed in PubMed, Google Scholar and SciELO databases until October 2021 according to selected terms.