Document Type : Meeting Report
Authors
- Sahar Hosseini 1
- Reza Moshfeghinia 2, 3
- Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani 4
- Hafez Shojaadini 2
- Najmeh Maharlouei 5
- Kamran Bagheri Lankarani 6
1 Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2 Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
3 Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
5 Professor of Community Medicine, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
6 Professor of Internal Medicine, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Abstract
The widespread lockdown and stay-at-home calls around the world in order to halt the spread of COVID-19 have reduced social interactions, availability of social and healthcare services, as well as financial and workforce resources (1, 2). Moreover, it has led to allocating a greater proportion of healthcare resources to COVID-19 care, which impairs the services for other vulnerable groups of the society, specifically women. In addition to certain factors, including physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual aspects, which affect the individuals’ health status, regarding women’s health, two additional factors are considered, namely familial and social factors, although they overlap in certain aspects.
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