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The pooled prevalence of anxiety and depression in Eastern Europe were 30% and 27%, respectively. Forty-one per cent of frontline healthcare workers suffered mental health symptoms. Southeastern Europe (Balkans) had lower prevalence of mental health symptoms than the rest of Eastern Europe. To perform a systematic and meta-analysis on the prevalence rates of mental health symptoms including anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population in Eastern Europe, as well as three select sub-populations: students, general healthcare workers, and frontline healthcare workers. Studies in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and medRxiv up to 6 February 2021. Prevalence rates of mental health symptoms in the general population and key sub-populations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe. Data were pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence rates of anxiety and depression. The meta-analysis identifies and includes 21 studies and 26 independent samples in Eastern Europe. Poland (n = 4), Serbia (n = 4), Russia (n = 3), and Croatia (n = 3) had the greatest number of studies. To our knowledge, no studies have been conducted in eleven Eastern European countries including Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The pooled prevalence of anxiety in 18 studies with 22 samples was 30% (95% CI: 24-37%) pooled prevalence of depression in 18 studies with 23 samples was 27% (95% CI: 21-34%). The cumulative evidence from the meta-analysis reveals high prevalence rates of clinically significant symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe. The findings suggest evidence of a potential mental health crisis in Eastern Europe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Our synthesis also reveals a relative lack of studies in certain Eastern European countries as well as high heterogeneities among the existing studies, calling for more effort to achieve evidence-based mental healthcare in Eastern Europe.

Since December 2019, the world is potentially facing one of the most difficult infectious situations of the last decades. COVID-19 epidemic warrants consideration as a mass casualty incident (MCI) of the highest nature. An optimal MCI/disaster management should consider all four phases of the so-called disaster cycle: mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the worldwide unpreparedness to face a global MCI. This present paper thus represents a call for action to solicitate governments and the Global Community to actively start effective plans to promote and improve MCI management preparedness in general, and with an obvious current focus on COVID-19.

Mugre Rosa de Fernanda Trías narra la historia de una mujer que debe enfrentarse a la destrucción de todo lo conocido ante la irrupción de una epidemia contemporánea. Es, en ese sentido, una novela distópica que pronostica el fin de la ciudad moderna por cuenta del sobre consumo. Las oleadas de una gran bruma tóxica dejan al descubierto la fragilidad de una sociedad en la que no existe la noción de comunidad. En el centro de la crisis sanitaria está el hambre como manifestación del vacío en tanto revés de la promesa neoliberal.

Almonds were once “the gold of Mallorca,” a source of modest wealth and a pillar of diversified farming systems for smallholders on the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands. Now researchers believe nearly every rainfed almond tree on the island will be dead within as few as five years. The introduced bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, enabled by its spittle-bug vector, and emboldened by climate change, has flooded the xylem of these rainfed trees, impeding the flow of fluid and nutrients to the point where the tree can no longer survive. This article enrolls feminist theorizations of care and agential realism to broaden the political scope and stakes of a plant epidemic. I argue that by attending to the care relations underlying pathogenicity we can shift from narratives of landscape purification toward a more-than-human politics of care. Una vez las almendras eran “el oro de Mallorca,” una fuente de riqueza modesta y un pilar de un sistema de agricultura diversificada para los payeses (campesinos) de la isla más grande del archipiélago balear de España. Actualmente los investigadores creen que casi todos los almendros de la isla pueden morir dentro de cinco años. Una bacteria introducida, Xylella fastidiosa, apoyada por su insecto vector, el salivazo, y animada por el cambio climático, ha inundado la xilema de los almendros de secano, impidiendo la circulación de fluidos y nutrientes hasta el punto de que el árbol no puede sobrevivir. Este artículo emplea teorizaciones feministas del cuidado y del realismo agencial para ampliar el alcance político de una epidemia de plantas. Argumento que teniendo en cuenta las relaciones de cuidado subyacentes de la patogenicidad, podemos pasar de los temas de purificación del paisaje a una política más-que-humano del cuidado.

This study reports early evidence of managers' mental health and its predictors during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in May 2020. In a sample of 646 managers from 49 countries, 5.3% (32) of managers reached the cut-off levels for disorders in distress (Kessler Psychological Distress Scale-6; K-6), 7.3% (38) experienced anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder-7; GAD-7), and 10.7% (56) had depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-9; PHQ-9). Age, relative income, and work status each predicted at least one of the conditions. Managers' 'illegitimate tasks' caused by COVID-19 predicted all three. Particularly noteworthy is the finding that the degree of downsizing an organization experienced during COVID-19 significantly predicted distress, anxiety, and depression for managers at the highest level (board members) only. This study helps identify managers in need of healthcare services as the COVID-19 pandemic affects organizations and their managers around the world. * First study on managers' mental health during a pandemic. * Identifies several risk factors, including 'illegitimate tasks'.

  This film, shot in the 40s with Argentinean and Hispanic protagonists, narrates the ventures and misadventures between an Argentinean rich native and a Spanish variety artist in the ancient Buenos Aires during the last third of the 19th century. Both will be active participants during the lethal epidemic of yellow fever that devastated the city of Buenos Aires in 1871. Though finally redemptive for their love, such epidemic crisis forces to remember the permanent need to maintain an alert and foresighted attitude, scientifically supported, when facing this kind of massive population disasters.  

Com base de uma pesquisa etnográfica junto a mães, prestadores e gestores de serviços assistenciais de saúde e equipes pesquisa na epidemia do Zika no Brasil a partir de 2015 este trabalho apresenta a atuação de oito mulheres na mediação e formação de redes em diferentes domínios de cuidado que atravessam o ambiente emergencial. Discute o conceito de mediação como multifacetada, polissêmica e transitória ocorrendo no “saber correr atrás” (de benefícios) de atores na conexão entre domínios familiares de cuidado que se organizam por uma moral de relacionalidade cotidiana, do domínio de serviços de atendimento e gestão com uma moral de preservação do sistema de atendimento, e do domínio de pesquisadores com uma moral de conhecimento. Argumenta que a prática de mediação usa e preserva as redes no domínio do mediador, mostrando a sua conexão complementar a outro domínio através de ações especificas, expressando emoções em diferentes intensidades que contribuem à confiabilidade mutua e consecução de serviços. Exemplifica a atuação de quatro mediadoras dos serviços de atendimento e de gestão, duas de equipes de pesquisa, e duas de associações que representam as famílias. Termina realçando a importância do tempo emergencial na criação de mediação mais intensa enquanto a transitoriedade do evento da epidemia desfavorece continuidades.   

Despite the sparse distribution of meteorological stations and issues with missing data, vector-borne disease studies in Ethiopia have been commonly conducted based on the relationships between these diseases and ground-based in situ measurements of climate variation. High temporal and spatial resolution satellite-based remote-sensing data is a potential alternative to address this problem. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy of daily gridded temperature and rainfall datasets obtained from satellite remote sensing or spatial interpolation of ground-based observations in relation to data from 22 meteorological stations in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, for 2003–2016. Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-Net) Land Data Assimilation System (FLDAS) interpolated temperature showed the lowest bias (mean error (ME) ≈ 1–3 °C), and error (mean absolute error (MAE) ≈ 1–3 °C), and the highest correlation with day-to-day variability of station temperature (COR ≈ 0.7–0.8). In contrast, temperature retrievals from the blended Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on Earth Observing Satellite (AMSR-E) and Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) passive microwave and Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land-surface temperature data had higher bias and error. Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) rainfall showed the least bias and error (ME ≈ −0.2–0.2 mm, MAE ≈ 0.5–2 mm), and the best agreement (COR ≈ 0.8), with station rainfall data. In contrast FLDAS had the higher bias and error and the lowest agreement and Global Precipitation Mission/Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (GPM/TRMM) data were intermediate. This information can inform the selection of geospatial data products for use in climate and disease research and applications.

O presente artigo apresenta dados que retratam como foi o confinamento na França durante a epidemia da Covid-19, precisamente, para o público infanto-juvenil. O objetivo deste estudo foi aportar alguns elementos que possibilitem avançar na compreensão de como as crianças e os adolescentes vivenciaram a experiência do confinamento, na França. A metodologia elegida para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi a etnografia virtual. Por meio dos materiais publicados nos jornais franceses e no site da radio France Culture foi possível ter contato com as experiências vivenciadas pelas famílias no confinamento. Estas publicações forneceram subsídios para compreender que manter as crianças e os adolescentes confinados somente no espaço familiar, ou seja, privados do lugar não-familiar (escolas, parques, ruas), implica no processo subjetivo enquanto constituição de sujeito, cujo progresso torna-se inviável de ocorrer sem transitar entre esses dois lugares.