Question

Impact of the Pandemic Covid 19 (Project )What are the factors determining vulnerability? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

At the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the World Health Organization urged governments to take “urgent and aggressive action” against COVID-19. Many governments reacted with strict measures such as closing borders and quarantining entire cities. Governments all over the world enacted these policies without fully analyzing the factors that impact their effectiveness. Nor did they consider how these policies might deepen the problems for vulnerable populations in different regions.

An important step of the project was to define “vulnerability” with respect to the particular context. The project focused on the factors of employment and wage loss, access to health, and domestic violence. To identify the vulnerable population for each of these categories, the team looked to the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, considered populations above 65 years of age, and women.