COVID-19's Impact on Health: Physical, Mental, and Social Aspects

This report examines the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical, mental, and social health. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining physical health through exercise and healthy diets to boost the immune system and reduce the effects of the virus. The report also addresses the mental health challenges arising from social isolation and stress, recommending rest, sleep, yoga, meditation, and self-management strategies. Furthermore, it explores the impact on social health due to social distancing, proposing virtual connections and community activities to maintain social bonds. The report also discusses population health screening, including early symptom identification and diagnostic tests, while highlighting risk factors associated with the virus, such as pre-existing medical conditions. The report concludes with references to relevant research articles.

PHYSICAL, METAL
AND SOCIAL HEALTH

Physical health
Current pandemic situation of Coronavirus has been one of the main issues which is impacting
physical, social and mental health of people. It is important for people to remain fit and enhance their
physical health in an appropriate manner so that they can remain healthy and reduce impact of
Coronavirus upon health. In order to maintain physical health and bring improvement within lifestyle,
following ways can be focused upon:
 People can focus upon making physical activity a one of the most important and integral part of their
daily life style. Physical activity can help in enhancing metabolism of an individual and can bring
improvement within one’s own immune system.
 Bring changes within diet and adopt a healthy diet. This can be done by reducing consumption of
unhealthy food and beverages.

Mental health
Current Coronavirus situation has majorly impacted mental heath of people because due
to this situation involvement in social activities, isolation has increased because of which mental health of
people is getting impacted. it is important for people to focus upon enhancing their physical health in order
to enhance their immune system who are obese, suffering from asthma, have high BP etc. In order to
maintain mental of people following ways can be focused upon:
 People can focus upon taking proper rest and complete their sleep. It helps in reducing stress, anxiety
among people.
 People can focus upon doing yoga and meditation as it will help them in reducing tiredness and increase
energy. It can further help an individual in enhancing their cognitive functionality and self-esteem.
 Individuals should be motivated continuously and more emphasis upon promoting self- management
should be done.

Social health
Other than physical and mental health overall social health of people has also been impacted
due to current situation of Covid-19. Due to social distancing norms, social contact with family members,
friends have reduced. Participation in social activities have also reduced that has further impacted social
health of people. In order to maintain social health of people following ways can be focused upon:
 Connecting with close family members and friends virtually using technology though vide calls. It
can help in remaining in contact with others.
 One can focus upon participating in social community activities though vide call or social networking
sites. This will not only help in developing connection but will also help in remaining in contact with
others

Population health screening
 Identification of problem at early stage: Coronavirus can be identified if an individual is
experiencing following symptoms such as: fever, cough, dryness, shortness of breath,
running nose are common symptoms.
 Diagnostic test and medical test: nucleic acid amplification tests are done for
diagnosis of Coronavirus.
 Risk Factors: It is important to reduce chances of Coronavirus. So it is important for people
to understand that factors that increases risk of Coronavirus for people like people have
medical conditions such as: Asthma, high blood pressure, cancer, chronic kidney disease etc.
have high risk of Coronavirus.

References
 Galea, S., Merchant, R.M. and Lurie, N., 2020. The mental health consequences of COVID-19 and
physical distancing: The need for prevention and early intervention. JAMA internal medicine. 180(6).
pp.817-818.
 Jacob, L., and et.al., 2020. The relationship between physical activity and mental health in a sample of
the UK public: A cross-sectional study during the implementation of COVID-19 social distancing
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 Lee, J.H., and et.al., 2020. Performance of a Deep Learning Algorithm Compared with Radiologic
Interpretation for Lung Cancer Detection on Chest Radiographs in a Health Screening
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 Venkatesh, A. and Edirappuli, S., 2020. Social distancing in covid-19: what are the mental health
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