Socioeconomic Factors and Healthcare During COVID-19: A Report

This report provides a detailed analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare management, focusing on England and India. It examines the socioeconomic factors affected by the pandemic, including income, education, employment, and social support. The report further explores the rules and regulations implemented in both countries, such as lockdown measures and safety protocols. It also discusses the population and patient-bed ratios, highlighting the challenges faced by healthcare systems. The analysis includes hospital and lockdown management strategies, offering insights into the responses of both countries. The report concludes with strategies for managing COVID-19 and offers recommendations for future preparedness. The report leverages data and information to offer a comprehensive overview of the pandemic's impact on healthcare, making it a valuable resource for understanding the challenges and opportunities in healthcare management during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

THE ESSENCE OF HEALTHCARE
MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTOR WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT THE HEALTH CARE
SERVICES DUE TO COVID-19...........................................................................................3
DIFFERENT FACTORS WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT TEH ECONOMIC AND
FINANCIAL CHANGES IN ENGLAND AND INDIA DUE TO COVID-19.....................3
RULES AND REGULATIONS WHICH ARE AFFECTING THE HEALTH CARE
SYSTEM................................................................................................................................5
POPULATIONS.....................................................................................................................6
PATIENT-BED RATIO.........................................................................................................8
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT...............................................................................................8
LOCKDOWN MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................9
STRATEGIES FOR COVID-19..........................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Corona virus is an emerging disease which is having due to virus infection and arising
day by day which leads to create a huge problem for the world. People of the world, they need to
manage their day to day life due to this virus. This one is also creating the health related issues
which create some complications in such person who are having already some diseases. This
virus is able to create the challenge for many countries and their health management. There are
many countries who were facing many problem. Due to having this virus, this created many
problems for the world and ways it create many complication and health issues in many patients
or people which leads to loss of life. There are many factors which are able to affect the health
services which include social economic factor regulation population ratio and many more able to
affect the delivery of health-care services for people. Large number of population is due to not
having the proper information related to this virus and about the precaution for the prevention of
this virus. Due to not having the proper information the regulatory body of the country are
changing their guideline as per new update. This creates new rules and regulation volunteer
services which are able to affect the Socioeconomic factor and the quality of life which people
are trying to leave (Søreide, 2020).
SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTOR WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT THE HEALTH CARE
SERVICES DUE TO COVID-19
Covid-19 is threatening health-care resource and there were no information related to
origin, precaution, treatment, effect etc. Due to emerging by the growth of unknown virus strain
which is now known as covid-19 virus. This virus is the stain of corona virus family which are
able to create sudden attack due to multiple change in the worldwide such as so economical
factor. This report involves the the analysis and discussion about England and India.
DIFFERENT FACTORS WHICH ARE ABLE TO AFFECT TEH ECONOMIC AND
FINANCIAL CHANGES IN ENGLAND AND INDIA DUE TO COVID-19
There are different factors that are able to affect economy and financial changes in India and
England that are going to be discussed further.
Income
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England- There were not so many loss in the income in comparison to India but the
people of this country faces financial losses. Financial stability of this country were supported
their health care system (Nicola, 2020).
India- Income rate of the people got decreases due to lockdown. People were not able to
do their business but the spending on the daily food item increases the shortage of money.
Education
England- This country online education system were developed so there were no high
losses in the education system because the student have already familiar with this education
system. Due to covid-19 all the students gets the experience of the online system for their study.
India- Due to the COVID effect there can see the change in education. There is highly
increase in the study of online. This creates the interest in online study. Students of India faces
many problem due to this new system. They are not able to get the information through the
online classes which created so many difficulties in the education system (Pambuccian, 2020).
Employment
England- In England there where no highly registration to go for their job. There was the
restriction for not to gather around and avoid the gathering of more number of persons in the
marketplace when there is a risk of spreading of COVID virus. There is about 23% of business
temorarly got closed and about 60% of trade got loss in revenue.
India- Due to this COVID defect, many of the people lost their job because the company
got high loss due to effect of lockdown. This created high number of unemployment in this time
because having less number of work and for maintaining the physical distancing, there is not any
chance of full employee which also leads to decrease the number of employee and ultimately
creates the unemployment. There was about 45% of job losses due to impact of COVID of
mostly ages 25 to 45 years.
Family
England- In England all the families where following the physical distancing rule and the
guidelines which ware issued by the government. They are taking proper medical precautions
which can be helpful in preventing such virus (Baloch, 2020).
India- This lock down more concern about their safety and there neighbour too. Family
has taken each and every possible prevention activities to prevent the virus and to keep their
family safe.
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Social support
England- Society had supported and given their best which can help their health-care
organization by following the safety measures and the guidelines which were issued by
government.
India- The people of India have supported their health care system by providing funds for
the import of medical equipment along with to serve poor people there nearby. There are many
people who have given their best to support the community and for public welfare. There were
the higher rate of fear and anxiety during supporting the health-care people through nearby.
Social values
England- Society has supported all the community and the government by using and
applying the guidelines as safety measures which can help them to get safe from this virus (Welt,
2020).
India- In India there were the major issues which were created by the social values of
different religion. Due to not having the proper communication and information related to the
COVID with testing their confusion about the testing of COVID in the ruler area. This created
the problems and many difficulties for the health care team to help then for the treatment of
Corona. This created the and supportive behaviour regarding the health care services they are
guidelines and the precautions measures.
RULES AND REGULATIONS WHICH ARE AFFECTING THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
From the initial stage of covid-19 in both of the country England and India there were
many changes which are done by the government in the health services. There has been
implemented restrictions and safety measures time to time indefinite time period. In England this
virus first found on 22nd January of 2020 and also in India it was identified on 27 January of
year 2020 and till now taken multiple actions and regulations for the safety of the people (Rawaf,
2020).
Lockdown
England- In England there was initiation of the restrictions from late March but there
were not the whole lockdown all over the country. There were many people who don’t wanted
Lockdown. Government provided many relaxation given in May for the employees who are able
to go for their work by using their private because there was new type of lockdown which was
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developed in November 2020. There were some of the restrictions shared which was used by the
health-care organization for the prevention of covid-19 effect (Rose, 2020).
India- The first action which was taken by the Indian government which was initially
started at 22 March in year 2020. It was an experiment of 14 hour curfew which was extended as
the 21 day lockdown. Then it continuously increasing due to not getting control over the spread
of corona virus. After the 6 month lockdown give some relief and removed some restrictions to
go for the work for the economic development of the country which was gone so much down.
Safety measures
England- In England there where the self isolation period which was about 14 days which
was suggested to everyone. This was regarding to stop non-essential travels and to keep them
safe isolated from creating the gathering like parties, theaters, and pub. There where the initiation
of work from home which creates a tradition which helped so much to the employee and also for
the company who are not able to open in such situation where they were going to loss.
India- There were various restriction and orders which were given by the Indian
government such as wearing the mask, applying the proper sensitization of and hand etc. There
were restriction on the nonessential travelling after 8:00 p.m. in which it was excluding the
Medical Services and health-related issues. Government suggested for having the proper care of
health where they also provided some call services which was related with counselling for those
who where feeling and going through the psychological problems or depression (Orlowski and
et. al., 2020).
POPULATIONS
It is the one which refers to the quantitative data which are in the number and can give
the information in the number about the question how many or how much etc. Each and every
country have their own number of population in which it is being discussed about the England
and India and are discussed further.
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Image 1 Lockdown effect
England- There is about 67,885,091 people in this country in year 2020 and about
66,796,808 people in year 2019. About 80% of the total population got infected with the virus
which is COVID-19 which are able to create different complications in the human body (Pessoa-
Amorim et. al., 2020). That was the reason to get scare from this virus because there was no
information related to this virus nor any prevention or treatment in all over the world. This virus
was able to create the serious health issues in human health and leads to patients death. It can be
see that the data were very high in the initial stage of the virus where the slope can be seen after
the time spending but there after then the infected number of the population is too high which
need to be control to stop the human death due to this. There are many companies which are
trying their best to find the solution or say vaccine of this virus to stop the spread of this virus.
This virus has affected about 64,170 people of the England which is very high in number when
you are having one of the best medical facilities. This data is less due to having the best
healthcare department otherwise the number must have in double or triple in numbers.
India- There were about 1.36 billion of the population in year 2019 and there were about
9.8 million of population were found to be infected with this virus which don't seems big like the
number of infected person of England but were not small in number because this was the data
when there were no testing there in large number (Debnath, 2021). Due to this the actual infected
population were not found and data looked small in number. There were also the rumors that the
actual data after the testing are being by the government of India which was not proved due to
lack of evidence. There are about 143,032 of the population got died due to not getting the
proper treatment on basic level. Some of the hospitals were not treating their patients due to fear
of infection and not having the proper idea about the treatment procedure.
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PATIENT-BED RATIO
This is the one which is able to define the data about how many of the bed is there in the
hospital in comparison to the population. This is the quantitative data which is having or using
two types of data. This shows the information by using two types of data.
England- In this country there is highest number of bed per person or the highest patient-
bed ratio is there which is very high in comparison to India. This was the reason behind the high
number of survivor of the COVID in compare to the number of person infected in this country.
There were high recovery due to having the best medical service in the world which are having
the better healthcare which enables the healthcare team to save large number of populations
which can say about the better patient-bed ratio but this was also not enough to save all the
patient when the spread of virus were on the peak and there were not the proper information
related to its treatment. According to WHO, ratio was about 3:500 which clearly says that there
were one bed on every 500 people (Kalla, 2020). This ratio was not enough but it helped very
much to fight with this pandemic situation and helped in improving the number of recovery.
India- This country had about only one bed over 1000 number of people which is very
less in number and there were a big problem which were that due to less information and fear
they were not accepting the patient which were not having their COVID report with negative
result otherwise they were not accepting the patient. This was the reason of higher death and
there were very less control over it. There were also high price for the treatment which was not
affordable to each and every patient which causes the high number of serious patient which leads
to death of the patient (Pacces, 2020).
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
It comes under the management department of the hospital which are run and done by
using some of the strategy or plan where there is standard for each and every plan.
England- This is one of the highly serious country which is regarding the health issues
where the management is better and are able to manage the regulation and all operation in such
way that it can show the effectiveness of the high patient relationship. This can help in giving
the better response to the patient along with their health care team. There was a rule that the
healthcare member who got infected or there is any symptoms of this virus were not allowed to
go to their workplace to serve the humanity because they can be the one who are able spread the
virus and having the risk of spreading the virus on large scale. There were also some ward which
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were not regulating the patient of COVID , they were for the general health issues of other than
COVID patients. The hospital sanitation were very well to stop the spreading of virus due to
toughing the hospital surface (Tillu, 2020).
India- This is the country where the management of the hospital were very poor and they
were not ready for such virus on the country level which leads them to demolished the health
care structure. But the country and their healthcare department and the government tried their
best to reconstruct their medical team for treating high number of COVID patients. Hospital
management tried their best for managing such condition for give the better response to the
country patients. They tried their best and manage to increase the number of beds in different
places which can be use for different use in that COVID situations. There were proper sanitation
of the hospital for the proper sanitation for not getting infected due to surface virus. Sanitation
helped in providing safety from the spread of virus along with helpful in stopping or slow down
the spread which was one of best strategy during that time, when there were no more information
about this (Manupati, 2021).
LOCKDOWN MANAGEMENT
There is need of Management for the people which is unnecessary step in this situation
which were causing loss of life. In this there is management of people which can help in saving
their life from the infectious virus. In the initial stage in the COVID has spread everywhere but
there was no consciousness among the people of world. So this was helpful in spreading this
virus continuously without showing any symptoms in their people and due to this, there was a
blast of this virus infection in many people. People wearing the virus with themself during
visiting one country to another country.In initial stage when government started to make policy
to manage such virus due to lack of information they were not able to do anything (Nayar, 2021).
When government decided to shut down the country for few days which can help them to buy
some time for collecting information about this virus and find out the optional ways through
which that can be manage or treated. There were many factors which were there in lockdown
strategies in the country which were creating some fear which was hazardous that time. People
were thinking to stock some food items which can help them to live for longer period of time in
there house easily. In this report, there is analysis of two country where there were failure of
lockdown and there is also discussion about not to provide health-care in a specific way.
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Image 2 Sanitation
Lockdown in England- According to the report there is mention about there was a health
condition in the country till the last week of September in year 2020 (Lodha, 2020). Recent data
interpretation and it can be seen that there pressure on the NHS who are not able to handle such
huge amount of people as the patient. Due to having a limited number of bed and higher number
of present their crisis of the bed which created health fear. Their failure of the services in the
healthcare department due to heavy load there were limited bed which were not allowed to given
many people at a time due to this nearby of capacity of the bed there due to having limited PPE
kit. The hospital where like to give the bed to such patient having the serious health issue to save
their life. Due to higher spread of the corona virus the infrastructure of the hospital and all the
doctors who are able to help they always helping the COVID patient in the treatment. For the
proper regulation of the healthcare they were making various plans and strategies. Call the doctor
and healthcare staff here positioned for the treatment of such people who were facing different
type of complications in their health.
Lockdown in India- There was lockdown started in the 4th week of March where first
was the experiment and request which was successful and then this continued as the proper
lockdown in which there are no any type of activity either the financial or the personal. In all
over the country accept the grocery product for food product and their transportation and supply
chain. This lock down give some time to think about their strategy that how to fight with this
situation. Due to continue a longer period of lock-down people got irritated which causes to
mental depression, mental health issue, fall in immunization and many more problems in the
month of early may. Such created the huge problem for the health of Indian people. The
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government provided different contact numbers for counselling related to health of Indian
people, The person who were getting the mental issue like depression, were able to contact on
this number which where of the the health specialist (Marimuthu, 2020).
STRATEGIES FOR COVID-19
Different strategies were developed and created to fight with corona. Many countries
were facing problem the way they don't have the any strategy which can apply to tackle this virus
problem. Large number of population affected by this virus. This virus was generally spreading
as a group of virus which was initially started in the country China. Due to having the large
number of COVID ward, the normal patient were facing different type of issues, in which, one of
the main was they were not able to get the treatment of their health issue. People wear trying
different type of medicine due to misguide about their treatment of the Corona.
Strategies in England- In England there are many people who were facing such virus in
which many were infected and many of them got recovered. The term government has played a
vital role with NHS. They created a strategy of physical distancing which was to keep distance
between two person and for all. One strategy was also developed which was to use the face mask
to cover your face is very helpful in spreading the virus which was through the air. This helped
too much and help in stop the high rate of spread through the people over acting as carrier of the
virus. Such type of strategies and plan helped so much to fight with corona and these strategies
were never been successful without the cooperation of the people.
Strategy in India- Indian government strategy and plan which was driven all the
prevention and to have safety measures from such virus. The country also uses the physical
distancing and also wearing of the mask. They also uses to stop the gathering of people or any
chance of risk where there is any chance of spreading of this virus in this society. The country
also used the sensitization process which also has highly to avoid the spread of virus which is
due to touching the surface person to person.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, one is able to get the factors which are able to affect the
situation of the different countries and creating the bad impact on the health care. There is also
discussion on the Socioeconomic factor and also which affect the economic and financial
services. There is also discussion about the rules and regulations which are affecting the
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healthcare system where the population, patient-bed ratio, hospital management were described
in brief along with long-term management and history strategy which are used during the covid-
19 impact by different countries.
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