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Title: | Migrant workers in China need emergency psychological interventions during the COVID-19 outbreak | Authors: | Liu, ZH Zhao, YJ Feng, Y Zhang, Q Zhong, BL Cheung, T Hall, BJ Xiang, YT |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | Globalization and health, 2020, v. 16, no. 1, 75 | Abstract: | The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been found in more than 200 countries worldwide since December, 2019. In China, a major reason for the rapid transmission of the COVID-19 in early stage of the outbreak is the huge numbers of passengers boarding their "last train home" to meet family members during the Spring Festival. Most of these travelers were internal migrant workers. In order to reduce the risk of the COVID-19 transmission, public transportation networks were suspended, and many migrant workers who returned to their hometowns needed to be quarantined for 2 weeks, which led to the delay of returning back to cities to work. Many businesses have temporarily closed because of the risk of COVID-19 transmission, leading to unemployment of many workers. Sudden loss of income and further quarantine enforcement in cities can exacerbate existing mental health problems or trigger new mental disorders among affected migrant workers. However, to date no specific guidelines or strategies about mental health services of migrant workers have been released. Health authorities and professionals should pay more attention to this vulnerable group and provide timely mental health service support for those in need. | Keywords: | China COVID-19 Mental health Migrant workers |
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. | Journal: | Globalization and health | EISSN: | 1744-8603 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12992-020-00608-w | Rights: | © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. The following publication Liu, Z., Zhao, Y., Feng, Y. et al. Migrant workers in China need emergency psychological interventions during the COVID-19 outbreak. Global Health 16, 75 (2020), is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00608-w |
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