stigmatisation of their profession FSWs are majorly excluded from government relief programs and health services. In India, the existing laws for FSWs are rigid in nature. They emphasize on prohibition of prostitution. There is an urgent need in India to move towards a substitute model which embody...
As the federal government continues to look for ways to help the country through this unprecedented health and economic crisis, there have been several pieces of legislation that have passed, with more being proposed. Most notable were the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic S...
For starters, a large amount of funding became available for COVID-19 relief, as described by one staff: …if I can give one silver lining, like, because of the amount of funding that's flowing due to the COVID crisis, it really feels like the opportunity to move the needle and ...
First, all measures were self-reported, which raised the potential for common method biases. To minimize the method bias, we undertook several actions (e.g. separating our survey measurements, assuring confidentiality, emphasizing anonymity) (Podsakoff et al., 2003). We also conducted CFA to ...
Here, we include data from 19,161 self-reported PCR tests to create a symptom-based model to estimate the individual probability of symptomatic COVID-19, with an AUC of 0.78 (95% CI 0.74–0.83) in an external dataset. These individual probabilities are employed to estimate daily regional CO...
The following responses are indicative of the need to adjust, and also reveal the various forms of self-care that healthcare workers employed in coping with the challenges of working on the frontline. While disruption was variously experienced, in negative, positive and/or ambiguous ways, ...
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered an economic shock to China, with widespread business disruptions and financial hardship for entrepreneurs. In response, the government implemented relief policies, including financial subsidies and loans, to bolster entrepreneurial resilience9. The crisis also accelerated digi...
She believed that the 2022 ESS, together with the measures rolled out earlier in the fifth and sixth rounds of the anti-epidemic fund worth a total of 30.6 billion Hong Kong dollars, as well as the wide range of relief measures in the 2022-23 budget, will accelerate the rebound of the ...
EU temporary capital relief in response to COVID-19 pandemic As we shift our attention to policy measures, we find the Stringency Index and the Containment Index, two indices that rate pandemic response efforts in areas other than economics. They are highly connected (always above 0.87) across ...
interview, and industry. We find that across racial minority groups, the hours lost by the self-employed were substantive during the pandemic, signaling that Brazilian policymakers should pay greater attention to the relief funds allocated to and policies geared towards self-employed racial minorities....