Lessons from COVID-19 for the future: destination crisis management, tourist behaviour and tourism industry trends

History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19

Writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David White predicted in 1972 that “the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will be very dull.” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you ...

How to Minimize the Impact of Pandemic Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This pandemic is characterized by a high variability in death rate (defined as the ratio between the number of deaths and the total number of infected people) across world countries. Several possible explanations have been proposed, but it is not clear whe...

Challenges of Iranian Environmental Health during the COVID-19 Epidemic: Lessons for the Future

Emerging and communicable infectious diseases are one of the major public health challenges that adherence to the principles of primary health care can prevent the rising of morbidity and mortality in communities. This study investigates the environmental health challenges of Iran in Covid-19 epidemic as an emerging infectious disease. Insufficient readiness of the health system, delays in qua...

Industry in the fight against COVID-19 crisis

Domestic Violence and the COVID-19 Crisis

This letter intends to discuss how CoVID-19 pandemic and its related preventive measures such as maintaining social distance and reducing social and intimate relationships can affect the formation of domestic violence. It also points to the need for families to provide psychological support in dealing with this epidemic.