For-Profit Hospitals Out of Business? Financial Sustainability During the COVID-19 Epidemic Emergency Response

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...

Psychosocial Problems During the COVID-19 Epidemic Crisis

A study of students' lived experience of virtual education during the epidemic of Covid-19

The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experience of Guilan University students from virtual education during the Covid-19 epidemic. The method of the present study was qualitative descriptive phenomenology. Participants were 21 students who were selected through a purposeful sampling method and semi-structured interviews with them continued to the point of theoretical saturation. I...

Transformations and Strategies of the Sports Tourism Industry During the Covid-19 Epidemic

This study aimed to identify the implications of Covid-19 on sports tourism and to provide appropriate strategies. The research paradigm is interpretive, its nature is exploratory, the approach is inductive, the research method is qualitative, the research strategy is the thematic analysis and the data collection was performed using targeted library study and in-depth semi-structured interviews...

COVID-19 epidemic: What happens to other routine patients admitted in the emergency department?

Four weeks have passed from the first reported case of covid-19 in Iran. During the past month, thousands of patients ran to emergency departments (EDs) due to respiratory complaints. From the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, EDs have become particular units for admitting patients with respiratory complaints. The question is “what happens to other routine patients of ED?”

Prevalence investigation and Comparison of Anxiety of Pre-Hospital Emergency and Hospital Emergency Personnel in Birjand in Covid-19 Epidemic

Introduction: Coronavirus is a large family of viruses that may cause respiratory infections. Recently, a new coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) has caused great anxiety worldwide. Given that pre-hospital and hospital emergency staffs are the first group of frontliners to be exposed to and fight COVID-19 infection, this study aimed to investigate the anxiety of pre-hospital and hospital emergency ...