Digital Media's Role in COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining Coverage of Women’s Health Issues
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Digital media, COVID, Marginalised Groups, Health CommunicationAbstract
As the report of UN proposes that Evidence from past epidemics, including Ebola (2014-16) and Zika (2016) provide evidence that women have always been at greater risk of exploitation, sexual violence and poor health during pandemics. Coronavirus has wrecked mankind globally. Redefining existing societal, economic, healthcare orders, the previous being proved redundant. With humankind being struck by such a treacherous virus it is vital to embark on journey of combating mechanism which is robust and inclusive of new defined societal, health and communication tools which satisfy needs particularly of the vulnerable population. The vulnerable group this paper particularly talks about is women. Pandemic of such scale leads to ruinous impact on the health of women. Health is a holistic term, it may have different meaning for distinctive individuals, in diverse societies, depending upon the challenges of those societies. The definition of health as propounded by WHO is “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
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