Bliss, Clinton Musikanski, Laura Phillips, Rhonda Davidson, Larry
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
With COVID-19 largely spread through communities, and the lack of a national strategy to manage the spread and impact of COVID-19 into communities in the United States (US), community well-being is at risk. Without a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to continue for years and cause millions of deaths, primarily among the elderly and the chro...
Talmage, Craig Allen Annear, Christopher Equinozzi, Kate Flowers, Kathleen Hammett, Grace Jackson, Amy Kingery, Julie Newman Lewis, Robin Makker, Kirin Platt, Audrey
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
Stories of community resilience and rapid innovation have emerged during the global pandemic caused by COVID-19. As communities, organizations, and individuals have had to shift modalities during the pandemic, they have identified ways to sustain community well-being. Prior to COVID-19, colleges and universities were hailed as anchors of economic a...
Mahmud, Ashek Islam, M. Rezaul
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
This commentary looks at the social stigma as a barrier to Covid-19 responses to community well-being in Bangladesh. The Covid-19 in Bangladesh particular the way the people respond this has many dimensions to view from sociological perspective. The main objective of this commentary is to analysis how this response is related to social stigma. Gath...
Anderson, Ronald E.
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
Beginning with the concept of community, this editorial describes the essence of community as connectedness, sharing and caring. The notion of cultural trauma helps clarify the meaning and impact of the pandemic and concurrent racial unrest. Evidence is offered of sharp decline in community wellbeing from these traumas. As in other major disasters,...
Cummins, Robert A.
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
Abusaada, Hisham Elshater, Abeer
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
Coronavirus (COVID-19) raises an essential debate about implementing the ideas and insights of smart technology in the fields of urban planning and design. This commentary sheds light on considerations and challenges in the area of knowledge in these fields as consequences of the recent pandemic. The concluded remarks cover issues with a specific f...
Baldwin, Cathy Vincent, Penny Anderson, Jamie Rawstorne, Patrick
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
We report on a trial of the neighbourhood thriving framework (NTF), a conceptual framework from psychology and social science for measuring collective subjective social well-being. It combines the notions of feeling good and functioning effectively in a neighbourhood social environment in an indicator set of 15 conceptual dimensions. An online ques...
Phillips, Rhonda G.
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
Fassihi, Farina
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International Journal of Community Well-Being
As part of the British Columbia government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, an online self-assessment tool was launched to help with symptom assessment and to provide necessary health information for people. The tool was developed by Thrive Health, a company which has been working to improve the delivery of e-health in Canada since 201...
Holden, Meg
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International Journal of Community Well-Being