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When Will the Pandemic End? Suggestions for US Communities to Manage Well-Being in the Face of COVID-19

Published in 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...

Rapid Community Innovation: a Small Urban Liberal Arts Community Response to COVID-19

Published in 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...

Social Stigma as a Barrier to Covid-19 Responses to Community Well-Being in Bangladesh

Published in 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...

Community during the Pandemic and Civil Unrest

Published in 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,...

Loneliness through the Lens of Psychology, Neurology and Philosophy

Published in International Journal of Community Well-Being

COVID-19 Challenge, Information Technologies, and Smart Cities: Considerations for Well-Being

Published in 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...

Measuring Well-Being: Trial of the Neighbourhood Thriving Scale for Social Well-Being Among Pro-Social Individuals

Published in 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...

Editors’ Introduction

Published in International Journal of Community Well-Being

Thrive Health: a New Venture Connecting Patient Advocacy to Well-Being

Published in 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...