COVID 19 Chronic Health Emergency Essay

Quote Related to COVID-19Bates (2019) wrote an article on long-term public health problems that are brought about by a natural disaster. While the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster is characterized by treatment and control of physical injuries and infections, long-term public health needs include psychological and mental health assistance as well as the re-establishment of health services infrastructure. The article provides significant insights into the immediate and long-term public health effects of natural disasters. In the article, David Eisenman highlights the impact of natural disasters on chronic conditions. He notes that natural disasters tend to worsen chronic medical conditions in the United States by affecting the health services infrastructure. As a result, Eisenman states that the major problem of most disasters is not the subsequent direct deaths that occur, but chronic disease emergencies.Eisenmans view that most disasters in the United States are chronic medical emergencies rather than direct deaths that occur is relevant to the current COVID-19 global pandemic. The pandemic has had significant impacts on peoples lives and public health systems across the United States. The United States is among countries with the highest rate of new COVID-19 cases and deaths worldwide. According to Katz & Banaski (2019), infectious diseases continue to emerge in different regions across the globe and affect public health systems. COVID-19 has essentially strained the U.S. public health system as new cases…

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…U.S.Secondly, the COVID-19 global pandemic generated further challenges in the U.S. approach to managing chronic conditions, which shows that it is essentially a chronic disease emergency. Even though hospitalizations for chronic conditions unrelated to the virus decreased, the pandemic has generated a chronic health emergency. It has increased burdens on the U.S. healthcare system relating to chronic disease management. Currently, health professionals in the U.S. are not only faced with the burden of chronic diseases unrelated to COVID-19 but also need to manage chronic conditions brought by the virus. In some cases, the virus has worsened the health status and outcomes of people suffering from chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes resulting in the need…