Effective Health Communication: A Game Changer for Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
Keywords:
Health communication, health information, mass media, COVID-19Abstract
The unprecedented outbreak of fatal COVID-19 pandemic around March 2020 changed the every walk of human life drastically. While this pandemic affected a comparatively small number of nations like China, Italy, Iran and Iran first, but remaining countries were apprehensive about this evil at their doors anytime. By end of March 2020, COVID-19 infection was spreading fast in the impacted nations while its initial spread was also apprehended by many other countries which resulted into panic and extraordinary measures like partial and somewhere complete lockdown by closing down Kindergartens to Universities, Shops to Malls etc. The curfews were imposed in many nations restricting the public mobility and gathering For Business continuity, the business houses instructed their employees to work from home. Still right from kids to PhD scholars are undergoing online and remotely arranged virtually learning sessions in many countries. In this way, many words and phrases have become very common like Quarantine, Personal Hygiene, Hand Washing, Sanitizer, Mouth & Nose Masks, Social or Physical Distancing. In this context, the present paper studies the role of health communication in times of COVID-19 Pandemic crisis.
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