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 Dr. Queen Blessing Itua UN NGO Global Empowerment Movement, Nigeria |
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| Title: The Effect of COVID-19 on Public Health Mental Wellness | |
| Abstract: Around the World, there are reports of high levels of emotional, mental distress from the coronavirus pandemic levels that some experts now warn may lead to a global mental health crisis with an increase in depression and anxiety. If left without intervention, the Global mental crisis can have the potential to cripple the opportunities for healthy livelihood. The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has no doubt shone a harsh spotlight on health disparities and on the need to build a sustainable health care system. The lessons learned and the choices made now in the path to recovery will shape the trajectory of the health care system and mental wellness for years to come. Rather than an individual feeling of helplessness and treatment as usual, with all of its various drawbacks and complications of medications like antidepressants to treat the symptoms of emotional, mental distress, anxiety, etc. a mind-based, holistic living awareness, education, and mental wellness empowerment which takes into account the whole person, individual involvement and healthy lifestyle empowerment, healthy immunity, holistic stress management and building the immune system should be encouraged. The objective of this article is to explore Mind-Based, Holistic Public Health Mental Wellness Awareness, Education, and Empowerment which can help to build individual immunity as well as prevent, or manage, and alleviate high levels of emotional distress and stress-related health problems like fatigue, anger, and anxiety that often come along with pandemic, mental, and emotional struggles leading to a higher quality of life. | |
| Biography: Dr. Queen Blessing Itua, a multi-faceted graduate of the Harvard Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership, School of Public Health, is a public health practitioner and a biochemist, specialist in preventive, holistic wellness. She is an Author and Founder of the Global Empowerment Movement (GEM), UN-affiliated NGO dedicated to the empowerment of women and conducting various humanitarian missions predominantly in Africa. Dr. Queen Blessing has been honored severally with many congressional citations, including the proud recipient of the prestigious and coveted national President’s Lifetime Achievement Award presented by President Barrack Obama. | |
