Social Stigma: The Hidden Threat of COVID-19

COVID-19 infection has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease are threatened by the appearance of disease-associated social stigma in society. In Egypt, a small wave of stigma directed at different groups started to appear. Here w...

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Autores principales: Abdelhafiz, Ahmed Samir, Alorabi, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7484807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32984238
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00429
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description COVID-19 infection has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease are threatened by the appearance of disease-associated social stigma in society. In Egypt, a small wave of stigma directed at different groups started to appear. Here we report the features of COVID-19-associated stigma in Egypt and suggest recommendations to overcome this stigma before it grows and have physical and psychological impacts on society.
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spelling pubmed-74848072020-09-24 Social Stigma: The Hidden Threat of COVID-19 Abdelhafiz, Ahmed Samir Alorabi, Mohamed Front Public Health Public Health COVID-19 infection has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease are threatened by the appearance of disease-associated social stigma in society. In Egypt, a small wave of stigma directed at different groups started to appear. Here we report the features of COVID-19-associated stigma in Egypt and suggest recommendations to overcome this stigma before it grows and have physical and psychological impacts on society. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7484807/ /pubmed/32984238 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00429 Text en Copyright © 2020 Abdelhafiz and Alorabi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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