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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS

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Towards a Crisis-Proof Schengen Area: Post-Covid and Beyond

by Joao bessa Pereira, Virginia izzo, Claudia Quinn and ela rautner

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Freedom in Europe: Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights

by natalia Vasnier, noe amelynCk, léo sgambato, Catherine burke, Jonas deCker and mirJam seiler

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2 Natalie Picken, 'Sexuality Education across the European Union: An Overview', Publications Office of the European Union, (2021), 6. 3 Ibid, 7. 4 Dunja Mijatovic, ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education Protects Children and Helps Build a Safer, Inclusive Society’, Commis sioner for Human Rights (2020). 5 ‘European Contraception Atlas 2020 EPF’, accessed 9 March 2021, https://www.epfweb.org/european-contraception-atlas. 6 Ludovica Anedda, Lucy Arora, Luca Favero, Nathalie Meurens, Sophie Morel, and Martha Schofield, ‘Sexual and reproductive health rights and the implication of conscientious objection’, Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs (2018). 7 Francesca Minerva, ‘Conscientious objection in Italy’, Journal of Medical Ethics (2014), 170. 8 ‘Europe’s Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview’, Centre for Reproductive Rights, accessed 1 March 2021, https://repro ductiverights.org/european-abortion-law-comparative-overview-0/. 9 Pauline Cullen and Elzbieta Korolczuk, ‘Challenging abortion stigma: framing abortion in Ireland and Poland’, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 37 (2019), 6. 10 Anedda et al., 'Sexual and reproductive health rights and the implication of conscientious objection', 51. 11 'Europe Abortion Access Project', Universitat de Barcelona (2021), accessed 15th March 2021, https://europeabortionac cessproject.org/. 12 Helga Gibbons, Mathilde Chanfreau, Irene Donadio, Eef Wuyts, Lena Luyckfasseel, Caroline Hickson, Anna Michalowicz, et al. The IPPf EN Partner Survey: Abortion Legislation and Its Implementation in Europe and Central Asia, Interna tional Planned Parenthood Federation (Brussels, 2020), 12. 13 World Health Organisation, 'Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems', (2012), 36, 78. 14 European Parliament, 'Planned Medical Treatment Abroad', accessed 15th of March 2021, 2021, https://europa.eu/youreu rope/citizens/health/planned-healthcare/index_en.htm. 15 Gibbons et al., 'The IPPF EN Partner Survey', 16. 16 Anedda et al., 'Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and the Implication of Conscientious Objection', 8. 17 Marianne Cense, Milleke de Neef, and Wilco Visscher, 'Culture, Religion and Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights Knowledge file' Rutgers (2018) 12. 18 Anedda, 'Sexual and reproductive health rights and the implication of conscientious objection', 9. 19 Anna Carnegie and Rachel Roth, 'From the Grassroots to the Oireachtas: Abortion Law Reform in the Republic of Ireland', Health and Human Rights, 21 (2019), 109-120. 20 Ibid. 21 Pierre-André Michaud, Annemieke Visser, Johanna Vervoort, Paul Kocken, Sijmen Reijneveld, Mitch Blair, Denise Alexan der, Michael Rigby, Martin Weber, and Danielle Jansen, ‘Do European Union Countries Adequately Address the Healthcare Needs of The Adolescents in the Area of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights?’ Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105, (2020), 40–46. 22 Swedish National Agency for Education, 'Sex Education: Gender equality, sexuality and human relationships in the Swedish Curricula', (2014). 23 Marcin Orzechowski, Marianne Nowak, Katarzyna Bielińska, Anna Chowaniec, Robert Doričić, Mojca Ramšak, Paweł Łuków, Amir Muzur, Zvonka Zupanič-Slavec and Florian Steger, 'Social diversity and access to healthcare in Europe: how does Euro pean Union’s legislation prevent from discrimination in healthcare' BMC Public Health, 20, (2020). 24 Ibid 25 'Sex Education: Gender equality, sexuality and human relationships in the Swedish Curricula'. 26 'About Us', Global Doctors For Choice, accessed 20 March 2021, https://globaldoctorsforchoice.org. 27 'Glossary of Summaries', European Union, accessed 21 March 2021, https://europa.eu/!UU39wR 28 'Summaries of EU Legislation: Rules on Crossing EU Borders' European Union, accessed 21 March 2021, https://europa. eu/!RW38Ww. 29 European Commission, 'Consultation: Transformation Health and Care in the Digital Single Market' European Union (2018), 15. 30 'International Partnerships' European Union, accessed 21 March 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/ our-impact_en; 'Parliamentary Questions' European Union (2008), accessed 21st March 2021, https://www.europarl.euro pa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2008-0700&language=EN.

DEFENCE & DIPLOMACY

The International Community's Response to China's Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang

by niCola hoPe and Anonymous

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ChinaFile, 14 January 2020, accessed 14 November 2020, https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/why-arent-more-countries-confronting-chi na-over-xinjiang. 16 Ibid. 17 'A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen' SPIEGEL, accessed 4 December 2020, https://www.spiegel.de/ consent-a-?targetUrl=https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-province-a-surveillance-state-unlike-anythe-world-has-ever-seen-a-1220174.html&ref=https://www.google.com/. 18 UN General Assembly, Prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, 9 December 1948, A/RES/260, accessed 4 December 2020, https://www.refworld.org/docid/3b00f0873.html. 19 Ibid. 20 Ibid. 21 'China: 83 major brands implicated in report on forced labour of ethnic minorities from Xinjiang assigned to factories across provinces; includes company reponses' Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, 1 March 2020, accessed 4 Decem ber 2020 https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/china-83-major-brands-implicated-in-report-on-forced-la bour-of-ethnic-minorities-from-xinjiang-assigned-to-factories-across-provinces-includes-company-responses/. 22 '83 Companies Linked to Uighur Forced Labor' Save Uighur, 10 March 2020, accessed 15 November 2020, accessed 2 Decem ber 2020 www.saveuighur.org/83-companies-linked-to-uighur-forced-labor/. 23 Ibid. 24 'US Blacklists 11 Firms over China’s Treatment of Uighurs' Al Jazeera, accessed 15 November 2020, www.aljazeera.com/econo my/2020/7/20/us-blacklists-11-firms-over-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs. 25 'The US Global Magnitsky Act', Human Rights Watch, 28 October 2020, accessed 4 December 2020, https://www.hrw.org/ news/2017/09/13/us-global-magnitsky-act. 26 'Responsibility to Protect', Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, accessed 2 December 2020, https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/about-responsibility-to-protect.shtml; Alex J. 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Blue Doves in Flight: Towards a New Model of Peacekeeping Communications

by Justine Fung and matthew ader

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1 Paul Williams, ‘Strategic Communications for Peace Operations’, International Peacekeeping, 26, (2019), 383-407. 2 Sebastiaan Rietjens and Chiara Ruffa, ‘Understanding Coherence in UN Peacekeeping: A Conceptual Framework’, Interna tional Peacekeeping, 26, (2019). 3 UN Information Centre, United Nations, accessed 13 February 2021, https://unic.un.org/aroundworld/unics/en/part nerships/communicationGroup/index.asp. 4 'Bangladesh: Three decades of service and sacrifice in UN Peacekeeping', (2018), United Nations Peacekeeping, accessed 13 February 2021 https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/bangladesh-three-decades-of-service-and-sacrifice-un-peacekeeping. 5 Katia Papagianni, ‘Mediation, Political Engagement, Peacebuilding’, Global Governance, 16, (2010). 6 UN Operations, United Nations, accessed 13 February 2021, https://www.unops.org/about/our-story/mission-vision-pur pose#:~:text=Our%20mission%20is%20to%20help,achieve%20peace%20and%20sustainable%20development. 7 Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), ‘United Nations Infantry Battalion Manual Vol 1’, United Nations, (2012), 48, accessed 13 February 2021, https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/peacekeeping/en/UNIBAM.Vol.I.pdf.

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

A Suggestion for Social Housing Policy in England

by oliVer bruFal

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1 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, ‘Social Housing Lettings: April 2018 to March 2019, England’, Housing Statistical Release (London, 2020), 1, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/at tachment_data/file/861471/Social_Housing_Lettings_in_England_April_2018_to_March_2019.pdf. 2 Torsten Bell, ‘In the coronavirus jobs wipeout, the young and low earners suffer most’, The Guardian (London, 2020), https:// www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/covid-19-jobs-wipeout-young-low-earners-hardest-hit; Richard Blundell, Robert Joyce, Monica Costa Dias and Xiaowei Xu, ‘Covid-19: the impacts of the pandemic on inequality’, The Institute for Fiscal Studies (London, 2020), https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14879. 3 Alex Schwartz, ‘The credit crunch and subsidized low-income housing: the UK and US experience compared’, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 26, 3 (2011), 371. 4 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, ‘Social Housing Lettings' 3. 5 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, ‘Table 600: numbers of households on local authorities’ housing waiting lists, by district, England, from 1997’, Statistical data set: Live tables on rents, lettings and tenancies, https://www.gov. uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-rents-lettings-and-tenancies. 6 Joe Beswick, Duncan McCann and Hanna Wheatley, ‘Building the Social Homes we need’, New Economics Foundation, 13,

http://www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Building-the-social-homes-we-need_191120_150504. pdf ; M. Stephens, ‘Tackling housing market volatility in the UK’, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/ default/files/jrf/migrated/files/housing-markets-volatility-full.pdf. 7 OECD, ‘Social Housing: A key part of past and future housing policy’, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Policy Briefs (Paris, 2020), 19. 8 Ibid, 20. 9 Housing Ombudsman Service, ‘Business Plan 2020-21’, 2, https://www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/wp-content/up loads/2020/11/Housing-Ombudsman-business-plan-2020-21.pdf. 10 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, ‘The Charter for Social Housing Residents: Social Housing White Paper’, Section 1, 6. 11 Ibid, Section 67, 40. 12 Ibid, Section 98, 49.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Access to Green Finance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the United Kingdom

by rebeCCa Flowers and irina tabaCaru

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1 'PM Outlines His Ten Point Plan For A Green Industrial Revolution For 250,000 Jobs' GOV.UK. (2020), https://www.gov.uk/ government/news/pm-outlines-his-ten-point-plan-for-a-green-industrial-revolution-for-250000-jobs; 'Government Takes Historic Step Towards Net-Zero With End Of Sale Of New Petrol And Diesel Cars By 2030' GOV.UK. (2020), https://www. gov.uk/government/news/government-takes-historic-step-towards-net-zero-with-end-of-sale-of-new-petrol-and-diesel-carsby-2030. 2 'London Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Delivery Plan' Transport For London, 2019, https://lruc.cont ent.tfl. gov.uk/london-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-taskforce-delivery-plan.pdf. 3 Ibid. 4 M. Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myth (London, 2014). 5 European Commission 'Standards - Air Quality - Environment' (2020) https://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/quality/stan dards.htm. 6 'Air Quality Data – London Datastore' GOV.UK. (2021), https://data.london.gov.uk/air-quality/. 7 J.M. Keynes, The End of Laissez-faire (London, 1926) 8 M. Mazzucato 'Building the Entrepreneurial State: A New Framework for Envisioning and Evaluating a Mission-oriented Public Sector', Levy Economics Institute: Working Paper (2015) 9 M Jutting, 'Exploring Mission-Oriented Innovations’ Ecosystems for Sustainability: Towards a literature based typology', Review MDPI, (2020) 3- 4. 10 GOV.UK. 'London Electric vehicles Infrastructure delivery plan', June 2019, https://lruc.con tent.tfl.gov.uk/ london-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-taskforce-delivery-plan.pdf. 11 Charge.Brussels Pitpoint Clean Fuels, (2021) https://www.charge.brussels/. 12 Dani Rodrik, 'Green Industrial Policy' Oxford Review Of Economic Policy 30, 3 (2014), 469-491. 13 Ibid, 485. 14 M. Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide To Changing Capitalism, (London, 2021). 15 Rodrik, Green Industrial Policy, 2014. 16 Ibid. 17 Ibid. 18 Ibid. 19 Ibid. 20 Ibid. 21 A. B Jaffe, 'Building Programme Evaluation Into The Design Of Public Research-Support Programmes' Oxford Review Of Economic Policy 18, 1 (2002), 22-34; , J. Van Reenen, 'Evaluation of State Aid' Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, presen tation before DG-COMP, (2013). 22 Rodrik, Green Industrial Policy, 2014. 23 Ibid 24 Ibid, 487. 25 M. Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide To Changing Capitalism, 2021. 26 Ted Greenwald, 'Secrets Of DARPA's Innovation Machine' Forbes Magazine, (2013) http://www.forbes.com/sites/tedgreen wald/2013/02/15/secrets-of-darpas-innovation-machine/. 27 Rodrik, Green Industrial Policy, (2014) 28 Ibid. 29 Ibid, 488.

EDUCATION

COVID-19 and the Education Crisis: Using the 'A-Level Fiasco' as a Catalyst for Regulatory Reform

by udit mahalingam and miChael head

P. 38 - 'A Level results day 2012' from Flickr by City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College. Licensed under - CC BY 2.0.

1 Alex Hern, 'Ofqual's A-Level Algorithm: Why Did It Fail To Make The Grade?' The Guardian (2020), https://www.theguard ian.com/education/2020/aug/21/ofqual-exams-algorithm-why-did-it-fail-make-grade-a-levels. 2 Ibid. 3 Camilla Turner, 'A-Level Algorithm Predicts Inaccurate Grades At Least A Third Of The Time, Exam Regulator’s Analysis Re veals' The Telegraph (2020), https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/16/a-level-algorithm-predicts-inaccurate-gradesleast-third-time/; Ofqual, 'Awarding GCSE, AS, A level, advanced extension awards and extended project qualifications in summer 2020: interim report', (2020), 76-82. 4 Richard Adams and Heather Stewart, 'Williamson Told About Flaws In A-Level Model Two Weeks Before Results' The Guard ian, (2020) https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/01/williamson-told-about-flaws-in-a-level-model-two-weeksbefore-results.

5 Michael Goodier, 'Top A-Level Grades Soar at Private Schools as Sixth Form Colleges Lose Out' NewStatesman (2020) https:// www.newstatesman.com/politics/education/2020/08/top-level-grades-soar-private-schools-sixth-form-colleges-lose-out. 6 Catherine Lough, 'Ofqual Knew GCSE and A-Level Results Were 'Unreliable'' Tes.com (2020), https://www.tes.com/news/ ofqual-knew-gcse-and-level-results-were-unreliable. 7 Ofqual, 'Ofqual’s Governance Framework' GOV.UK, (1 April 2010, last revised Nov 2019) https://assets.publishing.service.gov. uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/864633/Ofqual_Governance_Framework_Nov_2019.pdf. 8 Ibid. 9 Ofqual, 'Extraordinary Regulatory Framework: General Qualifications, COVID-19 Conditions and Requirements', GOV.UK ) (11 June 2020, last revised Oct 2020), https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attach ment_data/file/930810/6704_-_Extraordinary_regulatory_framework_-_General_Qualifications_COVID-19_Conditions_ and_Requirements.pdf. 10 Jessica Elgot, 'Senior Tory MP calls for abolition of Ofqual over exam grades crisis' The Guardian (2020), https://www.google. co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/18/senior-tory-mp-robert-halfon-calls-for-abolition-of-ofqual-over-ex am-grades-crisis. 11 Ofqual, 'Ofqual Handbook: General Conditions of Recognition', GOV.UK. (12 October 2017 last revised 11 November 2020), https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ofqual-handbook. 12 Ofqual, 'Ofqual Handbook: General Conditions of Regulation: Section A: Governance' GOV.UK. (12 October 2017 last re vised 11 November 2020) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ofqual-handbook/section-a-governance. 13 Ibid. 14 Ibid.

Addressing the educational needs of refugee youth in the face of COVID-19

by lameez siddiQui

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1 A. Scleicher, 'The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Insights from Education at a Glance 2020' OECD (2020). 2 Ibid. 3 Refugee Action, 'What are the real facts about refugees?' (2020), https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/about/facts-about-refu gees/#:~:text=in%20the%20UK%3F-,No.,of%20the%20UK's%20total%20population. 4 S. Weale, 'Refugee children face long delays accessing education in the UK' The Guardian (2018) 5 Mind 'How is coronavirus affecting the mental health of students?' (2020), https://www.mind.org.uk/information-sup port/coronavirus/student-mental-health-during-coronavirus/#:~:text=Mind's%20coronavirus%20survey%20results%20re vealed,health%20declined%20during%20the%20lockdown. 6 Refugee Action, 'Insights into EU citizens and EUSS, Access to vaccinations and learning in lockdown' Bulletin 08, (2021) https://www.ragp.org.uk/blog/bulletin8. 7 Refugee Support Network 'COVID-19 crisis: emerging impact on young refugees’ education and wellbeing in the UK' Policy Brief, (2020). 8 C. Heeke, N. Stammel, M. Heinrich and C. Knaevelsrud, 'Conflict-related trauma and bereavement: exploring differential symptom profiles of prolonged grief and posttraumatic stress disorder' BMC Psychiatry (2017). 9 UNHCR, 'Supporting continued access to education during COVID-19: Emerging Promising Practices' Issue 2, (2020). 10 UNESCO (n.d.) 'Refugee children are five times more likely to be out of school than others' https://en.unesco.org/news/refu gee-children-are-five-times-more-likely-be-out-school-others]

GLOBAL HEALTH

What Policies Should High-Income Countries Implement to Combat the Impact of Covid-19 on Population Mental Health

by gursharan khera, kunzang selden, Coralie gauVin-bélair, eleanor PaCe

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1 Global Health Metrics, 'Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 dis eases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017' The Lancet (2018), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6227754/pdf/main.pdf. 2 World Health Organization 'COVID-19 disrupting mental health services in most countries', WHO survey, (2020), accessed 8 December 2020. https://www.who.int/news/item/05-10-2020-covid-19-disrupting-mental-health-services-inmost-countries-who-survey.

3 Samantha K Brooks, Rebecca K Webster, Louise E Smith, Lisa Woodland, Simon Wessely, Neil Greenberg, and Gideon James Rubin, 'The Psychological Impact of Quarantine and How to Reduce It: Rapid Review of the Evidence' The Lancet, 395 (2020), 912–20. 4 Brett Marroquín,Vera Vine and Reed Morgan, 'Mental Health During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects Of Stay-At-Home Policies, Social Distancing Behavior, And Social Resources' Psychiatry Research 293, (2020) 5 Brooks et. al. 'The Psychological Impact of Quarantine'. 6 Jianyin Qiu, Bin Shen, Min Zhao, Zhen Wang, Bin Xie, Yifeng Xu, 'A nationwide survey of pscyhological distress among Chi nese people in the COVID-19 epidemic: implications and policy recommendations' BMJ, (2020). 7 Brooks et. al. 'The Psychological Impact of Quarantine'. 8 Shobhit Kumar Prasad, Aarti Karahda, Priti Singh, and Rajiv Gupta 'Role Of Mental Health Professionals In Dealing With The Stigma Attached To COVID-19' General Psychiatry 33 (5) (2020). 9 Cameron Fox, 'COVID-19 will have longterm effects on mental health. This expert explains how to limit the damage' World Economic Forum, 9October 2020, accessed 8 December 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/covid-19will-have-longterm-effects-on-mental-health-this-expert-explains-how-to-limit-the-damage/. 10 Wellbeing Trust & Robert Graham Center, 'The COVID Pandemic Could Lead to 75,000 Additional Deaths from Alco hol and Drug Misuse and Suicide' Wellbeing Trust (2020), https://wellbeingtrust.org/areas-of-focus/policy-and-advocacy/re ports/projected-deaths-of-despair-during-covid-19/. 11 Brooks et. al. 'The Psychological Impact of Quarantine'. 12 Nirmita Panchal, Rabah Kamal, Kendal Orgera, Cynthia Cox, Rchel Garfiled, Liz Hamel, Ciley Munana, and Priya Chidambaram, 'The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use' KFF. Kaiser Family Foundation, (2020) https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-s ubstance-use/. 13 'The Impact Of COVID-19 On Mental Health In England' The British Medical Association, (2020), https://www.bma.org.uk/ what-we-do/population-health/mental-health/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-mental-health-in-england. 14 Brooks et. al. 'The Psychological Impact of Quarantine'. 15 Alphonso Lingis, 'The New Fear of One Another' Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17, (2020), 471-472. 16 Kevin Sikali, 'The dangers of social distancing: How COVID‐19 can reshape our social experience' Wiley Public Health Emer gency Collection (2020). 17 Ibid. 18 Phillipa Roxby, 'Covid: What Is The Mental Health Cost To The Young?' BBC News (2020) https://www.bbc.com/news/ health-54449149. 19 'Impacts Of Lockdown On The Mental Health Of Children And Young People' Mental Health Foundation (2020) https://www. mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/impacts-lockdown-mental-health-children-and-young-people. 20 World Health Organization 'COVID-19 disrupting mental health services'. 21 Lola Kola, 'Global mental health and COVID-19' The Lancet Psychiatry (2020). 22 Ellen Townsend, 'COVID-19 policies in the UK and consequences for mental health' The Lancet Psychiatry (2020). 23 World Health Organization 'COVID-19 disrupting mental health services'. 24 Harvard School of Public Health, 'COVID-19 pandemic may cause long-term mental health issues' Harvard News, (2020), https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/covid-19-pandemic-may-cause-long-term-mental-health-is sues/. 25 Tessa M. Pollard, 'Changes in mental well-being, blood pressure and total cholesterol levels during workplace reor ganization: The impact of uncertainty', An International Journal of Work, Health & Organisations 15, 1, (2010), 14-28. 26 Syed Z. Iqbal, Benjamin Li, Edor Onigu-Otito, Mohammad Faraz Naqvi and Asim A. Shah, 'The Long-Term Mental Health Effects of COVID-19' Psychiatric Annals 12, 50 (2020), 522-525. 27 Elizabeth Parkin, 'Mental health policy in England', UK Parliament: House of Commons Library (2020), accessed December 2020, https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7547/. 28 Ibid. 29 NHS Confederation 'Mental health services and COVID-19: preparing for the rising tide', NHS Confederation, (2020), accessed 10 December 2020, https://www.nhsconfed.org/resources/2020/08/mental-health-services-and-covid19-preparingfor-the-rising-tide. 30 Parkin, 'Mental health policy in England'. 31 Frances McKee-Ryan, Zhaoli Song, Connie R. Wanberg, and Angelo J. Kinicki, 'Psychological and physical well-be ing during unemployment: a meta-analytic study' Journal of Applied Psychology 1, 90 (2005), 53-76. 32 David Blutstein, Sliha Kozan and Alice Connors-Kellgren, 'Unemployment and underemployment: A narrative analysis about loss' Journal of Vocational Behavior 82, 3 (2013), 256-265. 33 Matthew L., Goldman, Benjamin G. Druss, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Grayson S. Norquist, Kristin Kroeger Ptakowski, Amy Brinkley, Miranda Greiner et al. 'Mental Health Policy in the Era of COVID-19' Psychiatric Services (2020) 34 Ibid. 35 Australian Government Department of Health, 'COVID-19 National Health Plan – Supporting the mental health of Australians through the Coronavirus pandemic' Australian Government Department of Health (2020), accessed December 10, 2020. https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covid-19-national-health-plan-supporting-the-mental-healthof-ausralians-through-the-coronavirus-pandemic.

36 Ontario Newsroom, 'Ontario Increasing Mental Health Support During COVID-19' 2 April 2020, accessed 12 December 2020, https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/56547/ontario-increasing-mental-health-support-during-covid-19. 37 World Health Organization 'COVID-19 disrupting mental health services'. 38 Carmen Moreno, Til Wykes, Silvana Galderisi, Merete Nordentoft, Nicolas Crossley, Nev Jones, Mary Cannon et al. 'How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic' The Lancet Psychiatry (2020).

Why do the health inequalities in ethnic minority populations still exist?

by siobhan mCshane, ruPali laV, nadia dohadwala, enya khan, benJamin zuCkerman and Pedra rabiee

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Bridging the Economic Gap through Digital Literacy

by megan low and medina rahma Putri

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