The resilience of families to respond to corona's consequences by relying on their savings or available loans, to cope with increased spending and consumption due to increased treatment and pandemic prevention requirements. Families have also begun to use social media platforms to activate virtual social capital to overcome health problems caused by HIV infection.
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Social Resilience and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates
Aly A. Galaby (Alexandria University, Egypt), Amir Galaby (Schlumberger, UAE), and Nouran Salem (Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch004
Abstract
The current research addressed the topic of social resilience and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in both Egypt and the United Arab Emirates on a comparative basis. The research formulated a group of theatrical issues, put several goals and questions, and developed a methodological design based on combining the requirements of quantitative and qualitative research, starting with the re-analysis approach to results of literature, analyzing the available statistics and secondary data, as well as employing the participation observation tool for situations and events related to the pandemic. The research came out with several results, including the necessity to search for alternatives to create transformational resilience in preparation for future pandemics, building corporate social responsibility on the principle of humanity to achieve social justice for all, shedding light on social resilience in the family system in response to pandemics, and adding the trust variable to other variables of social resilience.