The Social Isolation Triggered by COVID-19: Effects on Mental Health and Education in Mexico

Ana Karen Limon-Vazquez, Gabriel Guillen-Ruiz and Emma Virgina Herrera-Huerta

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Abstract: Public health in Mexico was on alert since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic of COVID-19. This disease represents a challenge not only for the health system but also for the education system, which implement emerging measures such as online education. In Mexico online education has several limitations associated with computer and internet access, which affect the academic achievement of the students. Additionally, the main measures against the pandemic are social isolation, but this measure can generate stress and affect the academic achievement and mental health of the population. The present review was based on Mexican scientific and journalistic sources, and a thesaurus system such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms to find original articles to social isolation, mental health, and academic achievement. The contribution of this chapter is to describe the effects that social isolation has caused on mental health and scholar challenges in the Mexican student population.

Keywords: social isolation; COVID-19; stress; online education; academic achievement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93886

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