Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Diseases and Human Well-Being

<p>The wide spread of COVID-19 has had significant and negative effects on human well-being but it has also had a negative impact on many important diseases. It has necessitated a major reorganisation of emergency care facilities to accommodate the additional workload anticipated with the rapid surge in critically ill patients with COVID-19. Previous reports have demonstrated a reduction in admissions for different conditions such as acute coronary syndrome or decreased use of coronary procedures in various countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic leading to an increase in out-of-hospital deaths and long-term complications of myocardial infarction and missed opportunities to offer secondary prevention treatment for patients with coronary heart disease.</p><p><br></p><p>In this context we do not know what impacts these events may have had on psychology and sexuality. In fact the global pandemic of COVID-19 has significantly impacted people's sexual desire and behaviours.</p><p><br></p><p>Besides these events the daily activities of many departments have been drastically reduced and limited to non?deferrable procedures and the entire organogram has been reorganised following a rigorous flowchart in order to limit the impact of the COVID?19 emergency on residents' learning curves.</p><p>In this Special Issue we further the knowledge on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global diseases and human well-being.</p>