Recovery, Renewal, Resilience

Including:

• Dissemination of information about resurgence on a transparent website
• Encourage private healthcare facilities to undertake free testing
• Use volunteers to distribute testing kits as widely as possible, considering their safety

This lesson was contributed by a Civil Defence expert in Iceland during project data collection.

Researchers have initiated the study "COVID-19 National Resilience Cohort" in Iceland. The nationwide project aims to gather information on the effects of Covid-19 on quality of life and on health and well-being. The study will:

• Aim to plan even better future responses to the effects of such events
• Be limited to all individuals who are 18 and older, residing in Iceland, with electronic/Bank IDs
• Require participates to answer a web-based questionnaire on: mental and physical health; exposure to COVID-19 related factors within the family; change in lifestyle; and social interactions
• Follow participants in subsequent study waves (one year later) and link to nationwide health registers
• Recruit study participants in April/May 2020 via social media awareness campaigns as well as invite participants of previous studies to join

The website for the study is: https://lidanicovid.is/

The aim of the survey can be to evaluate well-being and quality of life to assess the possible long-term impacts on health. Consider:

• An online survey on well-being completed now and repeated in a year's time
• Identification of any previous surveys conducted on wellbeing and comparison of the findings

The findings can inform policy development, project prioritisation, and evaluate health-based equality/inequality.