eprintid: 10124163 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/12/41/63 datestamp: 2021-03-16 11:56:53 lastmod: 2021-12-08 23:55:05 status_changed: 2021-03-16 11:56:53 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Ihm, L creators_name: Zhang, H creators_name: van Vijfeijken, A creators_name: Waugh, MG title: Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health of university students ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C10 divisions: D17 divisions: FI5 keywords: Covid-19, coronavirus, health, pandemic, university students note: © 2021 The Authors. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, has resulted in millions of deaths and disruption to daily life across the globe. University students have been additionally affected by a sudden move to online learning, the closure of campuses and dramatic societal changes that have upended their experiences of higher education. Here we focus on the physical and mental health consequences of the pandemic for this population sector during 2020, and the interdependencies of these impacts. We survey the challenges for infection control on campuses and for monitoring the disease dynamics in student communities. Finally, we explore the psychological and mental health problems that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and evaluate the underlying factors that are most relevant to students. date: 2021-03-11 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3145 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1853372 doi: 10.1002/hpm.3145 lyricists_name: Waugh, Mark lyricists_id: MGWAU78 actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian actors_id: DKALI47 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: International Journal of Health Planning and Management event_location: England citation: Ihm, L; Zhang, H; van Vijfeijken, A; Waugh, MG; (2021) Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health of university students. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 10.1002/hpm.3145 <https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3145>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124163/1/Waugh_Impacts%20of%20the%20Covid-19%20pandemic%20on%20the%20health%20of%20university%20students_AOP.pdf