Business School, Universidad Icesi & POLIS, Cali 760031, Colombia.
Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 9;19(24):16572. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416572.
The pandemic has affected people's lives and emotions in profound ways, which governments ignore at their peril. Among the often disregarded consequences of the pandemic, especially in developing countries, are its toll on subjective well-being and its implications for health policymaking. This paper uses a battery of surveys with over 1800 observations collected in 2019 and 2020, which inform on many aspects of subjective well-being before and during the pandemic in Cali, Colombia. The results show a dramatic and widespread reduction in life satisfaction in several dimensions of well-being beyond health, and not just among those directly affected by COVID-19. This analysis focuses on differences in well-being by gender and health status, providing information about gender variances and differences in subjective well-being between those who experienced and those who did not experience physical illness (including the COVID-19 infection) during the pandemic. This analysis aims at contributing to the body of research that studies the consequences of the pandemic for life satisfaction and well-being, in the context of a city experiencing profound social unrest during the pandemic.
这场大流行以深远的方式影响了人们的生活和情绪，如果各国政府忽视这一点，将付出惨痛的代价。大流行带来的后果常常被忽视，尤其是在发展中国家，其中包括其对主观幸福感的影响及其对卫生政策制定的影响。本文使用了 2019 年和 2020 年收集的超过 1800 次观察结果的一系列调查，这些调查提供了哥伦比亚卡利在大流行之前和期间幸福感的许多方面的信息。研究结果表明，幸福感的几个维度（不仅仅是那些直接受到 COVID-19 影响的人）的生活满意度大幅下降，而且范围广泛。本分析重点关注性别和健康状况对幸福感的差异，提供了关于性别差异和那些在大流行期间经历和未经历身体疾病（包括 COVID-19 感染）的人之间主观幸福感差异的信息。本分析旨在为研究大流行对生活满意度和幸福感的影响的研究提供帮助，该研究是在一个经历深刻社会动荡的城市背景下进行的。
