Dey Pooja, De Souza Leanne R
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
University College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Community Health Equity Res Policy. 2025 Jul;45(4):429-446. doi: 10.1177/2752535X241257561. Epub 2024 May 31.
Research about public health impacts of COVID-19 on post-secondary students is slowly beginning to emerge. This scoping review identified common public health challenges among post-secondary students in higher-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Five databases were searched to find relevant peer-reviewed literature up to March 2022. Results were categorized according to reported public health challenges and relevant socio-economic variables. After screening, 53 articles were reviewed. Most articles were from the USA (39/53). The seven main public health challenges identified were mental health (35/53), financial instability (25/53), physical health (13/53), food insecurity (12/53), social well-being (8/53), digital access (7/53), and housing or relocation (6/53). Students with low socioeconomic status experienced heightened public health challenges. This review offers insight and opportunities for the development of longitudinal tools to support social determinants of health in post-secondary populations in high-income countries and may offer insight into similar experiences for students in other settings.
关于新冠疫情对高等院校学生公共卫生影响的研究正逐渐开始出现。本范围综述确定了高收入国家高等院校学生在新冠疫情期间面临的常见公共卫生挑战。检索了五个数据库，以查找截至2022年3月的相关同行评审文献。结果根据报告的公共卫生挑战和相关社会经济变量进行分类。筛选后，对53篇文章进行了综述。大多数文章来自美国（39/53）。确定的七个主要公共卫生挑战是心理健康（35/53）、经济不稳定（25/53）、身体健康（13/53）、粮食不安全（12/53）、社会福祉（8/53）、数字接入（7/53）以及住房或搬迁（6/53）。社会经济地位较低的学生面临着更大的公共卫生挑战。本综述为开发纵向工具提供了见解和机会，以支持高收入国家高等院校学生群体的健康社会决定因素，也可能为其他环境中的学生类似经历提供见解。
