Black Swan Pandemic and the Risk of Pilot Suicide

Frontiers in Public Health

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Alpo Vuorio¹  Robert Bor² 

[1] Mehiläinen Airport Health Care Centre, Vantaa and University of Helsinki;Centre for Aviation Psychology, Royal Free Hospital, United Kingdom

关键词: aviation;    pilot;    mental health;    suicide;    COVID-19;    unemployment;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.573006

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The medical risks to pilots, whether to their physical or mental health, are clearly theoreticallyraised during the COVID-19 pandemic for the reasons outlined in this paper, and access to medicaland psychological support should be improved in order to address pilot stress, distress and thepotential for increased pilot suicides as a direct result of economic effects of the pandemic.The links between pilot suicides and social change, such unemployed threats and financialrecession, have not been studied. Significant and sudden changes in society may increase suiciderisk and serious mental health problems may affect pilots equally. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks,for example, the risk of suicide by aircraft in the year following the attack was almost four times theaverage risk in the 5 years prior to the terrorist attack. This paper discusses the potential causes ofmental health problems to pilots resulting from COVID-19.

【 授权许可】

CC BY