Cace Sorin, Fitzek Sebastian (Eds.): ICCV 2020 Social Report. Covid19 in Romania, Data, Analysis, Evolutions and Statistics, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, 2020, p.273

Abstract

In less than six months of laborious research, the Quality of Life Research Institute has managed to print a complex and interesting collective volume, with latest data, analysis, evolutions and statistics that focused on Romania in 2020. The shock of its massive spread and the unexpected rise of the Covid19 virus around the world have generated a number of fundamental questions and analysis for the entire world of scientific community. Through dedication to the subject, the Quality of Life Research Institute team retaliates via 6 chapters the quality of life evolution during the first months of the year, the social policies of health elaboration and social protection, the demographic changes and the standard of living for the Romanian citizens which has undergone sudden changes, unpredictable for any scientific forecast. The demeanour of the whole phenomenon and its evolutionary stages are abundantly reflected in the 6 studies elaborated in a structure determined by the broad preoccupations of the institute, but also by the reason of some reactions in fields such as health, economy, education, demography and social assistance. Numerous fastidious important aspects are missing today from the Romanian public debate. In this account, the volume offers a refined picture of a series of analysis, arguments and specialized statistics that scientifically substantiate the authors’ statements. From the very beginning, in the first chapter, the authors Cătălin Zamfir (Scientific Researcher 1 and Director of the Quality of Life Research Institute) and Elena Zamfir