Abstract: Pandemics have existed from time immemorial but whenever they strike human society is always shaken by lack of a reliable model for coping with the scourge to prevent considerable loss of human life. COVID- 9 pandemic alone by 2022 resulted in roughly 7 million deaths globally, HIV and AIDS at its peak (2005-2012) killed 36 million people, 1968 flu pandemic killed 1 million people, 1956-1958 Asian flu killed 2 million, 1918 flu pandemic killed between 20-50 million people, 1910-1911 caused loss of life to 800 000 people and 1889-1990 flu pandemic killed 1 million people. Many empirically-based models have been developed for building community resilience and coping mechanisms against the various types of pandemics but as statistics on number of deaths indicate........
Key Word: Community resilience, socio-economic cosmology, indigenous knowledge system, socially constructed, pandemic and Integrative framework
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