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2020-11-19Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/8898
Assessing COVID-19 through the lens of health systems’ preparedness: time for a change
dc.contributor.authorEl Bcheraoui, Charbel
dc.contributor.authorWeishaar, Heide
dc.contributor.authorPozo-Martin, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorHanefeld, Johanna
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-09T08:22:16Z
dc.date.available2021-08-09T08:22:16Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-19none
dc.identifier.other0.1186/s12992-020-00645-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/8610
dc.description.abstractThe last months have left no-one in doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic is exerting enormous pressure on health systems around the world, bringing to light the sub-optimal resilience of even those classified as high-performing. This makes us re-think the extent to which we are using the appropriate metrics in evaluating health systems which, in the case of this pandemic, might have masked how unprepared some countries were. It also makes us reflect on the strength of our solidarity as a global community, as we observe that global health protection remains, as this pandemic shows, focused on protecting high income countries from public health threats originating in low and middle income countries. To change this course, and in times like this, all nations should come together under one umbrella to respond to the pandemic by sharing intellectual, human, and material resources. In order to work towards stronger and better prepared health systems, improved and resilience-relevant metrics are needed. Further, a new model of development assistance for health, one that is focused on stronger and more resilient health systems, should be the world’s top priority.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut
dc.rights(CC BY 3.0 DE) Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschlandger
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
dc.subjectCOVID-19eng
dc.subjectPandemiceng
dc.subjectHealth system strengtheningeng
dc.subjectResilienceeng
dc.subjectDevelopment assistance for healtheng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitnone
dc.titleAssessing COVID-19 through the lens of health systems’ preparedness: time for a changenone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:0257-176904/8610-9
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/8898
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.container-titleGlobalization and Healthnone
local.edoc.container-issn1744-8603none
local.edoc.pages5none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttps://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-020-00645-5none
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameSpringer Naturenone
local.edoc.container-volume2020none
local.edoc.container-issue16none
local.edoc.rki-departmentInstitutsleitungnone
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone

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