Avoiding the Banality of Evil in Times of COVID-19: Thinking Differently with a Biopsychosocial Perspective for Future Health and Social Policies Development.

Autor: Leonardi M; UOC Neurology, Public Health, Disability, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy.; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Lee H; Silla University, Busan, South Korea., van der Veen S; Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam UMC, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Maribo T; Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.; DEFACTUM, Central Denmark Region, Aarhus, Denmark., Cuenot M; School of public Health, École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP), Rennes, France., Simon L; MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany., Paltamaa J; JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland., Maart S; Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Tucker C; College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA USA., Besstrashnova Y; Albrecht Federal Scientific Centre of Rehabilitation of the Disabled, St. Petersburg, Russia., Shosmin A; Albrecht Federal Scientific Centre of Rehabilitation of the Disabled, St. Petersburg, Russia., Cid D; Centre for Innovations and Development in Healthcare (CIDEAS), Santiago del Chile, Chile., Almborg AH; National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden., Anttila H; Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland., Yamada S; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan., Frattura L; Strategical Directorate, Classification Area, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Trieste, Italy., Zavaroni C; Strategical Directorate, Classification Area, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano Isontina, Trieste, Italy., Zhuoying Q; Research Institute of Rehabilitation Information, China Rehabilitation Research Center/WHO-FIC CC China, Beijing, China., Martinuzzi A; Department of Conegliano-Pieve di Soligo, IRCCS E. Medea Scientific Institute, Conegliano, Italy., Martinuzzi M; King's College London, GKT School of Medical Education, London, UK., Magnani FG; UOC Neurology, Public Health, Disability, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Via Celoria 11, 20133 Milan, Italy., Snyman S; Centre for Community Technologies, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa., El Oumri AA; Mohammed VI University Hospital of Oujda, Faculty of Medicine of Oujda, Mohammed First University of Oujda, Oujda, Morocco., Sylvain N; Stand Together for Change (STC), Kigali, Rwanda., Layton N; Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria Australia., Sykes C; University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia., Saleeby PW; Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Social Work, Bradley University, Peoria, IL USA., Winkler AS; Center for Global Health, Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.; Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway., de Camargo OK; CanChild - Centre for Childhood Disability Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: SN comprehensive clinical medicine [SN Compr Clin Med] 2020; Vol. 2 (10), pp. 1758-1760. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 01.
DOI: 10.1007/s42399-020-00486-8
Abstrakt: The COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to re-think health policies and health systems approaches by the adoption of a biopsychosocial perspective, thus acting on environmental factors so as to increase facilitators and diminish barriers. Specifically, vulnerable people should not face discrimination because of their vulnerability in the allocation of care or life-sustaining treatments. Adoption of biopsychosocial model helps to identify key elements where to act to diminish effects of the pandemics. The pandemic showed us that barriers in health care organization affect mostly those that are vulnerable and can suffer discrimination not because of severity of diseases but just because of their vulnerability, be this age or disability and this can be avoided by biopsychosocial planning in health and social policies. It is possible to avoid the banality of evil, intended as lack of thinking on what we do when we do, by using the emergence of the emergency of COVID-19 as a Trojan horse to achieve some of the sustainable development goals such as universal health coverage and equity in access, thus acting on environmental factors is the key for global health improvement.
Competing Interests: Conflict of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
(© The Author(s) 2020.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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