On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis

Autor: Emanuele Vinci, Peter van den Hazel, Piedad Martin-Olmedo, Samantha Pegoraro, Alan Abelsohn, Catherine Bouland, Giovanni Leonardi, Mariagrazia Santamaria, Robert A Verheij, Fabrizio Bianchi, Paolo Bortolotti, Raymond Agius, Ferdinando Laghi, Ruth A. Etzel, Ariana Zeka, Francesco Romizi, Giuseppe Miserotti, Guido Giustetto, Ozden Gokdemir, Alice Serafini, Evelyn Segredo, Martie van Tongeren, Paolo Lauriola, Michel L. A. Dückers, Roberto Romizi
Přispěvatelé: Tranzo, Scientific center for care and wellbeing, Social Psychology
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
medicine.medical_specialty
Medicine (General)
Climate Change
Population
prevention strategies
environmental health
Context (language use)
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Global Health
global environmental health
Education
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
R5-920
Nursing
sentinel doctors for the environment
Pandemic
Health care
medicine
Global health
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Community Health Services
education
Health policy
community health
education.field_of_study
030505 public health
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Public health
Politics
public health
global climate change
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Généralités
health policy
primary health care
Socioeconomic Factors
Community health
Business
0305 other medical science
health systems
Analysis
Zdroj: BMJ Global Health, Vol 6, Iss 3 (2021)
BMJ Global Health, 6(3):e004111. BMJ Publishing Group
Lauriola, P, Martín-Olmedo, P, Leonardi, G S, Bouland, C, Verheij, R, Dückers, M L A, van Tongeren, M, Laghi, F, van den Hazel, P, Gokdemir, O, Segredo, E, Etzel, R A, Abelsohn, A, Bianchi, F, Romizi, R, Miserotti, G, Romizi, F, Bortolotti, P, Vinci, E, Giustetto, G, Santamaria, M, Serafini, A, Pegoraro, S, Agius, R & Zeka, A 2021, ' On the importance of primary and community healthcare in relation to global health and environmental threats : lessons from the COVID-19 crisis ', BMJ Global Health, vol. 6, no. 3, e004111 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004111
BMJ global health, 6 (3
BMJ Global Health, 6(3):e004111. BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
BMJ Global Health
ISSN: 2059-7908
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004111
Popis: In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that primary healthcare systems play a critical role in clinical care, such as patient screening, triage, physical and psychological support and also in promoting good community advice and awareness in coordination with secondary healthcare and preventive care. Because of the role of social and environmental factors in COVID-19 transmission and burden of disease, it is essential to ensure that there is adequate coordination of population-based health services and public health interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the primary and community healthcare (PCHC) system's weaknesses worldwide. In many instances, PCHC played only a minor role, the emphasis being on hospital and intensive care beds. This was compounded by political failures, in supporting local community resilience. Placing community building, social cohesion and resilience at the forefront of dealing with the COVID-19 crisis can help align solutions that provide a vision of a € planetary health'. This can be achieved by involving local well-being and participation in the face of any pervasive health and environmental crisis, including other epidemics and large-scale ecological crises. This paper proposes that PCHC should take on two critical roles: first, to support local problem-solving efforts and to serve as a partner in innovative approaches to safeguarding community well-being; and second, to understand the local environment and health risks in the context of the global health perspective. We see this as an opportunity of immediate value and broad consequence beyond the control of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SCOPUS: ar.j
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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