Viva Salud, Brussels, Belgium.
People's Health Movement, Brussels, Belgium.
Int J Health Serv. 2020 Jul;50(3):276-277. doi: 10.1177/0020731420916725. Epub 2020 Mar 18.
The corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak has spread from China to over a hundred countries in less than 2 months. Now is the time to take stock and to assess the responses of different countries to the outbreak so far. What we can learn from the global Corona pandemic so far is that strong public health systems have the resilience to address massive health threats with the collective responses they require. Privatization of health services and individualization of risks might further undermine our ability to address this and future global pandemics.
新冠病毒(COVID-19)疫情在不到 2 个月的时间内从中国蔓延至 100 多个国家。现在是时候对各国迄今对疫情的应对措施进行评估和总结了。从目前的全球新冠疫情中我们可以得到的教训是,强有力的公共卫生体系具有应对大规模卫生威胁的弹性,能够采取必要的集体应对措施。卫生服务的私有化和风险的个体化可能会进一步削弱我们应对这一疫情和未来全球大流行的能力。