Lab of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2023;12:7764. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7764. Epub 2023 Jan 4.
Reflecting on the up-to-date global experience of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is of crucial importance in order to draw conclusions needed for the design of policies aiming the prevention of new epidemics and the effective protection, preparedness and response of any new emerging. Ongoing environmental destruction, excess mortality by COVID-19 and non-COVID diseases reflecting the dismantlement and commodification of both public health services and healthcare services, deep economic crisis, increasing and deepening social inequalities are the main characteristics raised by the pandemic. The causes of the causes of all these are the dominant rules of the capitalistic system, driven mainly by the unlimited greed for profit on the expenses of the majority of the society. The effectiveness of any proposed correction of this system is discussed and the need for another society responding to the needs of the population is argued.
反思 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行的最新全球经验至关重要，以便为旨在预防新疫情和有效保护、防范和应对任何新出现的疫情的政策设计得出必要的结论。正在发生的环境破坏、COVID-19 和非 COVID 疾病导致的超额死亡反映了公共卫生服务和医疗服务的解体和商品化、深刻的经济危机、日益加剧和深化的社会不平等是大流行带来的主要特征。所有这些的根源是资本主义制度的主导规则，主要是由以牺牲社会大多数人的利益为代价追求无限利润的贪婪所驱动。讨论了对该系统进行任何修正的有效性，并论证了需要建立一个满足人民需求的另一种社会。
