Antonio Hana, Mahendradhata Yodi
Independent Researcher, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jul 8;13:1554289. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1554289. eCollection 2025.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed profound weaknesses in global and national capacities for pandemic preparedness, emphasizing the urgent need for robust public health policies. This manuscript examines Indonesia's 2024 presidential election, where leading candidates largely neglected pandemic prevention and preparedness despite the enduring socio-economic and health impacts of COVID-19. This work highlights the critical need to embed pandemic preparedness into electoral platforms, national policies, and global health agendas. Kingdon's three streams framework (problem-policy-politics) illustrates how elections shape the prioritization of preparedness through shifts in political will. Therefore, public health advocates must strategically influence electoral agendas by forming unified policy proposals, developing tools like candidate scorecards, and mobilizing community education. Making pandemic preparedness a central electoral issue ensures readiness for future health crises and strengthens systemic resilience.
新冠疫情暴露了全球和国家在大流行防范能力方面的严重弱点，凸显了制定强有力公共卫生政策的迫切需求。本手稿审视了印度尼西亚2024年总统选举，尽管新冠疫情对社会经济和健康产生了持续影响，但主要候选人在很大程度上忽视了疫情预防和防范工作。这项工作强调了将大流行防范纳入选举平台、国家政策和全球卫生议程的迫切需要。金登的三源流框架（问题—政策—政治）说明了选举如何通过政治意愿的转变来塑造防范工作的优先次序。因此，公共卫生倡导者必须通过形成统一的政策提案、开发诸如候选人记分卡之类的工具以及动员社区教育等方式，从战略上影响选举议程。将大流行防范作为核心选举议题可确保对未来健康危机做好准备，并增强系统韧性。
