TY - JOUR
T1 - Safeguarding people living in vulnerable conditions in the COVID-19 era through universal health coverage and social protection
AU - Lancet Commission on COVID-19: Task Force on Humanitarian Relief, Social Protection and Vulnerable Groups
AU - Barron, Gabriela Cuevas
AU - Laryea-Adjei, George
AU - Vike-Freiberga, Vaira
AU - Abubakar, Ibrahim
AU - Dakkak, Henia
AU - Devakumar, Delanjathan
AU - Johnsson, Anders
AU - Karabey, Selma
AU - Labonté, Ronald
AU - Legido-Quigley, Helena
AU - Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter
AU - Olufadewa, Isaac Iyinoluwa
AU - Ray, Harold Calvin
AU - Redlener, Irwin
AU - Redlener, Karen
AU - Serageldin, Ismail
AU - Lima, Nisia Trindade
AU - Viana, Virgilio
AU - Zappone, Katherine
AU - Huynh, Uyen Kim
AU - Schlosberg, Nicole
AU - Sun, Hanlu
AU - Karadag, Ozge
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Earl Hamilton (The National Center for Faith Based Initiatives, FL, USA), Justin Koonin (UHC2030, Sydney, NSW, Australia), Michael Samson (Economic Policy Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa), Natalia Winder Rossi, Associate Director of Social Policy, and David Stewart (UNICEF, NY, USA), Akihito Watabe (UHC2030, Switzerland), and Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvao (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation–Fiocruz, Brazil) for their contributions to this publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The pandemic not only induced a public health crisis, but has led to severe economic, social, and educational crises. Across economies and societies, the distributional consequences of the pandemic have been uneven. Among groups living in vulnerable conditions, the pandemic substantially magnified the inequality gaps, with possible negative implications for these individuals' long-term physical, socioeconomic, and mental wellbeing. This Viewpoint proposes priority, programmatic, and policy recommendations that governments, resource partners, and relevant stakeholders should consider in formulating medium-term to long-term strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19, addressing the virus's impacts, and decreasing health inequalities. The world is at a never more crucial moment, requiring collaboration and cooperation from all sectors to mitigate the inequality gaps and improve people's health and wellbeing with universal health coverage and social protection, in addition to implementation of the health in all policies approach.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. The pandemic not only induced a public health crisis, but has led to severe economic, social, and educational crises. Across economies and societies, the distributional consequences of the pandemic have been uneven. Among groups living in vulnerable conditions, the pandemic substantially magnified the inequality gaps, with possible negative implications for these individuals' long-term physical, socioeconomic, and mental wellbeing. This Viewpoint proposes priority, programmatic, and policy recommendations that governments, resource partners, and relevant stakeholders should consider in formulating medium-term to long-term strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19, addressing the virus's impacts, and decreasing health inequalities. The world is at a never more crucial moment, requiring collaboration and cooperation from all sectors to mitigate the inequality gaps and improve people's health and wellbeing with universal health coverage and social protection, in addition to implementation of the health in all policies approach.
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U2 - 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00235-8
DO - 10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00235-8
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34906331
AN - SCOPUS:85121912162
SN - 2468-2667
VL - 7
SP - e86-e92
JO - The Lancet Public Health
JF - The Lancet Public Health
IS - 1
ER -
