Building back from the ground up: The vital role of communities
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Date
2020
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
Abstract
Globally the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised health systems and communities.
Governments in low- and middle-income
countries (LMICs) followed the approaches
adopted by the Global North and advocated
by international bodies such as the WHO,
and instituted varying degrees of nationwide
stay at home orders (lockdowns) from strict
restrictions (such as in South Africa, India
and Zimbabwe) to weakly enforced lockdown as in Brazil.1
Many have questioned
the appropriateness of these measures in
LMIC contexts2
where key preventive behaviours such as social distancing and frequent
hand washing are impossible to implement
in densely populated informal housing settlements.
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Keywords
Health policy, Health systems, COVID-19 pandemic, Role of communities, Lockdown restrictions
Citation
Kroon, M. et al. (2020). Building back from the ground up: The vital role of communities. BMJ Global Health, 5(10),e003928