What is Covid-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in Cape Town, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorvan Ryneveld, Manya
dc.contributor.authorWhyle, Eleanor
dc.contributor.authorBrady, Leanne
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T12:56:47Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T12:56:47Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South Africa’s formal social safety net, with the country’s high levels of inequality, unemployment and poor public infrastructure combining to produce devastating consequences for a vast majority in the country living through lockdown. In Cape Town, a movement of selforganising, neighbourhood-level community action networks (CANs) has contributed significantly to the communitybased response to COVID-19 and the ensuing epidemiological and social challenges it has wrought. This article describes and explains the organising principles that inform this community response, with the view to reflect on the possibilities and limits of such movements as they interface with the state and its top-down ways of working, often producing contradictions and complexities. This presents an opportunity for recognising and understanding the power of informal networks and collective action in community health systems in times of unprecedented crisis, and brings into focus the importance of finding ways to engage with the state and its formal health system response that do not jeopardise this potential.en_US
dc.identifier.citationvan Ryneveld, M. et al. (2022). What is Covid-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in Cape Town, South Africa. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(Special Issue), 5-8. 10.34172/IJHPM.2020.167en_US
dc.identifier.issn2322-5939
dc.identifier.uri10.34172/IJHPM.2020.167
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7865
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKerman University of Medical Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectCommunity health systemen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectMutual Aiden_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleWhat is Covid-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in Cape Town, South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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