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Review: Broader health impacts of vertical responses to COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries
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The COVID-19 pandemic has undermined capacity and efforts to address other health needs that are just as pressing as the virus itself, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Pressure on governments to act on COVID-19 now to save ‘immediately identifiable lives’ rather than ‘statistical lives at risk’ has had and will continue to have harmful short- and long-term consequences for other areas of health.
This paper reviews the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs, where historic and ongoing under-investments heighten vulnerability to a multiplicity of health threats. We use the term ‘vertical response’ to describe decisions, measures and actions taken solely with the purpose of preventing and containing COVID-19, often without adequate consideration of ....

Neha Singh , Gillian Mckay , Gwendolen Eamer , Rachel Goodermote , Social Science , Humanitarian Action Platform , Tabitha Hrynick , Santiago Ripoll , Simone Carter , நேஹா சிங் , கில்லியன் மகே , சமூக அறிவியல் , மனிதாபிமானம் நடவடிக்கை நடைமேடை , ட்யாபித ரய்ஞிக்க் , சிமோன் கார்ட்டர் ,