Description | Parliament at the Mexican Congress, Mexico City, Mexico (G C Barron BA); UNICEF, Kathmandu, Nepal (G Laryea-Adjei PhD); Riga, Latvia (Prof V Vike-Freiberga PhD); Institute for Global Health, UCL, London, UK (Prof I Abubakar PhD, D Devakumar PhD); Policy and Liaison Unit/Humanitarian Office, UNFPA, New York, NY, USA (H Dakkak MD); Malmo, Sweden (A Johnsson MSc); Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey (Prof S Karabey MD); School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada (Prof R Labonté PhD); Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore (H Legido-Quigley PhD); School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (Prof P Lloyd-Sherlock); Slum and Rural Health Initiative, Ibadan, Nigeria (I I Olufadewa MBBS); The National Center For Faith Based Initiative, Palm Beach, FL, USA (H C Ray JD); Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative, New York, NY, USA (Prof I Redlener MD); Children’s Health Fund, New York, NY, USA (K Redlener MS); Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (I Serageldin PhD); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (N T Lima PhD); Foundation for Amazon Sustainability (FAS), Manaus, Brazil (U K Huynh PhD, N Schlosberg BS, H Sun MA); Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (O Karadag PhD) (Prof V Viana PhD); New York, NY, USA (K Zappone PhD); UNICEF, New York, NY, USA. | pt_BR |
Abstract | 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. | pt_BR |