Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.5294/aqui.2020.20.3.1Keywords:
Primary health care, advanced practice nursing, health systems, nursing workforce.Abstract
Lecciones que deja la pandemia por Covid-19
Lições que a pandemia da COVID-19 deixa
The narrow view and meager resources of health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean have not allowed dealing with the new SARS-CoV-2 pandemic adequately, with few honorable exceptions. The emphasis on curative systems, in terms of both infrastructure and human and financial resources, to the detriment of primary health care (PHC) is a blatant example of this historical shortsightedness. Besides the absence of sufficient, governance-skilled nurses, this circumstance reduces the possibility of controlling a pandemic that, while unknown, already had the necessary background for each country to tackle it using disease prevention and health promotion in vulnerable populations. Therefore, the depicted scenario has been conducive to the spread of the pandemic and the consequent impact on the health, social, economic, and political systems of Latin American countries.
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Sanhueza-Alvarado O. Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Aquichan. 2020;20(3):243-245. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5294/aqui.2020.20.3.1
Publicado: 07/09/2020
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