Community participation is crucial in a pandemic

Communities clearly want to help: in the UK, about 1 million people volunteered to help the pandemic response1 and highly localised mutual aid groups have sprung up all over the world with citizens helping one another with simple tasks such as checking on wellbeing during lockdowns.2 Global health g...

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Published in:The Lancet 2020-05, Vol.395 (10238), p.1676-1678
Main Authors: Marston, Cicely, Renedo, Alicia, Miles, Sam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Citizen participation
Community involvement
Community Participation
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Global health
Health care
Health promotion
Humans
Medical personnel
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
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Summary:Communities clearly want to help: in the UK, about 1 million people volunteered to help the pandemic response1 and highly localised mutual aid groups have sprung up all over the world with citizens helping one another with simple tasks such as checking on wellbeing during lockdowns.2 Global health guidelines already emphasise the importance of community participation.3,4 Incorporating insights and ideas from diverse communities is central for the coproduction of health, whereby health professionals work together with communities to plan, research, deliver, and evaluate the best possible health promotion and health-care services.5 Pandemic responses, by contrast, have largely involved governments telling communities what to do, seemingly with minimal community input. [...]those of us working to address COVID-19 in the health and social care sectors and beyond should look to existing community groups and networks to build coproduction. [...]policy makers working on the COVID-19 response should ensure citizens understand that their voices are being heard.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31054-0