COVID-19 Pandemic: Need of the Hour – A Course Correction, Restructuring & Review of our Policies – An Indian Perspective
, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Priya Rathi, A Shreenivasa- DOI
- 10.2991/jegh.k.201215.001How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic; health policies; lockdown; surveillance; India
- Abstract
The world stunned by a pandemic of such cataclysmic scale is reeling under the joint burden of health impact unleashed by the diseases and the strain on the economy. Glaring shortfalls and inconsistencies in strategies to combat the pandemic have surfaced worldwide irrespective of the country’s economic and health care status. The responses have vacillated from mute to drastic. Gaps in health preparedness coupled with administrative tardiness, lack of co-ordination and foresight has heightened the impact of pandemic. Coordinated holistic approach with structured policies in place is the need of the hour. Surveillance and epidemiological models to predict the unpredictable and preempt the backlash will dictate our future successes and failures in this protracted fight against the pandemic. This article attempts to review the present status of health policy on COVID in general and with specific reference to India and their outcome thus far. We also propose a simple and practical framework on which a decisive, well-knit, reliable and acceptable policy can be framed.
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TY - JOUR AU - K. Vishak Acharya AU - Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan AU - Priya Rathi AU - A Shreenivasa PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/21 TI - COVID-19 Pandemic: Need of the Hour – A Course Correction, Restructuring & Review of our Policies – An Indian Perspective JO - Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health SP - 150 EP - 154 VL - 11 IS - 2 SN - 2210-6014 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jegh.k.201215.001 DO - 10.2991/jegh.k.201215.001 ID - Acharya2020 ER -