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A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat

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Title: A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat
Authors: Lazarus, J.V., Romero, D., Kopka, C.J., Karim, S.A., Abu-Raddad, L.J., Almeida, G., Baptista-Leite, R., Barocas, J.A., Barreto, M.L., Bar-Yam, Y., Bassat, Q., Batista, C., Bazilian, M., Chiou, S.-T., Rio, C. del, Dore, G.J., Gao, G.F., Gostin, L.O., Hellard, M., Jimenez, J.L., Kang, G., Lee, N., Matičič, M., McKee, M., COVID-19 Consensus Statement Panel
Source: Lazarus, J.V., Romero, D., Kopka, C.J., Karim, S.A., Abu-Raddad, L.J., Almeida, G., Baptista-Leite, R., Barocas, J.A., Barreto, M.L., Bar-Yam, Y., Bassat, Q., Batista, C., Bazilian, M., Chiou, S.-T., Rio, C. del, Dore, G.J., Gao, G.F., Gostin, L.O., Hellard, M., Jimenez, J.L., Kang, G., Lee, N., Matičič, M., McKee, M. and The COVID-19 Consensus Statement Panel. 2022. A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat. Nature 611: 332–345.
Publisher Information: Springer
Publication Year: 2022
Collection: CGIAR CGSpace (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)
Subject Terms: covid-19, health
Description: Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governmental organization, government and other experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries and territories to recommend specific actions to end this persistent global threat to public health. The panel developed a set of 41 consensus statements and 57 recommendations to governments, health systems, industry and other key stakeholders across six domains: communication; health systems; vaccination; prevention; treatment and care; and inequities. In the wake of nearly three years of fragmented global and national responses, it is instructive to note that three of the highest-ranked recommendations call for the adoption of whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches, while maintaining proven prevention measures using a vaccines-plus approach that employs a range of public health and financial support measures to complement vaccination. Other recommendations with at least 99% combined agreement advise governments and other stakeholders to improve communication, rebuild public trust and engage communities in the management of pandemic responses. The findings of the study, which have been further endorsed by 184 organizations globally, include points of unanimous agreement, as well as six recommendations with >5% disagreement, that provide health and social policy actions to address inadequacies in the pandemic response and help to bring this public health threat to an end.
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
Relation: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125393
Availability: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125393
Rights: Open Access
Accession Number: edsbas.14BACDD8
Database: BASE
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