Covid-19 Positive Impact On Public Health

Covid-19 Positive Impact On Public Health

COVID-19 pandemic crisis has brought up uncommon interference to the world health and

development community. Its impacts are felt in both economic and health factors. Several

groups are giving their support in fighting the coronavirus disease.  The organizations are offering their hand of help to the healthcare providers, delivering social services as well as protecting the lives of people. This has become the world center of attention.

The pandemic short term effects are apparent and maybe for the worst. More ever, assessing its long-term effects is of great interest and hard to imagine—the primary question being on how it will reform health and development entities, and health care occupations.

Though the pandemic is deadly and inconveniencing, the crisis will impact the public health sector positively in several ways. First, the high demand and challenges facing supply chain logistics will prompt states to reassess their procurement logistics on critical health and sustenance related goods. This will require each country to support the manufacture of all medical supplies internally to curb the supply chain logistics challenges.

The need will lead to countries that had no ability in these areas to seek ways of developing it. For example, the demand for medical resources to help in the fight of the pandemic has been high with less supply; different countries have incorporated companies to repurpose dealing with the production of PPES and medical ventilators, among others. States that do not have companies that can manufacture these are relying on imports, which is hectic to them. It is high the countries to reassess their supply chain logistics, and there is a need for each country to develop production companies for medical resources to foster accessibility.

Second, the pandemic will lead to the investment of billions to research, developing vaccines, therapeutics, among other prevention measures. This is after discovering that containing an epidemic is economically costly than investing in preventions and research. The pandemic crisis has made the leaders realize that under-investment in public health threatens the security of the whole world’s health sector. For example, if after the coronavirus first case was reported in china countries would have begun the research on it and try getting vaccines before it spreads, the world would have used less money than it is now spending.

Third, the COVID-19 endemic will change the world health society’s affirmation and utilization of modern medical technologies.  Digital technologies have been of high relevance since the pandemic hit the world. This is because the health systems are overwhelmed in managing the aggressive infectious disease. Leaders are now going for the technologies that just a few months ago were not considered useful in most healthcare sectors. After the pandemic, countries will adopt as many digital technologies as many as possible to avoid the rush in case faced with anther pandemic. For example, the health sensors and apps, and robotics are some of the new technologies that have been incorporated in the medical field.  These and more others will be used even after the corona is contained.

Fourth, the pandemic will lead to many countries adopting the virtual consultation and administration of telemedicine. Healthcare providers, patients, are now using telemedicine to lower the exposure to COVID-19. This is an indication that the intervention can be used even after the pandemic to offer effective triaging care. For example, a sick patient can communicate with a doctor while in his or her clinic via videoconference with no need for the patient to travel. This is helpful for it to allow patient monitoring while at home.

Additionally, the pandemic will lead to a reassessment of world health planning to enhance a process of making it to be sustainable and importantly, stimulate investments in crisis readiness keenly observing how the investment fosters but does not displace, regular order, delivery of service.

The pandemic will accelerate the alteration of several policies that have been developing for years in world health. For example, multi-month distribution of antiretroviral therapies, task-shifting to let the highly specialized health workers deal more basic health cases, self-administration of some family planning methods, and dealing out of some recommended medicine over the counter. This will also need new governance principles that will reinforce primary care and ensure adequate health care services to all.