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A Guide for Health Systems to Save Lives from “Deaths of Despair” and Improve Community Well-Being Institute for Healthcare Improvement & Wellbeing Trust, December 2020
This guide is a resource for health care systems to improve mental health and well-being in the communities they serve, focusing specifically on saving lives from deaths of despair as a result of the pandemic. The guide applies a population-based approach, centered on equity. The guide endeavors to provide a comprehensive framework in which multiple stakeholders (e.g., people from marginalized populations and communities and leaders in sectors such as health care, education, justice system, local government, employers) can identify themselves and their contributions. A specific emphasis is placed on the role of health care systems in impacting the care they deliver and leveraging all of their assets to improve the health of populations and communities.
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United Nations, November 2020
This UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery provides a framework for leveraging the power of science in support of a better socio-economic recovery and a more equitable, resilient and sustainable future. This framework provided a strategy and blueprint for a robust socio-economic recovery from the pandemic, focusing on key actions across five pillars: 1. health systems and services; 2. social protection and basic services; 3. economic response and recovery programs; 4. macroeconomic policies and multilateral collaboration; and 5. social cohesion and community resilience. These five pillars are further connected by an imperative to embed the dual objectives of gender equity and environmental sustainability into all recovery efforts.
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Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research and EuroHealthNet, December 2020
COVID-19 is a syndemic pandemic: it interacts with and exacerbates existing inequalities in chronic diseases and the social determinants of health. This infographic explains why we are not all in it together and provides insight into the latest research, and how it can be used to inform the policy, political, and social decisions needed in the coming months.
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