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Front. Public Health, 18 April 2023
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1187990

Corrigendum: A novel approach to utilizing the essential public health functions in Ireland's health system recovery and reform

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  1. A novel approach to utilizing the essential public health functions in Ireland's health system recovery and reform

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\r\nTriona McNicholas Triona McNicholas1*Louise HendrickLouise Hendrick1Geraldine McDarbyGeraldine McDarby2Saqif MustafaSaqif Mustafa2Yu ZhangYu Zhang2Sohel SaikatSohel Saikat2Zsuzsanna JakabZsuzsanna Jakab2Tony HolohanTony Holohan1
  • 1Department of Health, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2The World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

A corrigendum on
A novel approach to utilizing the essential public health functions in Ireland's health system recovery and reform

by McNicholas, T., Hendrick, L., McDarby, G., Mustafa, S., Zhang, Y., Saikat, S., Jakab, Z., and Holohan, T. (2023). Front. Public Health 11:1074356. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1074356

In the published article, there was an error. A correction has been made to the Conclusion section.

The Conclusion previously stated:

“Building resilience into a reformed health system will be key in ensuring Ireland's ability to respond to future threats such as pandemics. Operationalization of the EPHFs can help ensure the health system is prepared to meet the next challenge affordably and sustainably. The findings of the review have been utilized to support high level advocacy for the shift toward public health required to build and ensure health system resilience against future threats. Work is currently underway to utilize the EPHFs to define the operational scope of public health in Ireland and to identify the scope and functions of a new national public health institute and will help inform ongoing implementation of public health reform. Given the current focus on strengthening public health capacities globally, the findings in Ireland have applicability and relevance to policy audiences and key decision makers within Ireland as well as more broadly to other WHO regions and member states for health systems recovery and building back better, fairer and more resilient health systems.”

The corrected section appears below:

“Building resilience into a reformed health system will be key in ensuring Ireland's ability to respond to future threats such as pandemics. Operationalization of the EPHFs can help ensure the health system is prepared to meet the next challenge affordably and sustainably. The findings of the review have been utilized to support high level advocacy for the shift toward public health required to build and ensure health system resilience against future threats. Given the current focus on strengthening public health capacities globally, the findings in Ireland have applicability and relevance to policy audiences and key decision makers within Ireland as well as more broadly to other WHO regions and member states for health systems recovery and building back better, fairer and more resilient health systems.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: public health, COVID-19, health system resilience, lessons learned, essential public health functions

Citation: McNicholas T, Hendrick L, McDarby G, Mustafa S, Zhang Y, Saikat S, Jakab Z and Holohan T (2023) Corrigendum: A novel approach to utilizing the essential public health functions in Ireland's health system recovery and reform. Front. Public Health 11:1187990. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1187990

Received: 16 March 2023; Accepted: 24 March 2023;
Published: 18 April 2023.

Edited and reviewed by: Georgi Iskrov, Plovdiv Medical University, Bulgaria

Copyright © 2023 McNicholas, Hendrick, McDarby, Mustafa, Zhang, Saikat, Jakab and Holohan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Triona McNicholas, trionamcnicholas@gmail.com

Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.