About this Research Topic
In December 2019, novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP) cases were recorded in the city of Wuhan, in China, caused by infection with a new coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. The spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (COVID-19) has taken pandemic proportions affecting people´s daily routines within just a few weeks. At the beginning of 2021, the pandemic is still raging on posing dramatic challenges worldwide.
The dramatic and disruptive pandemic event brought unexpected changes to the health care systems and new challenges to public health, health monitoring, and health surveillance, namely in terms of data needs for resources management, clinical decision, and policymaking.
This Research Topic aims to focus on Public Health data, data deficits, data emergent problems, and data innovative solutions originated by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Special interest goes towards analysis and descriptions of situations where Public Health data was not available for political decision, where information systems run into ethical barriers, and new and innovative solutions had to be created to overcome data needs imposed by Covid-19 unexpected challenges occurred at local, regional, national, and international levels.
The topics should centre around applied studies related to policies and strategies concerning Public Health, Health Policy, and Health planning with specific focus on local, regional, and national approaches. Topics may include the following themes:
- Health planning
- Health determinants
- Health care system
- Health monitoring
- Health surveillance
- Governance
- Health assessment
- Environmental Health (climate change, air pollution, urban health)
- Health Programmes
- Health Policy; and
- Universal Health coverage.
These topics are welcome as well as qualitative, mixed, quantitative and applied, empirical and conceptual research approaches.
The dramatic and disruptive pandemic event brought unexpected changes to the health care systems and new challenges to public health, health monitoring, and health surveillance, namely in terms of data needs for resources management, clinical decision, and policymaking.
This Research Topic aims to focus on Public Health data, data deficits, data emergent problems, and data innovative solutions originated by the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Special interest goes towards analysis and descriptions of situations where Public Health data was not available for political decision, where information systems run into ethical barriers, and new and innovative solutions had to be created to overcome data needs imposed by Covid-19 unexpected challenges occurred at local, regional, national, and international levels.
The topics should centre around applied studies related to policies and strategies concerning Public Health, Health Policy, and Health planning with specific focus on local, regional, and national approaches. Topics may include the following themes:
- Health planning
- Health determinants
- Health care system
- Health monitoring
- Health surveillance
- Governance
- Health assessment
- Environmental Health (climate change, air pollution, urban health)
- Health Programmes
- Health Policy; and
- Universal Health coverage.
These topics are welcome as well as qualitative, mixed, quantitative and applied, empirical and conceptual research approaches.
Keywords: public health data, political decision, covid-19, health policy, health planning
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