Spain has the dubious honour of being the country with the highest number of covid-19 cases among healthcare workers. In Spain, at the time of writing, approximately 50,000 healthcare professionals […]
Global health
Beneficence and equity: how the covid-19 pandemic exposed our weaknesses in Italy
For years we have been teaching our students how proud they should be to become doctors in our country—Italy—where equity is a constitutive value, and where health is guaranteed by […]
A tale of two testing strategies in Italy for covid-19
The first patient believed to be infected with covid-19 through community transmission in Italy was diagnosed at a hospital in Codogno, a village near Milan in the Lombardy region on […]
Covid-19: We are not “all in it together”—less privileged in society are suffering the brunt of the damage
Just because the the UK’s prime minister Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales have had covid-19 doesn’t mean the disease strikes all people equally. As with previous disasters throughout […]
Understanding power relations is key to scaling change for healthy communities
Levelling three elements of power creates the preconditions to achieve scale for health interventions say Scott Berns and Sebabatso Manoeli. This article is part of our Building Healthy Communities collection. […]
The move to end the immigration surcharge for NHS workers is welcome, but it does not go far enough
The importance of universal access to healthcare could not be clearer than during a global pandemic—the health of any individual impacts the health of the whole population […]
Are intensive care triage protocols harming the disabled?
Much of the covid-19 pandemic messaging focuses on protecting those who are at high risk of catching coronavirus more easily, developing complications of the illness and dying, but efforts may […]
Prehabilitation may influence surgical morbidity and mortality during and after the covid-19 pandemic
Elective surgeries have been markedly reduced or even halted altogether in countries affected by the covid-19 pandemic, the scale of which is unprecedented in modern medicine. The pandemic will negatively […]
Young people reported deteriorating mental health before covid-19—we need to take their concerns seriously
Life has changed enormously in Europe over the past two decades. The pace of change has probably been faster than at any time in human history. Digitalization, urbanization, globalization and […]
Deaths from covid-19 could be the tip of the iceberg
The public health impact of choices made now will have implications long after the immediate crisis is over […]