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Remember research before #COVID19 - findings from our 3 year study on access to #abortion during #zika in Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia in press now W/ @socscimed
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Remember research before #COVID19 - findings from our 3 year study on access to #abortion during #zika in Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia in press now W/ @socscimed
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We found that whilst #zika spurred abortion demand amongst individual womxn and global debate on #reproductiverights - the heath emergency didn’t change national regulation or policy change for abortion access.
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This was on account of the narrow policy path dependency in #globalhealthsecurity focused on epidemiology which did not consider gendered needs or the broader social effects of epidemics, combined with deeply conservative context + recent political history
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The thing that makes me the most frustrated about #COVID19 (and has for many months) is the failure to learn lessons from previous outbreaks, particularly about the downstream effects of #pandemic response policy. A thread 1/
This morning @BBCr4today @TheCrick discussed disruption to non-covid #clinicaltrials ; also have seen depressing delays to #cancer detection and treatment ; and changes to routine SRH, maternity, NCD, mental health services.
This is well documented impact during #Ebola 2/
This is well documented impact during #Ebola 2/
[new thread] *Democracy, Capacity & Coercion in Pandemic Response—COVID 19 in Comparative Political Perspective* out today in @JHPPL where @Renu_Singh_ & I look at three big questions that #COVID19 is raising for comparative health politics and policy...
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/…
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/…
1. What does "capacity" to respond to pandemics mean? The highest scoring 30 countries on the #GlobalHealthSecurity Index have performed very differently--they turn out to have very *different* actual capacity to respond to COVID... This figure shows huge variation👇
Why??
Why??
1a.The #GHSInex and broader measures of "state capacity" align closely--so what are they actually measuring? A similar group of wealthy states in the global North are often judged to have similar capacity...
A thread of thoughts about why #COVID19 is so remarkable having studied #globalhealthsecurity and politics of health emergencies for several years - almost every element could and has been predicted #COVID #covid19UK (1/11) :
Academics have thought that a major outbreak would emerge in China, and this would be challenged by tensions over veracity of Chinese data (the memory of #SARS not easily forgotten) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… (2/11)
The declaration of #PHEIC by @WHO is always constrained by politics - this time, delay, and #PHEIC absolutely not about Chinese response (hello member state politics) - read @adamkams tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… or @MarkRTurner gh.bmj.com/content/4/2/e0… (3/11)
