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Striving for Health Equity: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Preparedness Planning

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604542

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health inequalites; social determinansts of health; COVID-19; ethics; pandemic preparedness

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  1. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01KX2021]

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Since the WHO's Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan in 1999, pandemic preparedness plans have been adapted with the goal to respond to outbreaks, identify risks, and outline interventions for containment. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, experts reflect on previous preparations and advocate for the inclusion of social and ethical factors in future pandemic planning.
Since the WHO's Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan in 1999, pandemic preparedness plans at the international and national level have been constantly adapted with the common goal to respond early to outbreaks, identify risks, and outline promising interventions for pandemic containment. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts have started to reflect on the extent to which previous preparations have been helpful as well as on the gaps in pandemic preparedness planning. In the present commentary, we advocate for the inclusion of social and ethical factors in future pandemic planning-factors that have been insufficiently considered so far, although social determinants of infection risk and infectious disease severity contribute to aggravated social inequalities in health.

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