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Policy responses to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka and the consideration of Indigenous Peoples()

COVID-19 has had uneven impacts on health and well-being, with Indigenous communities in the Global South facing some of the highest risks. Focusing on the experience of Sri Lanka, this study identifies key policy responses to COVID-19, documents how they evolved over two years of the pandemic, and...

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Autores principales: Galappaththi, Eranga K., Perera, Chrishma D., Dharmasiri, Indunil P., Ford, James D., Kodithuwakku, Sarath S., Chicmana-Zapata, Victoria, Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol, Pickering, Kerrie, van Bavel, Bianca, Hyams, Keith, Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid, Akugre, Francis Awaafo, Nkalubo, Jonathan, Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha, Mensah, Adelina, Hangula, Martha M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36949900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.008
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author Galappaththi, Eranga K.
Perera, Chrishma D.
Dharmasiri, Indunil P.
Ford, James D.
Kodithuwakku, Sarath S.
Chicmana-Zapata, Victoria
Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol
Pickering, Kerrie
van Bavel, Bianca
Hyams, Keith
Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid
Akugre, Francis Awaafo
Nkalubo, Jonathan
Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha
Mensah, Adelina
Hangula, Martha M.
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Perera, Chrishma D.
Dharmasiri, Indunil P.
Ford, James D.
Kodithuwakku, Sarath S.
Chicmana-Zapata, Victoria
Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol
Pickering, Kerrie
van Bavel, Bianca
Hyams, Keith
Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid
Akugre, Francis Awaafo
Nkalubo, Jonathan
Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha
Mensah, Adelina
Hangula, Martha M.
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description COVID-19 has had uneven impacts on health and well-being, with Indigenous communities in the Global South facing some of the highest risks. Focusing on the experience of Sri Lanka, this study identifies key policy responses to COVID-19, documents how they evolved over two years of the pandemic, and examines if and how government responses have addressed issues pertaining to Indigenous Peoples. Drawing upon an analysis of policy documents (n = 110) and interviews with policymakers (n = 20), we characterize seven key policy responses implemented by the Sri Lankan government: i) testing for and identifying COVID-19; ii) quarantine procedures; iii) provisional clinical treatments; iv) handling other diseases during COVID-19; v) movement; vi) guidelines to be adhered to by the general public; and vii) health and vaccination. The nature of these responses changed as the pandemic progressed. There is no evidence that policy development or implementation incorporated the voices and needs of Indigenous Peoples.
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spelling pubmed-100110332023-03-14 Policy responses to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka and the consideration of Indigenous Peoples() Galappaththi, Eranga K. Perera, Chrishma D. Dharmasiri, Indunil P. Ford, James D. Kodithuwakku, Sarath S. Chicmana-Zapata, Victoria Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol Pickering, Kerrie van Bavel, Bianca Hyams, Keith Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid Akugre, Francis Awaafo Nkalubo, Jonathan Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha Mensah, Adelina Hangula, Martha M. Environ Sci Policy Article COVID-19 has had uneven impacts on health and well-being, with Indigenous communities in the Global South facing some of the highest risks. Focusing on the experience of Sri Lanka, this study identifies key policy responses to COVID-19, documents how they evolved over two years of the pandemic, and examines if and how government responses have addressed issues pertaining to Indigenous Peoples. Drawing upon an analysis of policy documents (n = 110) and interviews with policymakers (n = 20), we characterize seven key policy responses implemented by the Sri Lankan government: i) testing for and identifying COVID-19; ii) quarantine procedures; iii) provisional clinical treatments; iv) handling other diseases during COVID-19; v) movement; vi) guidelines to be adhered to by the general public; and vii) health and vaccination. The nature of these responses changed as the pandemic progressed. There is no evidence that policy development or implementation incorporated the voices and needs of Indigenous Peoples. Elsevier 2023-06 2023-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10011033/ /pubmed/36949900 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.008 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Galappaththi, Eranga K.
Perera, Chrishma D.
Dharmasiri, Indunil P.
Ford, James D.
Kodithuwakku, Sarath S.
Chicmana-Zapata, Victoria
Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol
Pickering, Kerrie
van Bavel, Bianca
Hyams, Keith
Arotoma-Rojas, Ingrid
Akugre, Francis Awaafo
Nkalubo, Jonathan
Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha
Mensah, Adelina
Hangula, Martha M.
Policy responses to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka and the consideration of Indigenous Peoples()
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title_full_unstemmed Policy responses to COVID-19 in Sri Lanka and the consideration of Indigenous Peoples()
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36949900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.008
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