Engaging with communities to encourage adoption of a harm reduction approach to COVID-19

Since the emergence of the Omicron variant in Australia in late 2021 there have been over 5.47 million cases and 4993 deaths, disproportionately impacting on people with social and structural disadvantage. However there has been increasing reluctance by governments to intervene to reduce the impact...

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Autores principales: Hellard, Margaret, Motorniak, David, Tse, Wai Chung, Saich, Freya, Stoové, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Public Health Association of Australia. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10031063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36963122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100022
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Motorniak, David
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description Since the emergence of the Omicron variant in Australia in late 2021 there have been over 5.47 million cases and 4993 deaths, disproportionately impacting on people with social and structural disadvantage. However there has been increasing reluctance by governments to intervene to reduce the impact of COVID-19 transmission and its consequences. This commentary article provides a perspective on the support and guidance required to mitigate individuals and communities risk by using a harm reduction approach to highlight strategies that can reduce COVID-19 transmission and infection.
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spelling pubmed-100310632023-03-22 Engaging with communities to encourage adoption of a harm reduction approach to COVID-19 Hellard, Margaret Motorniak, David Tse, Wai Chung Saich, Freya Stoové, Mark Aust N Z J Public Health Commentaries Since the emergence of the Omicron variant in Australia in late 2021 there have been over 5.47 million cases and 4993 deaths, disproportionately impacting on people with social and structural disadvantage. However there has been increasing reluctance by governments to intervene to reduce the impact of COVID-19 transmission and its consequences. This commentary article provides a perspective on the support and guidance required to mitigate individuals and communities risk by using a harm reduction approach to highlight strategies that can reduce COVID-19 transmission and infection. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Public Health Association of Australia. 2023-04 2023-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10031063/ /pubmed/36963122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100022 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) 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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