COVID-19: our last teachable moment

COVID-19 is bringing hardship and tragedy.  Health workers are having to take appalling risks; loved ones are being lost; lockdown is causing great distress.  And, as always in testing times, the disadvantaged are being hit worst. As we emerge from the shadows, the call from the vested interests, fr...

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Autor principal: Hastings, Gerard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2020
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Opinion Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237165/
http://dx.doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13603.2
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description COVID-19 is bringing hardship and tragedy.  Health workers are having to take appalling risks; loved ones are being lost; lockdown is causing great distress.  And, as always in testing times, the disadvantaged are being hit worst. As we emerge from the shadows, the call from the vested interests, from the systems current winners, will be for a rapid return to business as usual. We must resist this; business as usual got us into this mess.  COVID-19 is trying to tell us something; we health educators and social marketers must listen, think and, above all, take action.
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spelling pubmed-72371652020-06-03 COVID-19: our last teachable moment Hastings, Gerard Emerald Open Research Opinion Article COVID-19 is bringing hardship and tragedy.  Health workers are having to take appalling risks; loved ones are being lost; lockdown is causing great distress.  And, as always in testing times, the disadvantaged are being hit worst. As we emerge from the shadows, the call from the vested interests, from the systems current winners, will be for a rapid return to business as usual. We must resist this; business as usual got us into this mess.  COVID-19 is trying to tell us something; we health educators and social marketers must listen, think and, above all, take action. F1000 Research Limited 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7237165/ http://dx.doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13603.2 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Hastings G http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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