Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings

Irrespective of how the COVID-19 pandemic evolves over time across the globe, our past experiences with comparable zoonotic diseases demonstrate the significance of having resilient primary healthcare systems to successfully respond to public health emergencies. However, literature corroborates that...

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Autores principales: Rinkoo, Arvind Vashishta, Songara, Dinesh, Sharma, Arnika, Patnaik, Biswa Ranjan, Singh, Rajesh Ranjan, Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32831577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00255-2
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author Rinkoo, Arvind Vashishta
Songara, Dinesh
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Patnaik, Biswa Ranjan
Singh, Rajesh Ranjan
Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar
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description Irrespective of how the COVID-19 pandemic evolves over time across the globe, our past experiences with comparable zoonotic diseases demonstrate the significance of having resilient primary healthcare systems to successfully respond to public health emergencies. However, literature corroborates that in low- and middle-income countries, the primary healthcare systems are plagued with significant energy insecurity and inadequate built environment. These gaps in reliable energy and responsive built environment in primary healthcare systems are exacerbated during disruptive public health emergencies such as COVID-19. In this letter, we discuss the way forward to address these gaps and the policy and practical implications thereof.
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spelling pubmed-74197252020-08-21 Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings Rinkoo, Arvind Vashishta Songara, Dinesh Sharma, Arnika Patnaik, Biswa Ranjan Singh, Rajesh Ranjan Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar Trop Med Health Letter to the Editor Irrespective of how the COVID-19 pandemic evolves over time across the globe, our past experiences with comparable zoonotic diseases demonstrate the significance of having resilient primary healthcare systems to successfully respond to public health emergencies. However, literature corroborates that in low- and middle-income countries, the primary healthcare systems are plagued with significant energy insecurity and inadequate built environment. These gaps in reliable energy and responsive built environment in primary healthcare systems are exacerbated during disruptive public health emergencies such as COVID-19. In this letter, we discuss the way forward to address these gaps and the policy and practical implications thereof. BioMed Central 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7419725/ /pubmed/32831577 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00255-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Singh, Rajesh Ranjan
Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar
Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings
title Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings
title_full Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings
title_fullStr Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings
title_full_unstemmed Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings
title_short Reliable energy and responsive built environment: the missing links in COVID-19 response in resource-limited settings
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topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32831577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-020-00255-2
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