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Culturally and linguistically diverse voices and views in COVID-19 pandemic plans and policies

OBJECTIVE: This paper presents a rapid assessment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic plans and explores the representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in such plans. Four levels of pandemic plans were reviewed: regional, state, national and international....

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Autores principales: Ghafournia, Nafiseh, Massey, Peter D, Healey, Sunita J Rebecca, Ravindran, Bhavi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35546908
http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2022.13.2.915
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author Ghafournia, Nafiseh
Massey, Peter D
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Ravindran, Bhavi
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description OBJECTIVE: This paper presents a rapid assessment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic plans and explores the representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in such plans. Four levels of pandemic plans were reviewed: regional, state, national and international. METHODS: Discussions with representatives from four CALD communities informed the development of search and selection criteria for the COVID-19 plans, which were gathered and assessed using a CALD lens. Six COVID-19 pandemic plans that met the inclusion criteria were critically assessed. RESULTS: The reviewed plans did not report any CALD community voices, views or consultations with community groups in the development phase, nor did they acknowledge the diversity of CALD populations. A few plans noted the vulnerability of CALD communities, but none discussed the challenges CALD communities face in accessing health information or health services during the pandemic, or other structural barriers (social determinants of health). DISCUSSION: Our analysis revealed major gaps in all pandemic plans in terms of engaging with immigrant or CALD communities. Policies and plans that address and consider the complex needs and challenges of CALD communities are essential. Collaboration between public health services, multicultural services and policy-makers is vital for the inclusion of this higher-risk population.
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spelling pubmed-90626002022-05-10 Culturally and linguistically diverse voices and views in COVID-19 pandemic plans and policies Ghafournia, Nafiseh Massey, Peter D Healey, Sunita J Rebecca Ravindran, Bhavi Western Pac Surveill Response J Covid-19 OBJECTIVE: This paper presents a rapid assessment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic plans and explores the representation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in such plans. Four levels of pandemic plans were reviewed: regional, state, national and international. METHODS: Discussions with representatives from four CALD communities informed the development of search and selection criteria for the COVID-19 plans, which were gathered and assessed using a CALD lens. Six COVID-19 pandemic plans that met the inclusion criteria were critically assessed. RESULTS: The reviewed plans did not report any CALD community voices, views or consultations with community groups in the development phase, nor did they acknowledge the diversity of CALD populations. A few plans noted the vulnerability of CALD communities, but none discussed the challenges CALD communities face in accessing health information or health services during the pandemic, or other structural barriers (social determinants of health). DISCUSSION: Our analysis revealed major gaps in all pandemic plans in terms of engaging with immigrant or CALD communities. Policies and plans that address and consider the complex needs and challenges of CALD communities are essential. Collaboration between public health services, multicultural services and policy-makers is vital for the inclusion of this higher-risk population. World Health Organization 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9062600/ /pubmed/35546908 http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2022.13.2.915 Text en (c) 2022 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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title_short Culturally and linguistically diverse voices and views in COVID-19 pandemic plans and policies
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