The Future Of Public Health After The Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various public health functions and essential services in different ways and magnitudes depending on the integrity and resiliency of the countries’ health systems.

Public Health Services during Pandemic

The COVID-19 outbreak has greatly challenged the health care system due to absence of adequate mechanism for information sharing, expanding public health measures, protecting health workers, achieving behavior change, ensuring continuity of essential health services, and establishing reliable supply chains. Other issues include-

• Scarcity of health facilities at all levels, and particularly primary healthcare,
• Incoherence in implementing health laws and policies,
• Weak administration and governance and poor status of implementation ....