We have seen the lack of preparedness to manage the emergency health crisis and almost locked everything other than Corona when it was out of control. It was almost same across the world and after the crisis we have to think more about the reformation of healthcare system. Global cases top 11 million already and COVID-19 causes more than half a million deaths worldwide. The elderly with comorbidity are more vulnerable. The healthcare system everywhere is focusing mainly on COVID-19 management. Unluckily many more patients mainly old cases with hypertension, cardiac problems, chronic obstructive lung diseases or cancers are not getting priority and deaths are acceptable in silence. The vulnerability is more in poor and low income countries where they can’t afford to provide all the necessary healthcare together during the Corona crisis. We saw lots of disparity in healthcare even within the country with regional variations.
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for leaders to redesign healthcare and make it more equitable for all. healthcare disparities are typically mitigated when there are equal lelvels of access to care.
Here is an interesting article discussing this:
https://csph.brighamandwomens.org/racial-disparities-mitigated-for-universally-insured-military-patients/
Good question. The pandemic has shown the faults in health care around the world. No country has escaped. Perhaps this will provide the impetus for clinicians, executives and governments to adopt systems engineering approaches to redesign the delivery of care. My belief is the biggest gains are to be made by improving the use of known technology by improving delivery methods. This is based on experience in health over 30 years and interest in applying computer simulation and mathematical modelling to healthcare delivery. Also attract people from outside health to apply their skills in this area. Consider attached files
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