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标题：What Is COVID-19 Teaching Us About Community Health Systems? A Reflection From a Rapid Community-Led Mutual Aid Response in Cape Town, South Africa
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作者：Manya van Ryneveld ; Eleanor Whyle ; Leanne Brady 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Health Policy and Management
电子版ISSN：2322-5939
出版年度：2022
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：5-8
DOI：10.34172/ijhpm.2020.167
语种：English
出版社：Kerman University of Medical Sciences
摘要：The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South Africa’s formal social safety net, with the country’s high levels of inequality, unemployment and poor public infrastructure combining to produce devastating consequences for a vast majority in the country living through lockdown. In Cape Town, a movement of self-organising, neighbourhood-level community action networks (CANs) has contributed significantly to the community-based response to COVID-19 and the ensuing epidemiological and social challenges it has wrought. This article describes and explains the organising principles that inform this community response, with the view to reflect on the possibilities and limits of such movements as they interface with the state and its top-down ways of working, often producing contradictions and complexities. This presents an opportunity for recognising and understanding the power of informal networks and collective action in community health systems in times of unprecedented crisis, and brings into focus the importance of finding ways to engage with the state and its formal health system response that do not jeopardise this potential.
关键词：enCommunity Health SystemsCollective Action, Mutual AidCOVID-19South Africa