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Year: 2022

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Type: Article

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Title: A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat

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Author: Lazarus, Jeffrey V
Author: Romero, Diana
Author: Kopka, Christopher J
Author: Karim, Salim Abdool
Author: Abu-Raddad, Laith J
Author: Almeida, Gisele
Author: Baptista-Leite, Ricardo
Author: Barocas, Joshua A
Author: Barreto, Mauricio L
Author: Bar-Yam, Yaneer
Author: Bassat, Quique
Author: Batista, Carolina
Author: Bazilian, Morgan
Author: Chiou, Shu-Ti
Author: Del Rio, Carlos
Author: Dore, Gregory J
Author: Gao, George F
Author: Gostin, Lawrence O
Author: Hellard, Margaret
Author: Jimenez, Jose L
Author: Kang, Gagandeep
Author: Lee, Nancy
Author: Matičič, Mojca
Author: McKee, Martin
Author: Nsanzimana, Sabin
Author: Oliu-Barton, Miquel
Author: Pradelski, Bary
Author: Pyzik, Oksana
Author: Rabin, Kenneth
Author: Raina, Sunil
Author: Rashid, Sabina Faiz
Author: Rathe, Magdalena
Author: Saenz, Rocio
Author: Singh, Sudhvir
Author: Trock-Hempler, Malene
Author: Villapol, Sonia
Author: Yap, Peiling
Author: Binagwaho, Agnes
Author: Kamarulzaman, Adeeba
Author: El-Mohandes, Ayman & The COVID-19 Consensus Statement Panel
Author: Nikolova, Dafina

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Abstract: Despite notable scientific and medical advances, broader political, socioeconomic and behavioural factors continue to undercut the response to the COVID-19 pandemic^1,2. Here we convened, as part of this Delphi study, a diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 academic, health, non-governmental organization, government and other experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries and territories to recommend specific actions to end this persistent global threat to public health. The panel developed a set of 41 consensus statements and 57 recommendations to governments, health systems, industry and other key stakeholders across six domains: communication; health systems; vaccination; prevention; treatment and care; and inequities. In the wake of nearly three years of fragmented global and national responses, it is instructive to note that three of the highest-ranked recommendations call for the adoption of whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches¹, while maintaining proven prevention measures using a vaccines-plus approach² that employs a range of public health and financial support measures to complement vaccination. Other recommendations with at least 99% combined agreement advise governments and other stakeholders to improve communication, rebuild public trust and engage communities³ in the management of pandemic responses. The findings of the study, which have been further endorsed by 184 organizations globally, include points of unanimous agreement, as well as six recommendations with >5% disagreement, that provide health and social policy actions to address inadequacies in the pandemic response and help to bring this public health threat to an end.

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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Relation: Nature

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Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/24383
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/24383
Identifier: 10.1038/s41586-022-05398-2
Identifier: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2.pdf
Identifier: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2
Identifier: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2.pdf
Identifier: 611
Identifier: 7935

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