Autor(es):
Garcia, Ana Cristina ; Beja, André ; Cupertino de Barros, Fernando Passos ; Delgado, António Pedro ; Ferrinho, Paulo
Data: 2022
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/148013
Origem: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Assunto(s): COVID‒19; health planning; health policy; pandemic; sustainable health; Q Science; RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine; Health Policy; Infectious Diseases; Epidemiology; SDG 1 - No Poverty; SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being; SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
Descrição
Funding Information: Not applicable. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlighted the growing attention to the adequacy of health planning models to sustainable development. A re-reading of the results of a round table debate on “sustainable planning”, which took place at the 5th National Congress of Tropical Medicine (Portugal, 2019) under a participant observation strategy, framed by the findings of a “synthesis of better evidence” literature review and cross–referenced with the reflections of different authors and experts about the momentum created by the COVID–19 pandemic, underlined the challenges to sustainable health planning that have emerged and are projected beyond the current pandemic context. Variable perceptions of the term “sustainable health development”, leading to the potential loss of their relevance in guiding the elaboration of policies and strategic plans, and the potential higher effectiveness of the participatory approaches of health planning in achieving sustainable health were highlighted in the debate and literature, in general and in public health emergency contexts. Those results gained new relevance during the current COVID–19 pandemic, bringing back to the forefront a reflection of the inadequate planning framework that has usually been used to understand and respond to global health challenges, despite the already existing experience, evidence and support instruments.
