Surveillance and Evaluation of Global Health Emergencies - Lessons from the Social Sciences Perspective
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Description
This book is a chronological story of global health emergencies (COVID-19, Ebola, HIV) lived by the author drawing from a series of publications over more than twenty years of public and global health in the world. The compilation shows how the lens of social sciences plays a stronger role in the responses to epidemics and pandemics. Recently, in Switzerland two publications related to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrate how attention was needed for its aged population, a more vulnerable group in the society, and how public health was challenged during the fifth wave during a national referendum. In France, with an external independent review mandated by the Government we used the social sciences lens to see how an early evaluation was challenged in relation to the design, implementation and evaluation of the measures carried out in the country.