Background: Six percent of the Chilean population has a disability requiring assistance with daily-living-activities and 69% of these individuals (Cronbach alpha =0.84 and 0.87, respectively), respectively) and stability reliability respectively (Rev Méd Chile 2009; 137: 657-65).

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is challenging societies, governments and economies at an unprecedented scale. Policy responses to face the epidemic virus had varied greatly among countries, from massive testing, large scale lockdowns to more voluntary approaches for social distancing. The analysis of such policies has been framed mainly with the sole aim of reducing virus transmission (“Flatten the curve” strategies), such as suppression and mitigation approaches. In this article, we argue that the overarching goal of the policy response should not be reducing the viral spread but to ultimately reduce the negative impacts on health and wellbeing of the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires not only interventions to reduce virus transmission, but also policies aimed at increasing the capacity of the health system’s response (“Raising the line” strategies), mitigating the negative consequences of the epidemic and potential adverse effects of interventions to tackle the outbreak (Mitigation strategies) and increasing governmental capacities to respond to the crisis (Strengthening Governance strategies). We propose PoliMap, a comprehensive taxonomy addressing these four policy domains. We present an overview of potential policies in each domain and discuss cross-cutting dimensions of policy responses as the dynamic nature of policymaking, alignment of policy responses at different levels, types of policy instruments, coverage of interventions and gendered-impact of policies. This taxonomy could be used to systematically map, monitor and compare policy responses across countries and over time, in conjunction with morbidity, mortality and demographic data, used to obtain a broad view of the societal effects of COVID-19 pandemic.