Political economy of covid-19: extractive, regressive, competitive

Bump, Jesse B.; Baum, Fran; Sakornsin, Milin; Yates, Robert; Hofman, Karen

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“…However, obstructions to Yarrabah solutions caused by the top-down, blanket directive to “lock the door”, fragmented and rapidly changing government processes, poorly coordinated communication and resource allocation channels, and bottlenecks in hierarchical funding approval processes [ 19 , 20 ] demonstrated the need for governance reform towards greater resourcing and support for local decision making. Such reform is consistent with the hypothesis that health equity will not be achieved without dramatic redistribution of power and resources [ 22 ].…”

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Leading with local solutions to keep Yarrabah safe: a grounded theory study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation’s response to COVID-19

McCalman

Longbottom

Fagan

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BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Pandemics such as COVID-19 are a serious public health risk for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, yet primary healthcare systems are not well resourced to respond to such urgent events. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal government advisory group recommended a rapid, tailored Indigenous response to prevent predicted high morbidity and mortality rates. This paper examines the efforts of one ACCHO, which in the absence of dedicated funding, pivoted its operations in response to COVID-19. Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service (Gurriny) is the only primary healthcare service in the discrete Indigenous community of Yarrabah, Far North Queensland. Methods The research was conducted at the request of the Chief Executive Officer of Gurriny. Using grounded theory methods, thirteen Gurriny staff and five Yarrabah and government leaders and community members were interviewed, transcripts of these interviews and 59 documents were imported into NVIVO-12 and coded, and key concepts were compared, organised into higher order constructs, then structured into a theoretical framework. Results Gurriny responded to COVID-19 by leading with local solutions to keep Yarrabah safe. Four key strategies were implemented: managing the health service operations, realigning services, educating and supporting community, and working across agencies. These strategies were enabled or hindered by five conditions: the governance and leadership capacity of Gurriny, relying on the health taskforce, locking the door, “copping it”, and (not) having resources. A year after the first case was experienced in Australia and on the eve of vaccine rollout to Indigenous communities, there have been no COVID-19 cases in Yarrabah. Discussion The success of the locally led, holistic, comprehensive and culturally safe response of Gurriny suggests that such tailored place-based approaches to pandemics (and other health issues) are appropriate, but require dedicated resourcing. Key challenges were the fragmented and rapidly changing government processes, poorly coordinated communication and resource allocation channels, and bottlenecks in hierarchical funding approval processes. Conclusions The COVID-19 response in Yarrabah demonstrates the need for governance reform towards greater resourcing and support for local decision making by Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations.

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Leading with local solutions to keep Yarrabah safe: a grounded theory study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation’s response to COVID-19

McCalman

Longbottom

Fagan

et al. 2021

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…There has been an utter lack of empathy for the practiced cultural values and civilization norms. 3 Society is expected to evolve and progress for the betterment of mankind. It is believed that changes benefit the humans to better the society.…”

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Is the second wave of COVID-19 socially retrogressive? Social liaison is the need of hour

Govil

Tomar

Dhawan

2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Qual seria a necessidade da pesquisa pela vacina? Se o vírus não provocasse essas interferências na política, na economia, no sistema de saúde, é possível que nem emergisse ao discurso, e nem chegasse à existência (AJANA, 2021;BUMP et al, 2021). 1977).…”

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Research on COVID-19: A microcosm to discuss scientific work in Science Teaching

Sitko¹,

Maximino²

2021

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The present article uses the description of the "circulatory system" (sensu Latour) oftechno-science around COVID-19 - in particular regarding the development ofvaccines and scientific evidence on the treatment of symptoms - as a didacticproposition for Science Teaching, showing how current events can and should alsobe mobilized as substrate for the critical understanding of the Nature of Science inthe classroom. From the description of the various actors involved in the COVID-19event, we discuss how it is possible to articulate scientific knowledge and criticaldiscussions about the Nature of Science to mobilize scientific literacy - that is, themastery and internalization of a properly scientific way of looking at the natural andsocial worlds, while at the same time rejecting negationism and absolutism about asupposedly univocal and linear science. The COVID-19 event allows us tounderstand the role of supposedly "alien" actors to technosciences as part of thewhole "circulatory system", combining Latour's stance with feminist perspectives,such as Helen Longino's, on objectivity and inter-subjectivity, and how theseelements can be articulated to promote scientific literacy.

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Political economy of covid-19: extractive, regressive, competitive

Abstract: The political economy of covid-19 reflects longstanding patterns of resource extraction linked to racial discrimination, marginalisation, and colonialism, write Jesse Bump and colleagues

Cited by 41 publications

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Leading with local solutions to keep Yarrabah safe: a grounded theory study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation’s response to COVID-19

Leading with local solutions to keep Yarrabah safe: a grounded theory study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health organisation’s response to COVID-19

Is the second wave of COVID-19 socially retrogressive? Social liaison is the need of hour

Research on COVID-19: A microcosm to discuss scientific work in Science Teaching

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