Avoiding the Banality of Evil in Times of COVID-19: Thinking Differently with a Biopsychosocial Perspective for Future H
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Avoiding the Banality of Evil in Times of COVID-19: Thinking Differently with a Biopsychosocial Perspective for Future Health and Social Policies Development Matilde Leonardi 1,2 & Haejung Lee 3 & Sabina van der Veen 4 & Thomas Maribo 5,6 & Marie Cuenot 7 & Liane Simon 8 & Jaana Paltamaa 9 & Soraya Maart 10 & Carole Tucker 11 & Yanina Besstrashnova 12 & Alexander Shosmin 12 & Daniel Cid 13 & Ann-Helene Almborg 14 & Heidi Anttila 15 & Shin Yamada 16 & Lucilla Frattura 17 & Carlo Zavaroni 17 & Qiu Zhuoying 18 & Andrea Martinuzzi 19 & Michela Martinuzzi 20 & Francesca Giulia Magnani 1 & Stefanus Snyman 21 & Ahmed Amine El Oumri 22 & Ndegeya Sylvain 23 & Natasha Layton 24 & Catherine Sykes 25 & Patricia Welch Saleeby 26 & Andrea Sylvia Winkler 27,28 & Olaf Kraus de Camargo 29 Accepted: 24 August 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic provides the opportunity to re-think health policies and health systems approaches by the adoption of a biopsychosocial perspective, thus acting on environmental factors so as to increase facilitators and diminish barriers. Specifically, vulnerable people should not face discrimination because of their vulnerability in the allocation of care or life-sustaining treatments. Adoption of biopsychosocial model helps to identify key elements where to act to diminish effects of the pandemics. The pandemic showed us that barriers in health care organization affect mostly those that are vulnerable and can suffer discrimination not because of severity of diseases but just because of their vulnerability, be this age or disability and this can be avoided by biopsychosocial planning in health and social policies. It is possible to avoid the banality of evil, intended as lack of thinking on what we do when we do, by using the emergence of the emergency of COVID-19 as a Trojan horse to achieve some of the sustainable development goals such as universal health coverage and equity in access, thus acting on environmental factors is the key for global health improvement. Keywords COVID-19 . SARS-CoV-2 . Disability . Public health . Health policies
“The term emergence indicates both the manifestation of something already existing, but not yet put in the foreground, but also the appearing of the unexpected, the uncalculated, the unknown, and the new” as the Italian philosopher Adriano Pessina writes “The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic of today” he continues “is an emergency that fulfils both meanings: for a long time, scientists predicted an epidemic, but this coronavirus is dramatically new and therefore difficult to contrast with past experiences. Each emergency establishes a reordering of values, choices, and decisions. Facing the This article is part of the Topical Collection on COVID-19 * Matilde Leonardi [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
emergency means putting aside a series of problems, unsolved issues, and looking ahead. Emergencies often unleash unexpected capacities, free ethical reserves, and give
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