Community Readiness for Local COVID-19 Management

Pozzo, Riccardo; Virgili, Vania

doi:10.3389/frma.2020.602200

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“…An individual’s energetic involvement in a community reflects their civic responsibility to society. [ 26 ] In light of this, in some instances, the law mandates specific forms of community service, such as military service and jury duty, for community members. In other instances, locals could donate their time and money to help improve their communities.…”

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Changing a Community: A Holistic View of the Fundamental Human Needs and Their Public Health Impacts

Adabanya,

Awosika,

Moon

et al. 2023

Cureus

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There are many approaches to changing a community to ensure it serves the people’s fundamental needs. For example, enabling equitable access to critical aspects of the community, such as quality healthcare, high-quality education, and job training, is vital for promoting community safety through enhancing tolerance and respect for diversity. However, creating a community that serves the fundamental needs of the people demands a substantive investment of effort. Understanding the nature of these efforts requires discussion of community engagement, examining community networks and their role in fostering cooperative action, enhancing public safety, and identifying the structures of involvement and pertinent routes for developing community land. Understanding such efforts entails knowing the issues related to gentrification and disbandment. These hands-on possibilities can help avert the possibility of people being pushed out of their community settings. These insights further shed light on how the family unit and larger community are able to create collective unity and foster each member’s responsibility in community service provision that promotes community integration. Examining how violence and other factors affect a community’s collective power is necessary to determine how a community can avoid such violence and encourage positive changes at the individual and family levels to promote community cooperation and safety. Essentially, changing a community can yield significant improvements in public health. Addressing factors such as access to nutritious food, healthcare, physical activity, and social amenities and fostering social cohesion through community engagement can collectively contribute to reducing the burden of chronic diseases and promoting overall well-being. This review provides insight into crucial issues that have long plagued the societal disconnect between the local community and the leadership, policymakers, or other authoritative institutions that govern them, thus affecting the implementation of strategic social and public health initiatives. We will also explore strategies to mitigate these potential pitfalls.

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Changing a Community: A Holistic View of the Fundamental Human Needs and Their Public Health Impacts

Adabanya,

Awosika,

Moon

et al. 2023

Cureus

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“…[1][2][3] In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, building 'community resilience' has become a watchword for improving pandemic preparedness and boosting the capacity of health systems. [4][5][6][7] But what does 'community resilience' mean and what might it look like on the ground? This article draws on a 2-year process of engaged reflection in a number of sites across rural Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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“…‘Community resilience’ has emerged as a central feature of disaster and emergency planning and recovery 1–3. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, building ‘community resilience’ has become a watchword for improving pandemic preparedness and boosting the capacity of health systems 4–7. But what does ‘community resilience’ mean and what might it look like on the ground?…”

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What is ‘community resilience’? Responding to COVID-19 in rural Zimbabwe

Bwerinofa¹,

Mahenehene²,

Manaka³

et al. 2022

BMJ Glob Health

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Based on real-time recording and reflection of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this article identifies the features of ‘community resilience’ across sites in rural Zimbabwe. The findings confirm the importance of local knowledge, social networks and communication, as highlighted in the literature. In addition, a number of other aspects are emphasised, including the importance of adaptable livelihoods, innovation and collective learning. Flexible adaptation was especially important for responding to lockdowns, as livelihoods had to be reconfigured in response to public health measures. Meanwhile, innovation and shared learning was vital for generating local treatment responses to the disease. In the Zimbabwe context, these adaptation and innovation capabilities emerge from a particular historical experience where resilience in the face of harsh economic conditions and in the absence of state support has been generated over years. This is often a more resigned coping than a positive, empowering, transformational form of resilience. While adaptation, innovation and shared learning capabilities proved useful during the pandemic, they are not evenly spread, and there is no singular ‘community’ around which resilience emerges. The article therefore argues against seeing ‘community resilience’ as the magic bullet for disaster preparedness and response in the context of pandemics. Instead, the highly differentiated local practices of adaptation, innovation and shared learning—across gender, age and wealth differences—should be seen as an important complement to public, state-led support in health emergencies and so are part of a wider, plural health system.

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Challenges, Opportunities, and Coping in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Jewish Communities around the World

Braun‐Lewensohn

2023

IJERPH

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Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, which lasted more than two years and included several waves, the present study focused on Jewish communities around the world, in order to understand the role of community during the pandemic. This study focused on the community mechanisms that helped community members to cope with the pandemic. To that end, between October 2021 and July 2022, in-person interviews were conducted with leaders and members of the following communities: Budapest, Hungary; Subotica, Serbia; Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Vilna, Lithuania; Buenos Aires, Rosario, Salta, and Ushuaia in Argentina; and Mexico City and Cancun in Mexico. Each interview lasted between 45 min and 1.5 h. All of the interviews were audio-recorded and transcripts of those recordings were prepared. Three major themes emerged from the interviews: challenges, coping, and opportunities. Most of these themes were common to the different communities around the world. The findings of this work are discussed in terms of the concept of sense of community and resiliency theories.

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Community Readiness for Local COVID-19 Management

Cited by 4 publications

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Changing a Community: A Holistic View of the Fundamental Human Needs and Their Public Health Impacts

Changing a Community: A Holistic View of the Fundamental Human Needs and Their Public Health Impacts

What is ‘community resilience’? Responding to COVID-19 in rural Zimbabwe

Challenges, Opportunities, and Coping in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Jewish Communities around the World

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