The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ethical Challenges Posed by Neoliberal Healthcare

Ahlbach, Christopher; King, T.; Dzeng, Elizabeth

doi:10.1007/s11606-020-06316-w

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“…This blame occurs more overtly among those on the political right than it does on the left; however, it is not absent from left voters who also often discussed questions of cultural essentialism as queries rather than objects of blame. Racism is present in social responses to the pandemic as well as healthcare systems that rely on the idea of privatized competitive markets and unequal healthcare systems [ 9 ].…”

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“…These findings contribute to the investigation of the role of political and economic power and difference in pandemics. They also inform research on mistrust of public health directives and the implementation of prevention and pandemic control as the pandemic exposes inequalities of a healthcare system that does not consider health and healthcare to be a human right [ 9 ].…”

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Who is to blame for COVID-19? Examining politicized fear and health behavior through a mixed methods study in the United States

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Background Political ideologies drove public actions and health behaviors in the first year of the global pandemic. Different ideas about contagion, health behaviors, and the actions of governing bodies impacted the spread of the virus and health and life. Researchers used an immediate, mixed methods design to explore sociocultural responses to the virus and identified differences and similarities in anxiety, fear, blame, and perceptions of nation across political divides. Methods Researchers conducted 60 in-depth, semi-structured interviews and administered over 1,000 questionnaires with people living in the United States. The team analyzed data through an exploratory and confirmatory sequential mixed methods design. Results In the first months of the pandemic interviewees cited economic inequality, untrustworthy corporations and other entities, and the federal government as threats to life and pandemic control. Participants invoked ideas about others to determine blame. Findings reveal heavy associations between lack of safety during a public health crisis and blame of “culture” and government power across the political spectrum. Conclusion Data indicate anxiety across political differences related to ideas of contagion and the maleficence of a powerful elite. Findings on how people understand the nation, politics, and pandemic management contribute to understanding dimensions of health behaviors and underlying connections between anxiety and the uptake of conspiracy theories in public health. The article ends with recommendations drawn from project findings for future pandemic response.

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“…Prior to 2020, healthcare workers were already experiencing troublingly high rates of burnout, depression, and suicide ( Hoffman 2020 ). This growing epidemic was fueled by the neoliberal reconfiguration of the global healthcare infrastructure which, in its focus on profits and efficiencies, had been dismantling public health systems, increasing global inequalities, and eroding working conditions for healthcare professionals for decades ( Navarro 2020 ; Albach, King, and Dzeng 2021 ). Health professionals are also often trained to compartmentalize their feelings—to not acknowledge emotions that patient care might trigger, to “tough it out” via long work hours and personal sacrifice.…”

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Building Caregiver Resiliency in Global Health: Embodying the Catholic Social Tradition in the Face of COVID-19

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For international healthcare NGOs, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been significant. Healthcare workers in both LMICs and high-income countries have described the impact of the pandemic as traumatic. This article focuses on one initiative designed to address this impact: CMMB’s Building Resiliency program. This article provides an overview of the structure and content of program, situating it within the landscape of global mental healthcare disparities and caregiver trauma. Designed to address caregiver mental health in Peru, Haiti, Kenya, South Sudan, and Zambia, the program sought to offset global mental healthcare disparities by bringing needed psycho-social-spiritual support to CMMB staff. It was intentionally shaped by the commitments of Catholic social thought—particularly to the well-being, dignity, and integral human development of CMMB staff members, to envisaging new forms of solidarity, and to prioritizing subsidiarity and participation. Theories of post-traumatic growth provided the theoretical framework for three remotely delivered seminar series, which made space for staff members to share their stories with their colleagues, to build community, to foster creativity and hope, and to intentionally integrate faith and spirituality into both personal self-care as well as the common life of the organization. Thus, this was designed equally to build the organizational resiliency that is the fruit of Catholic social thought. For attending to caregivers’ mental health and well-being is crucial not only for the success of medical missions but for embodying and witnessing the Catholic commitment to the human dignity and the integral development of those who do the work of our organizations.

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Mapping Reproductive Health Policy Using Arts-Based Research Methods: A Model of Pedagogical Transgression

Mejia

Balangoy²

2023

Sustainable Development Goals Series

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ethical Challenges Posed by Neoliberal Healthcare

Cited by 5 publications

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Who is to blame for COVID-19? Examining politicized fear and health behavior through a mixed methods study in the United States

Who is to blame for COVID-19? Examining politicized fear and health behavior through a mixed methods study in the United States

Building Caregiver Resiliency in Global Health: Embodying the Catholic Social Tradition in the Face of COVID-19

Mapping Reproductive Health Policy Using Arts-Based Research Methods: A Model of Pedagogical Transgression

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