The resilience of the Spanish health system against the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: Helena.legido-quigley@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante 03690, Spain.
³ Teaching and Research Unit, Cruces University Hospital, Baracaldo, Vizcaya, Spain.
⁴ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
⁵ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Helena Legido-Quigley et al. Lancet Public Health. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;5(5):e251-e252.

doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30060-8. Epub 2020 Mar 18.

¹ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address: Helena.legido-quigley@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante 03690, Spain.
³ Teaching and Research Unit, Cruces University Hospital, Baracaldo, Vizcaya, Spain.
⁴ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
⁵ Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain; Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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COVID-19 puts societies to the test.
The Lancet Public Health. The Lancet Public Health. Lancet Public Health. 2020 May;5(5):e235. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30097-9. Lancet Public Health. 2020. PMID: 32380034 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in Madrid (Spain).
Trias-Llimós S, Bilal U. Trias-Llimós S, et al. J Public Health (Oxf). 2020 Aug 18;42(3):635-636. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa087. J Public Health (Oxf). 2020. PMID: 32542350 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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