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. 2021 Jun;99(2):467-502.
doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12508. Epub 2021 Mar 30.

Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?

May Ci VAN Schalkwyk  1 , Nason Maani  1   2 , Jonathan Cohen  3 , Martin McKee  1 , Mark Petticrew  1
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Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?

May Ci VAN Schalkwyk et al. Milbank Q. 2021 Jun.

Abstract

Policy Points Despite the pandemic's ongoing devastating impacts, it also offers the opportunity and lessons for building a better, fairer, and sustainable world. Transformational change will require new ways of working, challenging powerful individuals and industries who worsened the crisis, will act to exploit it for personal gain, and will work to ensure that the future aligns with their interests. A flourishing world needs strong and equitable structures and systems, including strengthened democratic, research, and educational institutions, supported by ideas and discourses that are free of opaque and conflicted influence and that challenge the status quo and inequitable distribution of power.

Keywords: COVID-19; climate crisis; commercial determinants of health; conflicts of interest; corporate welfare; critical pedagogy; democracy; disaster capitalism; global governance; health equity; ideologies; neoliberalism; planetary health; public health; social justice; surveillance capitalism.

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