Can COVID-19 innovations and systems help low- and middle-income countries to re-imagine healthcare delivery?

Senjuti Saha; Madhukar Pai

doi:10.1016/j.medj.2021.02.008

Can COVID-19 innovations and systems help low- and middle-income countries to re-imagine healthcare delivery?

Med. 2021 Apr 9;2(4):369-373. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2021.02.008. Epub 2021 Mar 3.

Authors

Senjuti Saha¹, Madhukar Pai²

Affiliations

¹ Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Abstract

Several low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have responded to COVID-19 much better than expected-despite little help from high-income nations. LMICs can learn from the COVID-19 experience and re-imagine healthcare delivery. Using Bangladesh and India as examples, we explain how COVID-19 investments and systems can be leveraged to fight endemic infectious diseases.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care
Developing Countries
Humans
Income
Poverty