Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19
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Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19. / Loewenson, Rene; Colvin, Christopher J.; Szabzon, Felipe; Das, Sayan; Khanna, Renu; Coelho, Vera Schattan P.; Gansane, Zakaria; Yao, Soungalo; Asibu, Wilson D.; Rome, Nyles; Nolan, Elizabeth.
In: Global Public Health, Vol. 16, No. 8-9, 02.09.2021, p. 1439-1453.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19
AU - Loewenson, Rene
AU - Colvin, Christopher J.
AU - Szabzon, Felipe
AU - Das, Sayan
AU - Khanna, Renu
AU - Coelho, Vera Schattan P.
AU - Gansane, Zakaria
AU - Yao, Soungalo
AU - Asibu, Wilson D.
AU - Rome, Nyles
AU - Nolan, Elizabeth
PY - 2021/9/2
Y1 - 2021/9/2
N2 - Responses to COVID-19 have included top-down, command-and-control measures, laissez-faire approaches, and bottom-up, community-driven solidarity and support, reflecting long-standing contradictions around how people and populations are imagined in public health—as a ‘problem’ to be managed, as ‘free agents’ who make their own choices, or as a potential ‘solution’ to be engaged and empowered for comprehensive public health. In this rapid review, we examine community-engaged responses that move beyond risk communication and instead meaningfully integrate communities into decision-making and multi-sectoral action on various dimensions of the response to COVID-19. Based on a rapid, global review of 42 case studies of diverse forms of substantive community engagement in response to COVID-19, this paper identifies promising models of effective community-engaged responses and highlights the factors enabling or disabling these responses. The paper reflects on the ways in which these community-engaged responses contribute to comprehensive approaches and address social determinants and rights, within dynamics of relational power and inequality, and how they are sometimes able to take advantage of the ruptures and uncertainties of a new pandemic to refashion some of these dynamics.
AB - Responses to COVID-19 have included top-down, command-and-control measures, laissez-faire approaches, and bottom-up, community-driven solidarity and support, reflecting long-standing contradictions around how people and populations are imagined in public health—as a ‘problem’ to be managed, as ‘free agents’ who make their own choices, or as a potential ‘solution’ to be engaged and empowered for comprehensive public health. In this rapid review, we examine community-engaged responses that move beyond risk communication and instead meaningfully integrate communities into decision-making and multi-sectoral action on various dimensions of the response to COVID-19. Based on a rapid, global review of 42 case studies of diverse forms of substantive community engagement in response to COVID-19, this paper identifies promising models of effective community-engaged responses and highlights the factors enabling or disabling these responses. The paper reflects on the ways in which these community-engaged responses contribute to comprehensive approaches and address social determinants and rights, within dynamics of relational power and inequality, and how they are sometimes able to take advantage of the ruptures and uncertainties of a new pandemic to refashion some of these dynamics.
U2 - 10.1080/17441692.2021.1900316
DO - 10.1080/17441692.2021.1900316
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33734007
VL - 16
SP - 1439
EP - 1453
JO - Global Public Health
JF - Global Public Health
SN - 1744-1692
IS - 8-9
ER -
ID: 305401643