Part of Juta’s freshly updated comprehensive catalogue of easy-access digital and print health publications is the new – and essential – “Pandemics and Health Care: Principles, Processes and Practice.” As the Covid-19 pandemic evolved, many critical issues arose impacting on teaching, learning, and healthcare delivery through the spectrum of primary to quaternary care, public health and the social determinants of health. And as the pandemic devastated the globe on many levels – health, wealth, and relationships all took a blow on both personal and economic frontiers – many people were left wondering… Could it have been prevented, or managed better?

Hindsight is always 20/20, but the lack of international protocols and processes caught so many – including more established and affluent – nations by surprise. While still recovering from the impact, it is our duty to look towards the horizon and be better prepared for the next healthcare catastrophe.

That is why this publication is now considered essential for all healthcare workers. Through the topics and skillsets covered in this book, from global health security to ethical issues, medico-legal necessities to the structure of the political structures which affect our research and reactions to such situations, we can be better prepared to not only respond to but prevent another disaster.

Chapters covered include ‘Health Research, Ethics and Pandemics: Challenges and Recommendations,’ co-authored by Glenda Gray. As the South African Medical Research Council president and CEO, Professor Gray was one of the most visible scientists in South African media coverage during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Amongst other noted co-authors on this title are Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism’s editor-in-chief and executive director Mia Malan on ‘The Role of the News Media in Pandemics,’ Maurice Mars, Emeritus Professor and HOD at TeleHealth at UKZN who covers ‘Ehealth in the era of pandemics,’ as well as Adjunct Professor Alex van den Heever of Wits University on ‘Corruption, Leadership, and the Corrosion of the Public Health System Capabilities in South Africa.’

Edited by discipline leaders, this book has brought together a total of 56 authors with expertise in medicine, healthcare, social sciences, health economics, ethics and the law to share their experiences and insights as we reposition ourselves in the years to follow.

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