Beyond COVID-19: Challenges to Breaking the Silos of Health Care Provision

Abstract

Susan B Rifkin*

COVID-19 has highlighted the weaknesses in defining health mainly in terms of health service delivery. The silos health services, financial concerns for supporting these services and involving local people by training community health workers has not controlled the pandemic. To address health improvements for global populations, attention now must focus on health equity and community involvement in health choices. For this change to occur the silo of health services must be broken to address wider social determinants. The WHO definition of health must be put into action and the education of medical professionals must change to provide support the expanded understanding about how health needs can be addressed.