The Turning Point
Reflections on a Pandemic
Published on 20. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-19-774968-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the early years of COVID-19, Americans witnessed the intersection of a global pandemic, an economic collapse, and civil unrest that galvanized the country and the world and ushered in an era of unprecedented disruption. Three years later, we can begin to reflect on the experience of the pandemic and ask ourselves how the lessons of that experience can inform a healthier present and future.
The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic examines the first years of COVID-19 through the lens of population health, revealing a critical turning point in our engagement with key public health issues. Through a series of short, provocative essays, the authors leverage their experience as prominent public health leaders to untangle the social, economic, environmental, and political forces at work in our response to the pandemic. Combining cutting-edge data with philosophical insights, these bold and revelatory essays encourage us to broaden and sharpen our vision of health and renegotiate policies that can allow health to flourish in extraordinary-and ordinary-times.
The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic examines the first years of COVID-19 through the lens of population health, revealing a critical turning point in our engagement with key public health issues. Through a series of short, provocative essays, the authors leverage their experience as prominent public health leaders to untangle the social, economic, environmental, and political forces at work in our response to the pandemic. Combining cutting-edge data with philosophical insights, these bold and revelatory essays encourage us to broaden and sharpen our vision of health and renegotiate policies that can allow health to flourish in extraordinary-and ordinary-times.
Reviews / Votes
The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic is a profound, comprehensive and thought-provoking analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects on our society. This fascinating book explores the intersection of public health, policy, and human behavior and offers a roadmap for building a healthier future. * Laura Magana, PhD, President & CEO Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) * Uniquely insightful and admirably-researched, The Turning Point offers a bold new approach to pandemic preparedness - one focused on overall health and well-being. * Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., New York Times bestselling Author of The Price We Pay * The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic is a timely expose of the COVID-19 pandemic and its broader impact through the lens of lessons learned that can inform future public health emergencies and responses. It is an important and valuable read for policy makers and preparedness planners who desire not to repeat our most recent mistakes. * Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director, American Public Health Association * The Turning Point offers frank and thought-provoking reflections on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic from two of the nation's most prominent public health thought leaders. Stein and Galea's roadmap on how to prevent and respond to future epidemics should foster community resilience, putting the 'public' back in 'public health'. Written in an approachable style that should appeal to everyone, its essays should be required reading for public health students, policymakers and health journalists. * Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, Harold Simon Distinguished Professor, University of California San Diego Department of Medicine and author of THE PERFECT PREDATOR: A SCIENTIST'S RACE TO SAVE HER HUSBAND FROM A DEADLY SUPERBUG *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-774968-5 (9780197749685)
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Persons
Michael D. Stein is Professor and Chair of Health Law, Policy and Management of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is primary care doctor and has been a leader in general medicine and substance use research and policy for decades. He is Executive Editor of Public Health Post, a popular website on matters of population health. He is the author of award-winning novels and works of non-fiction. He has been interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" and has been included in Best American Essays Notables.
Sandro Galea is Robert A Knox Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is a past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Society for Population Health Science, past chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Sandro Galea is Robert A Knox Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is a past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Society for Population Health Science, past chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Content
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface
Section 1. LESSONS
1. From Theory to Practice
2. Next Time, Testing First
3. The Irreplaceable Public Sector
4. Holding Our Breath
5. The Challenge of Addressing Multiple Crises
6. The Invisible Mental Health Burdens of a Pandemic
7. Pandemics and Prisons
8. The Necessity of Speaking with Care
9. Health Behavior
10. The Caring Infrastructure
11. Does Today Matter More Than Tomorrow?
12. Telling Different Stories with the Same Data
13. How Our Expectations Shape Our Perceptions of Reality
14. Can Contact Tracing Work Here?
15. Prescription Against Worry
Section 2. STORY
16. Political Decisions and Science
17. Should We Be More Upset By This?
18. The Responsibility of Experts
19. Defining Our Goalposts
20. The Limits of Our Science
21. The National Character
22. The Right to Bear News
23. The Story of COVID-19
24. Why Did We Close Schools?
25. The Limits of Our Tolerance
26. Mismanaging Messages
27. The Vaccination Glass Half Full
Section 3. ETHICS
28. Time for an Ethics Refresh?
29. Who Goes First?
30. What's Most Important?
31. Achieving Health Equity, Efficiently
32. The Long Shadow of Medical Racism
33. Health Inequities Beyond COVID-19
34. A Hard Weight
35. Mandating Vaccines
36. Leaving the World Behind
37. Digital Surveillance
38. Balancing Autonomy and Individual Responsibility
39. Profits and Profiteering
Section 4. EMOTIONS
40. Grief and Loss
41. Recognizing and Moving Beyond Our Collective Grief
42. Epistemic Humility During a Global Pandemic
43. The Selling of Vaccines
44. Will We Stop Being Afraid?
45. Hope Dies Last
46. Can We Forget?
47. The Centrality of Compassion
48. False Confidence
49. A Tale of Volition
50. Trust and COVID-19
Section 5. THE FUTURE
51. The New Us?
52. Who Decides?
53. Fixing Our Health System After COVID-19
54. HIV and COVID-19
55. Guns and the Unanticipated Consequences of COVID-19
56. Policies That Persist
57. The Invisible Work of Public Health
58. Will Better Public Health Funding Be Enough?
59. Chronic COVID
60. COVID-19 Collectivism
61. Can We Be Led?
62. COVID-19 and the Office
63. A COVID-19 Poverty Surprise
64. Is it Over Yet?
65. Now What?
Sources
Dedication
Preface
Section 1. LESSONS
1. From Theory to Practice
2. Next Time, Testing First
3. The Irreplaceable Public Sector
4. Holding Our Breath
5. The Challenge of Addressing Multiple Crises
6. The Invisible Mental Health Burdens of a Pandemic
7. Pandemics and Prisons
8. The Necessity of Speaking with Care
9. Health Behavior
10. The Caring Infrastructure
11. Does Today Matter More Than Tomorrow?
12. Telling Different Stories with the Same Data
13. How Our Expectations Shape Our Perceptions of Reality
14. Can Contact Tracing Work Here?
15. Prescription Against Worry
Section 2. STORY
16. Political Decisions and Science
17. Should We Be More Upset By This?
18. The Responsibility of Experts
19. Defining Our Goalposts
20. The Limits of Our Science
21. The National Character
22. The Right to Bear News
23. The Story of COVID-19
24. Why Did We Close Schools?
25. The Limits of Our Tolerance
26. Mismanaging Messages
27. The Vaccination Glass Half Full
Section 3. ETHICS
28. Time for an Ethics Refresh?
29. Who Goes First?
30. What's Most Important?
31. Achieving Health Equity, Efficiently
32. The Long Shadow of Medical Racism
33. Health Inequities Beyond COVID-19
34. A Hard Weight
35. Mandating Vaccines
36. Leaving the World Behind
37. Digital Surveillance
38. Balancing Autonomy and Individual Responsibility
39. Profits and Profiteering
Section 4. EMOTIONS
40. Grief and Loss
41. Recognizing and Moving Beyond Our Collective Grief
42. Epistemic Humility During a Global Pandemic
43. The Selling of Vaccines
44. Will We Stop Being Afraid?
45. Hope Dies Last
46. Can We Forget?
47. The Centrality of Compassion
48. False Confidence
49. A Tale of Volition
50. Trust and COVID-19
Section 5. THE FUTURE
51. The New Us?
52. Who Decides?
53. Fixing Our Health System After COVID-19
54. HIV and COVID-19
55. Guns and the Unanticipated Consequences of COVID-19
56. Policies That Persist
57. The Invisible Work of Public Health
58. Will Better Public Health Funding Be Enough?
59. Chronic COVID
60. COVID-19 Collectivism
61. Can We Be Led?
62. COVID-19 and the Office
63. A COVID-19 Poverty Surprise
64. Is it Over Yet?
65. Now What?
Sources