Given the massive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals and the global economy, governments should urgently adjust their health systems to better respond to future shocks, according to a report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Significant investment in the health workforce is required, as is increasing spending on preventative and digital infrastructure.
According to the research, investing in Health System Resilience, even the world's most advanced health systems were not resilient to the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy in 75 percent of OECD countries, it added, declined by 2020. However, By April 2022, residents in long-term care facilities accounted for approximately 34% of all COVID-19 deaths. The report highlights three significant vulnerabilities: health-care systems were underprepared, understaffed, and underinvested. In 2019, 35 percent of the population in OECD countries had a long-term sickness or health issue. Chronic disease prevalence reduces population resilience and increases COVID-19 mortality. Notwithstanding this, the OECD health systems spend less than 3% of total health expenditure on prevention. According to the report, people are critical to making systems robust. The lack of sufficient healthcare staff had a greater impact on the quality of care during the first year of the epidemic than, say, the quantity of hospital beds. Lower mortality rates were connected with more staff in health and social care.
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