Social and Policy Determinants of COVID-19

Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip; Viroj Wiwanitkit

doi:10.3961/jpmph.22.170

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Correspondence: Letter to the Editor Social and Policy Determinants of COVID-19: Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip¹, Viroj Wiwanitkit²; Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health 2022;55(3):307-307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.22.170
Published online: May 31, 2022

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¹Private Academic Consultant, Bangkok, Thailand

²Dr DY Patil University, Pune, India

Corresponding author: Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip, Private Academic Consultant, Bangkok 103300, Thailand, E-mail: rujittika@gmail.com

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See the letter "Social and Policy Determinants of COVID-19 Infection Across 23 Countries: An Ecological Study" on page 144.

Dear Editor,

We would like to share some ideas related to the recently published article, “Social and Policy Determinants of COVID-19 Infection Across 23 Countries: An Ecological Study” [1]. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission can be influenced by social and policy determinants, such as integrated health systems and policy responses to COVID-19, according to Kim et al. [1]. When responding to COVID-19, a variety of socioeconomic and policy issues should be taken into account [1]. We agree that any disease can be impacted by local socioeconomic and policy factors. Regarding the present study, it should further recognize the changing situation of COVID-19. The pandemic has rapidly changed, and the changes in local policies against COVID-19 in different periods of the outbreak might have been different. For example, a setting might primarily rely on an inactivated vaccine, but local policies would change when there is a new emerging variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [2]. If possible, an additional analysis of different policy changes in response to the changing outbreak situation should be performed.

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1. Kim K, Jeung YD, Choi J, Park SK. Social and policy determinants of COVID-19 infection across 23 countries: an ecological study. J Prev Med Public Health 2022;55(2):144-152Article PubMed PMC PDF
2. Siddiqui A, Adnan A, Abbas M, Taseen S, Ochani S, Essar MY. Revival of the heterologous prime-boost technique in COVID-19: an outlook from the history of outbreaks. Health Sci Rep 2022;5(2):e531PubMed PMC

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