The Next Phase of Public Health: Innovations from the Private Sector to Build Health Equity, Collaborations, and Resilience

Download or read book The Next Phase of Public Health: Innovations from the Private Sector to Build Health Equity, Collaborations, and Resilience written by Susan S. Garfield and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the essential nature of public health to a high-functioning society across all realms: personal, governmental, and corporate. Corporations, specifically, experienced the significant business impact that a major public health event can have, having to manage workplaces from a health and safety perspective, address workforce disruption, deal with vacillating demand for goods and services, and manage the disruption of supply chains. Entire industries were disrupted disproportionately like the service and travel industries. In addition, corporations saw the disparate impact on their minority workers, bringing health inequities into sharp focus. These and other consequences demonstrated the drastic economic impact that public health occurrences can have on businesses and the communities in which they operate.