Time to identify and correct structural defects - InSight+
“PANDEMIC” is the word for 2020 according to the Merriam–Webster dictionary. No wonder, as the global COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our entire society and exposed some of the darker aspects of human nature. There is now well-established research showing that the pandemic has exaggerated and amplified pre-existing structural biases and systemic inequities in health systems. Many of the structural drivers of health-related behaviors and outcomes such as racism have been broadly characterized, including the way the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates these drivers. But far less attention has been paid to the role of organizational and systemic factors related to goodness. The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the unsettling truth about the issue of goodness in health. Health care workers experienced significantly more COVID-19-related bullying than people who did not work in health care settings after controlling for confounding effects, according to a study from 173 countries. Another stud