The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: we urgently need to look beyond the virus

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https://doi.org/10.29166/rfcmq.v45i2.3547

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Social Medicine, Coronavirus Infections, Health Systems, Ecuador

Abstract

The conception of health as the provision of hospital services, medical treatment, prescription, and delivery of drugs to treat
illness is a narrow and fragmented conception of the right to health.
It is not the SARS-CoV-2 of just 20 nanometers that is hitting our fragile health systems; it is the breakdown of the social
balance and the weak impact of the ecosystemic approach to social determinants of health in dealing with this pandemic.

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2020-12-31

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Mena MB. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: we urgently need to look beyond the virus. Rev Fac Cien Med (Quito) [Internet]. 2020 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];45(2):5-7. Available from: https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CIENCIAS_MEDICAS/article/view/3547

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2020): Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas (Quito)

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EDITORIAL

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