The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19

The full extent of COVID-19's impact remains to be seen. At CGD, we've been reviewing the indirect health effects brought on by disruptions to essential health services. Over the past year CGD partnered with researchers in Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa,and Uganda to document, from a whole-of-health perspective, what we know about the nature, scale, and scope of the disruptions to essential health services in those countries, and the health effects of such disruptions. Find out more below!

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The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda
Carleigh Krubiner et al.
March 30, 2021
Much of the initial COVID response focused on limiting cases and deaths, without sufficient attention to the broader indirect impacts. A new CGD series investigates.
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Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Lockdown in South Africa
Benjamin Smart et al.
March 30, 2021
This paper investigates both the potential impact of national lockdown measures on COVID-19 transmission, and other health and non-health indicators in South Africa, based on available data. We present findings relating to both “costs” and “benefits” in health terms of the national lockdown side by ...
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Services and Mitigation Measures in Uganda
Nazarius Tumwesigye et al.
March 30, 2021
On 21st March 2020, Uganda reported its first COVID-19 case. The government responded by instituting a lockdown and other measures. We assess the effects of the COVID-19 containment measures on health services to better inform the next preventive measures. We use a case study approach that involved ...
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Assessing the Indirect Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya
Edwine Barasa et al.
March 30, 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the indirect health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. We employed a mixed-methods approach, combining the analysis of secondary quantitative data obtained from the Kenya Health Information System database (from January 2019 to November 2020) and a qualitat...