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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WORKING PAPER

Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines
Diana Beatriz S. Bayani
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Soon Guan Tan
March 30, 2021
This paper presents a preliminary review on the collateral health systems impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines through review of academic and grey literature, supplemented by a qualitative survey.

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What Do We Really Know About COVID-19’s Impact on Essential Health Services? Evidence from Kenya and Uganda
March 18, 2021
This event, the first in a series of panels examining the indirect health effects of COVID-19 and co-hosted by CGD and Gates Ventures will focus on emerging findings from Kenya and Uganda, comparing how these two neighboring countries experienced disruptions to essential health s...
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The Hidden Health Cost of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Valerie Gilbert Ulep et al.
March 04, 2021
In a recent blog, we asked “what do we really know about COVID-19’s impact on essential health services?” In that blog, our focus was primarily on what international partners were doing to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on essential health services. What we didn’t highlight is the increasingly deta...
Blog Post

What Do We Really Know About COVID-19’s Impact on Essential Health Services?
Damian Walker et al.
February 18, 2021
In this blog, we describe some major global efforts that examine whether essential health services have been disrupted during the pandemic, summarize what they tell us, and highlight some of the remaining gaps in our understanding and knowledge.