10.47313 SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP AWARENESS AND STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTIONS IN THE NEW NORMAL

SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP AWARENESS AND STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTIONS IN THE NEW NORMAL

Abstract

Today’s community-based public health organization has become an
increasingly developed idea globally in maintaining public safety and health.
Learning from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic for the past three years,
conventional health infrastructure has proven unable to work optimally in the face
of waves of patients exposed in almost all countries, even in Western European
and North American countries known for having the best health facilities in the
world. The experience gives importance to organizing community-based health
services in addition to strengthening conventional health infrastructure. The
need to strengthen community-based health organizations has been recognized
by the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as specifically recommending
the strengthening of health workers at the community level in carrying out mass
vaccinations during the Covid-19 pandemic (WHO, 2021).