Preparing for the next pandemic: 5 recommendations from Johns Hopkins

Becker's Healthcare December 14, 2021
Georgina Gonzalez

The pandemic highlighted the interplay between primary care and public health, and many lessons have been learned over the course of 18 months on how to improve partnership between the two. Now, a new report published Dec. 14 suggests tangible actions to do just so.

In the report, Johns Hopkins researchers looked to investigate the degree of collaboration between primary care providers and public health officials throughout the course of the pandemic. They conducted a literature review and interviewed key public officials and physicians to collect data on what went wrong during the pandemic and how to improve key issues in the future.

Here are the recommendations given by the authors:

1. Federal and state agencies need to...

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