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In times of a pandemic, this reflection conceives two enormous challenges for nursing in collective health. Politically, the challenge is to vindicate and recognize care as a creative and transformative action taken by individuals, families, and communities in territories to sustain life and mitigate human suffering through health promotion, disease prevention, and care. Ethically, the task is to clearly understand safe, supportive, and sustainable actions to strengthen equity and ethos of caring as a project-oriented to welfare, compassion, and the defense of the right to health.

Highlights

  • PALABRAS CLAVE (Fuente: DeCS) Vulnerabilidad social; atención de enfermería; ética en enfermería; política pública; equidad en salud

  • COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most devastating events humanity has experienced globally, nationally, and locally. It has revealed the fragility of life and human suffering and, on the other, uncertainty and paradoxes

  • In attempting to raise awareness of care, this reflection aims to outline the challenges for nursing in collective health based on the legacy of care in a pandemic, care as a creative and transformative action, and the advocacy of law for essential health care

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PALABRAS CLAVE (Fuente: DeCS) Vulnerabilidad social; atención de enfermería; ética en enfermería; política pública; equidad en salud. KEYWORDS (Source: DeCS) Social vulnerability; nursing care; nursing ethics; public policy; health equity. Challenges for Collective Health in Caring for Socially Vulnerable Individuals, Families, and Communities amidst the Pandemic.

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