Abstract
AbstractThe rapid spread of the current COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies worldwide, leading to excess mortality, long-lasting health consequences, strained healthcare systems, and additional strains and spillover effects on other sectors outside health (i.e., intersectoral costs and benefits). In this perspective piece, we demonstrate the broader societal impacts of COVID-19 on other sectors outside the health sector and the growing importance of capturing these in health economic analyses. These broader impacts include, for instance, the effects on the labor market and productivity, education, criminal justice, housing, consumption, and environment. The current pandemic highlights the importance of adopting a societal perspective to consider these broader impacts of public health issues and interventions and only omit these where it can be clearly justified as appropriate to do so. Furthermore, we explain how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated existing deep-rooted structural inequalities that contribute to the wider societal impacts of the pandemic.
Highlights
The rapid spread of the current coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19), has left societies with a high number of excess deaths and a wide range of health consequences and taken a heavy toll on wider global economies, impacting other sectors outside health [1]
We do not aim to provide a complete overview of all of the sectors affected by COVID-19, but to demonstrate how we can begin to assess the impact of a public health threat on the different societal sectors
The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that a broader perspective and approach in health economics research can be essential for certain analyses
Summary
The rapid spread of the current coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19), has left societies with a high number of excess deaths and a wide range of health consequences and taken a heavy toll on wider global economies, impacting other sectors outside health [1]. The pandemic has clearly exposed the broader societal impacts a public health threat can have on society. These broader societal impacts that spill over to other sectors of society outside health are referred to as intersectoral costs and benefits [7].
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