[Methodological challenges for proactive post-Covid care strategies]. / Opportunità-priorità di innovazione metodologica nel tempo dopo Covid.

. Methodological challenges for proactive post-Covid care strategies. In the present global-national scenarios of healthcare systems obliged to recognise their profound failure in the management of the Covid pandemic, the uncertainties on what could possibly be done to reverse the causes of the failures are the dominant terms of reference. The urgent needs of substantially increasing the investments on the scarce human resources and on the structural inequalities in the access to care are, in fact, in profound contrast with policies obedient mainly to economic sustainability and further exclusion from health rights. An epidemiological agenda explicitly centred on the lives of communities as producers of knowledge (not based on administrative and artificially standardised data), and as real bottom-up partners of the classical top-down actors is illustrated. The above perspective is discussed as a provocative and at the same time realistic opportunity for an innovative promotion of an autonomous role of the nursing professions and research.

[Cultural meta-analysis 2: the after Covid-19]. / Metanalisi culturale 2: il dopo Covid-19.

. Cultural meta-analysis 2: the after Covid-19. Against the background of the promises-expectations of an ethically and ecologically renewed and resilient world (declared needed to compensate and to avoid the repetition of the pandemic tragedy), the same methodology proposed in the heart of the Covid scenario has been applied: a cultural metanalysis - transversal through and comprehensive of the various points of view which have had ( and seem to have) an important role for a period defined as 'some light at the end of the tunnel'. After the mandatory priority of a focus on the most qualified health literature, the survey provides essential elements of information and analysis on scenarios which more closely coincide with the challenges to be faced if and when the imaginary of a 'different-better' world should be translated into reality, specifically in the model area of health. With the obvious limitation of an exercise of methodology (which cannot pretend to a completeness of coverage), both world famous and 'significant' authors are included, as well as Italian voices. The take-home - not easy - message is clear. The pandemic has not been an 'health-disease' event. Its 'syndemic' nature (i.e. its interaction with structural, permanent, economic, social, cultural pandemics) imposes the acceptance and the long-term pursuit of new civilisation paradigms. Health care is definitely one of the areas where this cultural challenge must be met.

Health as a Human Right: A Fake News in a Post-human World?

Based on a synthetic overview that embraces the evolution of the 'health' concept, and its related institutions, from the role of health as the main indicator of fundamental human rights-as envisaged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-to its qualification as the systems of disease control dependent on criteria of economic sustainability, the paper focuses on the implications and the impact of such evolution in two model scenarios which are centred on the COVID-19 pandemia. The article analyses COVID-19 both in the characteristics of its global dynamics and in its concrete management, as performed in a model medium income country, Argentina. In a world which has progressively assigned market values and goods an absolute strategic and political priority over the health needs and the rights to health of individual and peoples, the recognition of health as human right is confined to aspirational recommendations and rather hollowed out declarations of good will.

[A cultural meta-analysis for post Covid-19 times]. / Una metanalisi culturale per i tempi di post Covid-19.

A cultural meta-analysis for post Covid-19 times. The professional and human experience of the still ongoing emergency which has transformed the structure itself of the lives of world countries has generated a very large and fragmented spectrum of mainly descriptive and narrative publications (from inside the professions involved, as well as on the impact of the pandemia on the society) which defy any tentative of comprehensive understanding. This contribution proposes the results of an unusual, possibly provocative, metanalytic approach adapted to assess the existence, if any, of general evidences which could be assumed as a take home message of the heterogeneous, highly rich, mainly qualitative materials which have been produced so far: on the care aspects of the pandemia as well as on its more general significance for and impact on the society. The predefined biases and limitations of this approach (defined as cultural, i.e.which tries to provide an overall picture beyond the details) are declared to introduce and justify the outcome results of the exercise: a series of keywords is presented and commented as a guide into the future of a nursing profession ready and willing to have a more autonomous and innovative professional identity in the health care scenario and in the society.

[When, how, why and whom for there will be an "after" Covid-19?] / Ci sarà - quando, come, perché, per chi - un "dopo" - Covid 19?

. When, how, why and whom for there will be an "after" Covid-19? The announced, but unpredicted, radical and global experience of the Covid-19 pandemia has revealed the degree of ignorance, fragmentation, inadequacy of the national and international knowledge and strategies of intervention and, even more substantially, of coordination across all the critical areas of prevention and care. The importance of the nursing component of the organisation and of the technical and cultural aspects of health care delivery and accessibility has been underlined as a protagonist of the resistance and resilience during the worst period of the emergency, and should be specifically involved in this renewal, where a profound modification of the interactions, hierarchies, roles of various professions is required. A long term, widespread, flexible experimentation of country specific and international solutions must be envisaged and timely activated. The 'grammar' and the major concrete characteristics of the methodology which could be usefully adopted to guarantee the feasibility and effectiveness of this 'systemic' experimentation are proposed and exemplified.

[The covid-19 emergency in the words of the nurses]. / L'emergenza covid-19 nelle parole degli infermieri 1. Cosa è cambiato nel modo di lavorare 2. Essere preparati all'emergenza 3. Lavorare in team 4. La solitudine e l'isolamento dei pazienti 5. La solitudine degli infermieri 6. Le scelte difficili 7. L'organizzazione del lavoro e dei reparti 8. Cosa cambierà dopo il covid-19.

. The covid-19 emergency in the words of the nurses . This special issue of AIR is dedicated to the direct professional experiences and personal testimonies of a sample of the nursing personnel during the most dramatic phase of the covid-19 pandemia in the most severely affected regions of Northern Italy (Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Friuli, Trentino, Emilia Romagna Regions). The decision to adopt a research strategy aimed to give visibility and voice to colleagues representing some of the key hospitals of the regions obliged to a radical reorganisation of their structures and organisation of care, was adopted to catch from inside the crisis scenarios the expected mix of intense emotions (from anxiety, to fatigue, to personal and professional uncertainty, to the burden of impotence), and of needed technical creativity and efficiency which were requested to face a totally unexpected situation where guidelines could hardly be of help. The interview/diaries/focus groups were carefully planned not so much in terms of the contents, but with attention to the acceptance of the interviewed to enter in a free dialogue, with no Q&A, to be recorded, and to last for the time felt to be by both sides appropriate. The texts which are reported in this dossier are fragments of the recordings (overall more then 30 hours), without adjustments. It has been agreed that while all the names of the participants are provided as 'authors', the individual contributions are anonymous (not out of privacy consideration!) as they are part of a collective narrative, which reflects the great variability of the languages and of the perceived-expressed experiences and memories. The material has been organised in sections which are conceived as 'verbal snapshots' taken from the networks of care settings, but at the same time of the places and houses where the colleagues were literally full-time living, to assure unaccountable overtime working hours, and the requested 'safety distances' and lockdowns. The titles of the 8 sections coincide somehow with the principal components of the chain of activities and challenges which had to be faced: The changes in everyday's care, How to be prepared to the emergency, The teamwork, The loneliness and the isolation of the patients, The loneliness of the nurses, The difficult choices, The organization of the work and of the wards, change after covid-19. The core of the dossier is framed by boxes which provide also a minimum background of the administrative and epidemiological data on the pandemia in the regions of interest (it is interesting to remind that the central-southern areas of Italy have been far less affected), and a brief concluding reflection on reflection on the post-pandemia from the nursing point of view.