Challenges for Collective Health in Caring for Socially Vulnerable Individuals, Families, and Communities amidst the Pandemic

ABSTRACT

For health care, the collapse of services, the precarious conditions of workers, and the reproduction of social inequities and inequalities have exacerbated issues such as poverty, hunger, domestic violence, mental health problems, complications due to chronic diseases, and disability, adversely affecting socially vulnerable people, families, and communities. Historical challenge of nursing care to alleviate human suffering As a knowledge and practice domain, collective health conceives the health-disease process-determined by historical, social, and cultural processes-as opposed to the primacy of individual biology and the fragmentation of the human being subordinated to the clinic and pathology of organs and systems, depending on the medical model (1). [...]the WHO (2) has reiterated the importance of nursing staff in the health care system.