Lessons of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict for Public Health
The Case of the Covid-19 Vaccination Gap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15502467 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yara Dahdal (0000-0002-1355-207X, Palestinian Hydrology Group), Nadav Davidovitch (0000-0001-5709-9265, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Michael Gilmont (0000-0001-6822-2206, University of Oxford), Javier Lezaun (0000-0002-5483-3628, University of Oxford), Maya Negev (0000-0002-5523-3210, University of Haifa, corresponding author), Deborah Sandler (University of Oxford), Mohammed Shaheen (Palestinian Hydrology Group) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 11292-11292 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph182111292 |
| PMID | 34769811 |
| OpenAlex | W3210328939 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a faceless, non-adversarial threat that endangered Israelis and Palestinians with the same ferocity. However, the capacities of the health systems to address it were not equal, with Israel more equipped for the outbreak with infrastructure, resources, manpower and later, vaccines. The pandemic demonstrated the life-saving benefits of cooperation and the self-defeating harms brought by non-cooperation. These trends are explored here by an international team of public health and environmental scholars, including those from different sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article explores the importance of recognizing the Israeli and Palestinian jurisdictions as a single epidemiological unit, and illustrates how doing so is a pragmatic positioning that can serve self-interest. We demonstrate how despite political shocks precipitating non-cooperation, there has been a recurrent tendency towards limited cooperation. The paper concludes with lessons over the need for reframing public health as a potential bridge, the need for structural changes creating sustainable platforms for accelerated transboundary cooperation to enable the steady management of current and future public and environmental health crises regardless of dynamic political crises, and the importance of civil society and international organizations in forging collaboration in advance of governmental engagement
Adversarial system · Citizen journalism · Civil society · Cognitive reframing · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Zoonotic diseases and public health
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |