Lessons From the Pandemic: What Is Wrong and What Is Fixable in US Health Policy and Practice?

摘要

This is the first of two special sections of AJPH exploring the implications of the national elections of 2020 for addressing problems in health policy and its implementation that have emerged or been intensified during the pandemic. Editorials in this issue identify these problems and speculate about what government, at all levels, has the potential to do about them in 2021 and 2022. In the second special section, to be published later this year or next year, the same authors will amplify and perhaps modify their editorials. They will amplify them by adding historical and contemporary context to the issues and problems they address. Where necessary, they will modify what they wrote in their editorials to take account of recent events in the politics of making and implementing health policy.