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    Integrated social protection, inequity and COVID-19: rethinking Pacific community responses in Aotearoa (2021)

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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/101543
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    http://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1861033
    
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    Informa UK Limited
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    0303-6758
    1175-8899
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    en
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    Authors
    Ratuva S, Basu A, Chrichton-Hill Y, Ross T, Martin-Neuninger R, Vakaoti Pshow all
    Abstract

    COVID-19 has forced us to think critically about alternative global and local response strategies to the unprecedented devastation. Some of the most infected groups are Pacific communities and this has raised concern about the need to seriously address the issue of health and socio-economic inequality. One way of doing this is through social protection. The paper critically examines some of the conventional notions of social protection, especially those predicated on market-imperatives and assumptions and argues for new and community-relevant innovative social protection strategies to effectively mitigate the effects of COVID-19. It then discusses the integrated social protection approach (ISPA), The paper argues that while ISPA is an attempt to create an alternative, inclusive and participatory social protection strategy, the issues of equity in terms of distribution of resources and power still need to be fully addressed because of their potential to cause tension within the community. The meaningful participation and empowerment of the Pacific communities and the strategic use of their cultural norms in social protection framing and implementation are important in building up resilience and sustainability to mitigate effectively against the sudden onset of pandemics such as COVID-19.

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    Steven Ratuva , Yvonne Crichton-Hill , Tara Ross , Arindam Basu , Patrick Vakaoti & Rosemarie Martin-Neuninger (2021): Integrated social protection and COVID-19: rethinking Pacific community responses in Aotearoa, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2020.1861033
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    Keywords
    COVID-19; social protection; Pacific community; health; well-being
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    32 - Biomedical and clinical sciences::3207 - Medical microbiology::320705 - Medical virology
    45 - Indigenous studies::4516 - Pacific Peoples health and wellbeing::451605 - Pacific Peoples epidemiology
    45 - Indigenous studies::4516 - Pacific Peoples health and wellbeing::451616 - Pacific Peoples social determinants of health
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