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COVID-19: How to Reduce Some Environmental and Social Impacts?

Christian VoirolJulia SaderMarie-Claude Audetat
Published in: Annals of global health (2020)
The proposed viewpoint seems important at this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the COVID-19 prevention strategies implemented in the population are based on medical paradigms that generate extremely deleterious social and environmental impacts. Using the occupational health and safety perspective - taking care of myself with recyclables PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) - in place of the medical perspective - taking care of others with disposable PPE - can help to influence and support this important public health reflection.
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