16: Co-production in emergency responses and the ‘new normal’
An afterword for Volume 1
In the introduction to this volume, we outlined how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to better understand and utilize co-produced responses to improve public policy, political responses, and health and social care research and practice. However, there are extensive constraining social structures that inhibit working in this way. The experiences of the most exposed, marginalised, and discriminated – in short, those who are systematically excluded in our societies – rarely directly influence the policies and practice that are ostensibly created for their protection. Crucially, given the disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19, why are these people and communities not considered best placed to create and implement sought-after solutions for effective management, improvement, and research of pandemic responses?
Through this book, we wanted to:
explore how so many people are ignored, disempowered, and discriminated against in health and social care research, policy, and practice;
address how and why more collaborative, diverse, and inclusive responses could lessen the toll of this pandemic and future health emergencies, as well as more generally improve health and social care research, policy, and practice;
illustrate how and why collaborative ways of working can help to address the social wrongs and power imbalances that we need to right.
In particular, this volume set out to explore: (1) the impact of existing structures on ambitions and efforts to work in more participatory and collaborative ways in health and social care research, policy, and practice, and (2) how the pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated existing inequities and marginalisation both in practice and research. The collection has demonstrated through a diverse range of examples the impact of the pandemic on people’s lives and ways of working.
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