A (care) ethical analysis of the COVID-19 policy choices

Grant number: unknown

Grant search

Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Start & end year

    2020
    2022
  • Funder

    NWO Netherlands
  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. Pieter Dronkers
  • Research Location

    Netherlands
  • Lead Research Institution

    University for Humanistics
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)Older adults (65 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Disabled personsInternally Displaced and MigrantsOther

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

In order to arrive at a relevant and supported policy framework, the crisis policy at national level and in various sectors is linked to the experiential knowledge and advice of those involved and vulnerable groups. The research focuses on four groups who, certainly in the first crisis phase, had hardly had any voice and whose subsistence insecurity increased: a) people with intellectual disabilities and their relatives; b) refugees and migrants; c) the elderly (in long-term care) and their informal carers; and d) patients receiving palliative care and their loved ones.