Intersectoral collaboration and health services during COVID19: A multilevel multilevel study using qualitative and quantitative methods in Ahmedabad, India

Intersectoral cooperation for health is one of the most important principles of primary health care, as adopted in 1978 in Alma Ata as a worldwide program and repeatedly affirmed by the World Health Organization to this day. This approach has received a new boost in recent years through One Health, where the lack of cooperation at the interfaces between human, animal and environmental health has become so clear that its enabling and impeding factors can be examined particularly well here is pursuing the proposed study as a key research question of how cross-sectoral collaboration can minimize disruption to primary health services during a pandemic outbreak. Intersectoral collaboration for health in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad has already been studied and compared for the H5N1 avian flu outbreak (2017) and the subsequent outbreak-free period in a multi-step and multi-level process using various qualitative and quantitative methods. By re-collecting data of a similar nature, it will be possible to examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in real time, and thereby with less memory distortion than for 2017, and thus at the same time generate another possibility for comparison for the recovery phase. In addition, the influence of the pandemic on basic medical care can be researched at the same time with little additional effort using the example of childbirth.