Urban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorAnaafo, David
dc.contributor.authorOwusu-Addo, Ebenezer
dc.contributor.authorTaky, Stephen Appiah
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T00:09:55Z
dc.date.available2023-09-21T00:09:55Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe global COVID-19 pandemic, with its associated issues of isolation, enhanced hygiene practices and contact tracing brought up a number of issues to the public domain, many of which bordered on the nexus between urban planning and public health. This paper sets out to examine how new ideas concerning the linkages between urban planning and public health revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic can be integrated into practice, moving forward; and how we might leverage on the crisis to build more just, healthier and liveable cities. Through a review of the literature on public policy responses to pandemics, it is observed that the current urban planning system in Ghana leaves so many people behind and exposes the lives of many to current and future disease pandemics. We propose an agenda for transformation which revolves around the co-evolution and co-creation of new forms of societal values that are less materialistic and individualistic but rather more egalitarian.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipACE: Energy and Environmental Sustainabilityen_US
dc.identifier.issn2374-8834
dc.identifier.issn 2374-8842
dc.identifier.issn2374-8842
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2158
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCITIES & HEALTHen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCITIES & HEALTH;2021, VOL. 5, NO. S1
dc.subjectACE: Energy and Environmental Sustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectUniversity of Energy & Natural Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectPoweren_US
dc.subjectPlanningen_US
dc.subjectpublic Policyen_US
dc.subjectpublic Healthen_US
dc.titleUrban planning and public policy responses to the management of COVID-19 in Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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