Open AccessReply to the letter to the editor entitled “About the ‘critical reflections’ on the Municipal Epidemiological Resilience Index”
Author(s) -
Javier Eslava-Schmalbach,
Arango Restrepo,
Carol C Guarnizo-Herreño,
Juan Sebastián Castillo,
Román Vega-Romero,
María Patricia Arbeláez,
Rodrigo Pardo Turriago,
Paula Andrea Díaz,
Hernando Gaitán-Duarte,
Francy Cantor-Cruz,
Lyda Osório,
Tatiana Andía,
Carlos GómezRestrepo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de la facultad de medicina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2357-3848
pISSN - 0120-0011
DOI - 10.15446/revfacmed.v69n3.97126
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , context (archaeology) , public health , covid-19 , pandemic , psychological resilience , index (typography) , political science , epidemiology , public relations , sociology , medicine , psychology , history , nursing , social psychology , computer science , virology , physics , disease , archaeology , pathology , world wide web , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , thermodynamics
We greatly appreciate the comments made by Rojas-Botero et al.1 on our paper entitled “Critical reflections on the Municipal Epidemiological Resilience Index used for public policy decision-making regarding the control of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia”.2We acknowledge that public health, understood as the well-being of the community, should be the focus of all our efforts as health professionals. In this sense, decision-making amid a major emergency, such as the one we are currently experiencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, requires a balanced and calm judgment that considers both the general context and local specificities, as well as the best available scientific evidence, that is, evidence that not only supports decisions, but also prioritizes benefits over risks.