233 - Why There Are Fewer COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Cantabria, Spain Than the Rest of the Country
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Urban areas in Spain have been hard hit by COVID, but the rural northern state of Cantabria has fared much better thanks to a strong public health approach. Dr. Paloma Navas, former director general for public health in the region, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the area's hard-won successes in lower case counts and deaths.
KEYWORDS: policy; pandemic response; contact tracing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.3 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.7 | at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.4 | Today we travel to the state of Cantabria, Spain, for an interview with Dr. Paloma Navas, |
| 0:52.9 | Director General for Public Health. Thanks in large |
| 0:56.1 | measure to the work of Dr. Navas and her colleagues, Cantabria has seen fewer cases and deaths |
| 1:01.8 | than surrounding areas of Spain, but it has not been easy. Let's listen. Dr. Navas, thank you so |
| 1:09.4 | much for joining me. |
| 1:11.2 | Could you start by telling us a little bit about Cantabria and your position there? |
| 1:17.0 | So right now I'm Director General for Public Health in Cantabria. |
| 1:21.1 | Cantabria is a state in northern Spain. |
| 1:24.5 | Beautiful. |
| 1:25.5 | So as soon as this ends, you should all come to visit. And my role here is to |
| 1:30.4 | make sure the public health system works properly for the region. So I'm taking care of not only |
| 1:37.8 | COVID, but water sanitation, vaccinations, cancer screening, and so on. |
| 1:46.1 | And you've been in that position since when? |
| 1:49.3 | I got in this position last September. |
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