Abstract

This paper introduces the FSE special session ‘Healthcare, Covid-19 and the Foundational Economy’, which uses the Foundational Economy (FE) approach to analyze the public health crisis determined by Covid-19. First, the paper briefly presents the FE approach, which consists of two macro-areas. The former, identified as a 'material' foundational economy, comprises the supply of basic goods and services (i.e. water, electricity, gas, food or banking). The latter, defined as a 'providential' foundational economy, comprises services traditionally covered by welfare policies and indispensable to our lives, including healthcare. Subsequently, the introduction illustrates the contributions of the special session, which includes articles on France, Italy, Spain, the US as well as a comparative analysis of the Covid-19 impact in Europe. In presenting these papers, the introduction shows how the FE concepts and methodological tools are relevant and extremely useful to analyze the public health pandemic crisis and its causes.

摘要

本文介绍了FSE专场“医疗保健、Covid-19和基础经济”，它使用基础经济（FE）的方法来分析由Covid-19确定的公共卫生危机。首先，本文简要介绍了有限元方法，它由两个宏观领域组成。前者被确定为“物质”基础经济，包括基本商品和服务的供应（即水、电、天然气、食品或银行业务）。后者被定义为“自给自足”的基础经济，包括传统上由福利政策涵盖且对我们的生活必不可少的服务，包括医疗保健。随后，引言说明了特别会议的贡献，其中包括关于法国、意大利、西班牙、美国的文章以及对 Covid-19 在欧洲影响的比较分析。