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cord-266382-co3n724s	Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luís	Social Justice for Public Health: The COVID-19 Response in Portugal	2020-11-09		.txt	text/plain	3440	149	47	The Portuguese case study suggests that enhancing social justice towards socio-economically vulnerable groups correlates with the prevention of the spread of COVID-19; these benefits to public health can be explained by the fact that those policies create social distancing and less exposure to the COVID-19 virus and other contagious diseases and also remove disincentives to the use of healthcare services. I wish to argue, in this case study analysis, that the social justice measures implemented by the Portuguese government played an important role in effectively promoting public health during the current pandemic. In other words, the existing correlation between Portuguese social justice policies and positive outcomes for public health, which mitigated the spread of COVID-19, can be explained by the fact that those policies allowed and encouraged conditions for more social-distancing to take place, and thereby less infections of COVID-19 and other contagious diseases to occur; further, by providing incentives for the socio-economically vulnerable population to use the nation's health services, the policies expedited detection of infections, thereby reducing the probability of an infection spread.	./cache/cord-266382-co3n724s.txt	./txt/cord-266382-co3n724s.txt