Understanding the implications of pandemic delays for the end of life

新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）造成的数不清的死亡人数，正在出现与大流行相关延误导致的诊断或治疗延迟有关的“可避免的死亡”。家庭和社区如何经历和感受到延迟，需要迫切关注。该项目旨在了解大流行延迟对死亡和丧亲之痛的影响，包括在延迟中形成疾病和护理体验的社会文化因素。这一项目的重要性在于其创新的社会学方法;预期成果包括产生关于生命结束时的需求的新知识，这些需求跨越各种背景和环境。好处包括提供调查结果，为社会和卫生政策提供信息，并改进实践，以实现良好的死亡。

The untold toll of Covid-19 is emerging in ‘avoidable deaths’ linked to late(r) diagnosis or treatment due to pandemic-related delay. How delays are experienced and felt across families and communities requires urgent attention. This project aims to understand the implications of pandemic delay for dying and bereavement, including the sociocultural factors that shape experiences of illness and care amid delay. The significance of this project lies in its innovative sociological approach; expected outcomes include the generation of new knowledge on needs at the end of life that move across contexts and settings. Benefits include provision of findings that will inform social and health policy and practice improvements to enable good deaths.