[Methodological challenges for proactive post-Covid care strategies]

. Methodological challenges for proactive post-Covid care strategies. In the present global-national scenarios of healthcare systems obliged to recognise their profound failure in the management of the Covid pandemic, the uncertainties on what could possibly be done to reverse the causes of the failures are the dominant terms of reference. The urgent needs of substantially increasing the investments on the scarce human resources and on the structural inequalities in the access to care are, in fact, in profound contrast with policies obedient mainly to economic sustainability and further exclusion from health rights. An epidemiological agenda explicitly centred on the lives of communities as producers of knowledge (not based on administrative and artificially standardised data), and as real bottom-up partners of the classical top-down actors is illustrated. The above perspective is discussed as a provocative and at the same time realistic opportunity for an innovative promotion of an autonomous role of the nursing professions and research.