COVID-19 Pandemic : What Can the West Learn From the East?
(2020) In International Journal of Health Policy and Management 9(10). p.436-438- Abstract
Differences in public health approaches to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could largely explain substantial variations in epidemiological indicators (such as incidence and mortality) between the West and the East. COVID-19 revealed vulnerabilities of most western countries' healthcare systems in their response to the ongoing public health crisis. Hence, western countries can possibly learn from practices from several East Asian countries regarding infrastructures, epidemiological surveillance and control strategies to mitigate the public health impact of the pandemic. In this paper, we discuss that the lack of rapid and timely community-centered approaches, and most importantly weak public health... (More)
Differences in public health approaches to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic could largely explain substantial variations in epidemiological indicators (such as incidence and mortality) between the West and the East. COVID-19 revealed vulnerabilities of most western countries' healthcare systems in their response to the ongoing public health crisis. Hence, western countries can possibly learn from practices from several East Asian countries regarding infrastructures, epidemiological surveillance and control strategies to mitigate the public health impact of the pandemic. In this paper, we discuss that the lack of rapid and timely community-centered approaches, and most importantly weak public health infrastructures, might have resulted in a high number of infected cases and fatalities in many western countries.
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- Shokoohi, Mostafa ; Osooli, Mehdi LU and Stranges, Saverio
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-05-31
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- International Journal of Health Policy and Management
- volume
- 9
- issue
- 10
- pages
- 436 - 438
- publisher
- Kerman University of Medical Sciences
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- pmid:32610736
- scopus:85089346853
- ISSN
- 2322-5939
- DOI
- 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.85
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- © 2020 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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