Are high-performing health systems resilient against the COVID-19 epidemic?

[...]intragovernmental coordination was improved because health authorities drew on their experiences of severe acute respiratory syndrome during 2002–03 in Hong Kong and Singapore, H5N1 avian influenza in 1997 in Hong Kong, and the 2009 influenza H1N1 pandemic in all three locations. [...]all locat...

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Published in:The Lancet 2020-03, Vol.395 (10227), p.848-850
Main Authors: Legido-Quigley, Helena, Asgari, Nima, Teo, Yik Ying, Leung, Gabriel M, Oshitani, Hitoshi, Fukuda, Keiji, Cook, Alex R, Hsu, Li Yang, Shibuya, Kenji, Heymann, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Avian flu
Betacoronavirus - pathogenicity
Civil Defense
Comment
Communication
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections - transmission
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Critical care
Diagnostic tests
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Epidemics - prevention & control
False information
Global Health
Health Information Systems
Health Systems Agencies
Healthcare Financing
Hospitals
Humans
Influenza
Interinstitutional Relations
Laboratories
Medical supplies
Pandemics
Pneumonia
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - transmission
Politics
Population Surveillance
Public health
Quarantine
Risk
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Surveillance
Travel
Viral diseases
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Summary:[...]intragovernmental coordination was improved because health authorities drew on their experiences of severe acute respiratory syndrome during 2002–03 in Hong Kong and Singapore, H5N1 avian influenza in 1997 in Hong Kong, and the 2009 influenza H1N1 pandemic in all three locations. [...]all locations adapted financing measures so that all direct costs for treating patients are borne by the governments. [...]the trust of patients, health-care professionals, and society as a whole in government is of paramount importance for meeting health crises.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30551-1