Lessons From South Korea’s Covid-19 Policy Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11673259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J You (0000-0002-4817-3651, University of Colorado Denver, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 6-7 |
| Pages | 801-808 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Review of Public Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-0740 • E-ISSN: 1552-3357 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0275074020943708 |
| OpenAlex | W3042810832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 17 |
In responding to the Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, some government policies have been more effective in containing, suppressing, and mitigating the disease than others. Government leaders and public administrators can learn from other countries and adapt these lessons to their crisis management and public health systems. South Korea has emerged as a model to emulate in fighting the pandemic. While South Korea endured devastating early outbreaks, the country flattened the coronavirus curve without paralyzing the national health and economic systems. The author reviews South Korea’s public health policy approaches and the embedded context, by using documents and materials written in Korean and English, to learn how the country managed coronavirus from January through April 2020. The critical factors in South Korea’s public health administration and management that led to success include national infectious disease plans, collaboration with the private sector, stringent contact tracing, an adaptive health care system, and government-driven communication. This article also proposes some key aspects to be considered to transfer lessons from country-level responses in South Korea to other contexts
Business · Contact tracing · Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Crisis management · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Health care · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Pandemic · Political science · Private sector · Public health · Public sector · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Disaster Management and Resilience · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration
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| Citation types | Neutral: 66 |