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Lessons From South Korea’s Covid-19 Policy Response

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ID11673259
AuthorsJ You (0000-0002-4817-3651, University of Colorado Denver, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume50
Issue6-7
Pages801-808
Publication date2020-07-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe American Review of Public Administration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-0740 • E-ISSN: 1552-3357
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0275074020943708
OpenAlexW3042810832
LanguageEN
Citations received67
References cited17

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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