An analysis of China’s strategy in combating the coronavirus pandemic with the 3H framework

PurposeThis paper attempts to theorise about China’s strategy in combating the coronavirus pandemic with an embryonic framework - 3H (Heart-Head-Hand) framework. By adopting a descriptive approach, the paper introduces the case of coronavirus outbreak in China and how the public health administration coped with it. The 3H framework has been applied to analyse China’s strategy, and the framework’s assumptions are initially tested.Design/methodology/approachThe pandemic case is created based on credible reports, press releases from different respected sources, World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, interview transcripts and broadcasting stations’ video clippings. Interpretive analysis with pragmatism approach has been conducted in analysing the data and information collected. Triangulation, wherever possible, has been done to validate the data and information.FindingsAs an exploratory study, its findings show that 3H framework distinguishes the effectiveness of a country’s strategy and practice for combating the pandemic. Countries, which failed to observe the assumed principles of 3H domains tend to have much more infected cases and deaths.Originality/valueThe 3H framework conceptualised a holistic management approach and its assumptions have been initially tested with this pandemic case. The framework shows its predictability value for a country’s pandemic management effectiveness.

Term Limits in Academic Public Health Administration

Objectives Term limits might be appropriate for leadership positions in academic public health. This study assessed the appointment processes and terms for deans, directors, and chairs of schools and programs of public health and their views on term limits. Methods A 10-question survey was developed for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and provided electronically to 127 deans and program directors in November and December 2019, of whom 58 (46%) responded. Results Of 54 respondents to the question on term limits, 45 deans and directors of schools and programs of public health served with no terms or limits and 9 served with terms of 3-5 years with no limits on the number of terms. Respondents largely agreed with most arguments for or against term limits. Of 51 respondents, most indicated completely or moderately valid support for 2 arguments for term limits: diversity (n = 40) and succession planning (n = 40). Of 51 respondents, most indicated completely or moderately valid support for 3 arguments against term limits: stable and continuous leadership (n = 40), time for leadership development (n = 37), and loss of institutional memory (n = 35). Twenty-seven of 53 responding deans and directors viewed the most appropriate terms and limits as being more restrictive than their current terms; the other 26 viewed the most appropriate terms as being the same as their current terms. No respondents preferred less restrictive limits than their current terms. Conclusion Although term limits for deans, directors, and chairs are rare in schools and programs of public health, many deans and directors view term limits as appropriate. Schools and programs may reconsider their current policies for term limits.

What can you find online about Nursing-home? A website analysis on the Metropolitan City of Milan

Background Websites are among the most important communication distribution tools in everyday life. Does this apply to assisted living facility too? Can website information be used to assess quality of care? Can Public Health Administration use information provided on nursing home websites to define whether accreditation standards are met? The aim of this study was to assess websites of all the assisted living facility of the Metropolitan City of Milan (MCM) Agency for Health Protection (ATS) territory according to five dimensions: Description, Utility tools, eHealth literacy, Accreditation Standard and Usability, to answer the questions above. Methods A total of 141 websites for MSM ATS nursing homes were identified. A tailored check-list approach was used to investigate each of the 5 dimensions for all websites. For the dimension Description we analyse 20 items, for the Utility tools 14 items, for the eHealth literacy 12 items, for the Accreditation Standard 5 item and for Usability 6 item. A score was assigned to each dimension based on completeness of check-list items. Results Of the 160 nursing homes in the MSM ATS, 141 had a website (88%). No website was complete of all items. The average score was 34% the higher was 65% the lower 12%. The five dimensions description, utility tools, eHealth literacy, accreditation standard and usability scored 44%, 16%, 25%, 18% and 29% respectively. The Item more founded was Mission, 137 sites (97%), the least was Customer Satisfaction in 5 Sites (4%). We evaluated the Social Media presence: 81 facility (57%) have at least one social media. Conclusions Notwithstanding the Internet and Social Media are a powerful tool to promote eHealth Literacy are underused. Health promotion is shared more with the social media rather than the webpages. The webpage could become a powerful instrument to use by Administration to define whether accreditation standards are met but the contents on the sites are few and non-consistent. Key messages 11.500 people are assisted by our nursing homes, so part of the population can be reach through websites. We analyse them and discover that health promotion is spread by social media not by websites. We wanted to understand if Public Health Administration can evaluate accreditation standards through the website. We discover that standards can be evaluated on line rather than in-site assessment.

Lessons From South Korea’s Covid-19 Policy Response

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.

A stochastic time-delayed model for the effectiveness of Moroccan COVID-19 deconfinement strategy

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a great threat to public health and the economy worldwide. Currently, COVID-19 evolves in many countries to a second stage, characterized by the need for the liberation of the economy and relaxation of the human psychological effects. To this end, numerous countries decided to implement adequate deconfinement strategies. After the first prolongation of the established confinement, Morocco moves to the deconfinement stage on May 20, 2020. The relevant question concerns the impact on the COVID-19 propagation by considering an additional degree of realism related to stochastic noises due to the effectiveness level of the adapted measures. In this paper, we propose a delayed stochastic mathematical model to predict the epidemiological trend of COVID-19 in Morocco after the deconfinement. To ensure the well-posedness of the model, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a positive solution. Based on the large number theorem for martingales, we discuss the extinction of the disease under an appropriate threshold parameter. Moreover, numerical simulations are performed in order to test the efficiency of the deconfinement strategies chosen by the Moroccan authorities to help the policy makers and public health administration to make suitable decisions in the near future.

COVID-19 And Public Health Administration: Trends And Prospects

This paper provides a bibliographic analysis of the scientific background devoted to public health administration prospects regarding spreading coronavirus disease worldwide. The study sample consists of 1240 scientific documents on public health administration published from 2015 to 2021. The search of relative documents was conducted by the keyphrase «public health administration» in the document titles, abstracts and keywords. The publications’ source is the Scopus database. The software VOSviewer version 1.6.15 was used to visualize the network map of keywords co-occurrences under the restriction of at least 40 keyword occurrences in the study sample. The obtained results allowed identifying four clusters indicating the research directions of investigated publications. Therefore, the first cluster is focused on gender and age differences. The author found that these documents were published mostly in 2018. The second cluster indicated the current research direction in investigating public health administrations and COVID-19. The author noted the growing scientists’ interest in coronavirus infection issues, virus pneumonia, coronavirus disease 2019, disease outbreaks and COVID-19 since 2020. Moreover, the scientists were interested in studying the planning and control of the coronavirus incidence regarding proper health administration. The third cluster indicated researching health policy, especially health care policy, health care planning, health care delivery, and health equity. In turn, the fourth cluster is the most powerful by keyword links in the study sample. The author noted that the fourth cluster is the most powerful by keyword links. This cluster consists of 28 terms, while the most important terms by link strengths are public health administration, public health service. Besides, it indicates the research direction on procedures, standards, organization, and public health management. The obtained results allowed assuming that further studies would be devoted to healthcare institutions’ administration and financial provision, vaccination against COVID-19 and assessing its impact.