COVID-19 response in a unitary state: emerging lessons from Vietnam

Hartley, Kris; Bales, Sarah; Bali, Azad Singh

doi:10.1080/25741292.2021.1877923

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“…We expect that federal and decentralized countries will be altogether slower in their initial responses to the coronavirus crisis (cf. Hartley et al, 2021;Hegele & Schnabel, 2021;Yan et al, 2020). At the political level, federal countries might require political compromises between the federal and regional-level authorities (Pattyn et al, 2020).…”

Section: Political Institutionsmentioning

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Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?

Toshkov

Carroll

Yesilkagit

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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European states responded to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with a variety of public policy measures. In this article we ask what can account for this variation in policy responses, and we identify a number of factors related to institutions, general governance and specific health-sector related capacities, societal trust, government type, and party preferences as possible determinants. Using multivariate regression and survival analysis, we model the speed with which school closures and national lockdowns were imposed. The models suggest a number of significant and often counterintuitive relationships: more centralized countries with lower government effectiveness, freedom and societal trust, but with separate ministries of health and health ministers with medical background acted faster and more decisively. High perceived capacity might have provided false confidence to the governments, resulting in a delayed response to the early stages of the pandemic. Furthermore, more right-wing and authoritarian governments responded faster.

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Section: Political Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?

Toshkov

Carroll

Yesilkagit

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…Many factors contributed to the country's early success, including the government's prompt and proactive precautions and legislation (117/2020/ND-CP) in areas such as transportation, immigration, information dissemination, and health care (Hartley et al, 2021;Le et al, 2021;Tran et al, 2020). The Vietnamese government was exceptionally responsive in the education sector.…”

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“…Vietnam successfully contained the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) for over a year, whereas of mid-February 2021, almost one year into the global pandemic, Vietnam has kept its COVID-19 cases under 2,500 with 35 deaths (Black, 2020;Hartley et al, 2021;Tran et al, 2020;Van Nguyen et al, 2020;Vietnam's Ministry of Health, n.d). However, The COVID-19 pandemic and the shutdown of schools created disruptions in Vietnamese education, which has not been evaluated to date.…”

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Vietnam’s Success in COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Consequences to Its Higher Education?

Tran

Jordan²

2022

JCIHE

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the shutdown of schools created disruptions in Vietnamese education, which has not been evaluated to date. This paper provides an analysis of the effect of COVID-19 policies on teaching and learning in higher education in Vietnam. We first contextualize higher education in Vietnam prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We then present an analysis of the Vietnamese government’s educational policies aimed at controlling virus spread with respect to Vietnam’s inequalities of access to higher education, quality of curriculum and instruction, and institutional autonomy. Our analysis focuses on how government policies can simultaneously respond to the pandemic and moderate prior educational issues. Through this analysis, we contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the policies and highlight the challenges Vietnamese universities face in policy implementation. We conclude this paper by discussing the implications of changes made during the pandemic to comment on higher education in Vietnam post-COVID-19.

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“…By the end of August 2020, the outbreak was declared under control. During this time, public awareness and perceptions were of paramount as information of daily COVID-19 situation was broadcasted widely in all types of media [ 10 , 11 ].…”

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Using ‘infodemics’ to understand public awareness and perception of SARS-CoV-2: A longitudinal analysis of online information about COVID-19 incidence and mortality during a major outbreak in Vietnam, July—September 2020

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Background Trends in the public perception and awareness of COVID-19 over time are poorly understood. We conducted a longitudinal study to analyze characteristics and trends of online information during a major COVID-19 outbreak in Da Nang province, Vietnam in July-August 2020 to understand public awareness and perceptions during an epidemic. Methods We collected online information on COVID-19 incidence and mortality from online platforms in Vietnam between 1 July and 15 September, 2020, and assessed their trends over time against the epidemic curve. We explored the associations between engagement, sentiment polarity, and other characteristics of online information with different outbreak phases using Poisson regression and multinomial logistic regression analysis. We assessed the frequency of keywords over time, and conducted a semantic analysis of keywords using word segmentation. Results We found a close association between collected online information and the evolution of the COVID-19 situation in Vietnam. Online information generated higher engagements during compared to before the outbreak. There was a close relationship between sentiment polarity and posts’ topics: the emotional tendencies about COVID-19 mortality were significantly more negative, and more neutral or positive about COVID-19 incidence. Online newspaper reported significantly more information in negative or positive sentiment than online forums or social media. Most topics of public concern followed closely the progression of the COVID-19 situation during the outbreak: development of the global pandemic and vaccination; the unfolding outbreak in Vietnam; and the subsiding of the outbreak after two months. Conclusion This study shows how online information can reflect a public health threat in real time, and provides important insights about public awareness and perception during different outbreak phases. Our findings can help public health decision makers in Vietnam and other low and middle income countries with high internet penetration rates to design more effective communication strategies during critical phases of an epidemic.

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COVID-19 response in a unitary state: emerging lessons from Vietnam

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?

Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: what accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe?

Vietnam’s Success in COVID-19 Pandemic: What Are Consequences to Its Higher Education?

Using ‘infodemics’ to understand public awareness and perception of SARS-CoV-2: A longitudinal analysis of online information about COVID-19 incidence and mortality during a major outbreak in Vietnam, July—September 2020

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