How Governance Shapes Emergency Management: China's Mixed Records in Responding to COVID-19

Wen, Bo; Tang, Shui-Yan; Tao, Lei

doi:10.22140/cpar.v11i2.235

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“…Long lines of patients queuing for treatment led to contagion, with other Wuhan residents rushing for treatment before medical resources were exhausted [ 69 ]. A lack of government sourced COVID-19 information was a key element in the run on Wuhan’s medical resources [ 70 ].…”

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The COVID-19 Run on Medical Resources in Wuhan China: Causes, Consequences and Lessons

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The COVID-19 run on medical resources crashed Wuhan’s medical care system, a medical disaster duplicated in many countries facing the COVID-19 pandemic. In a novel approach to understanding the run on Wuhan’s medical resources, we draw from bank run theory to analyze the causes and consequences of the COVID-19 run on Wuhan’s medical resources and recommend policy changes and government actions to attenuate runs on medical resources in the future. Like bank runs, the cause of the COVID-19 medical resource run was rooted in China’s local medical resource context and a sudden realignment of expectations, reflecting shortages and misallocations of hospital resources (inadequate liquidity and portfolio composition); high level hospitals siphoning-off patients from lower level health providers (bank moral hazard and adverse selection problem); patients selecting high-level hospitals over lower-level health care (depositor moral hazard problem); inadequate government oversight and uncontrolled risky hospital behavior (inadequate bank regulatory control); biased medical insurance schemes (inadequate depositor insurance); and failure to provide medical resource reserves (failure as lender of last resort). From Wuhan’s COVID-19 run on medical resources, we recommend that control and reform by government enlarge medical resource supply, improve the capacity of primary medical care, ensure timely virus information, formulate principles for the allocation of medical resources that suit a country’s national conditions, optimize the medical insurance schemes and public health fund allocations and enhance the emergency support of medical resources.

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“…The readers who are interested in this content could choose to read it in this way, so the reading conversion rate will also rise. Chinese governments at all levels are the policy makers and implementors of the prevention and control of the pandemic, which are their functions [75,76]. The government is the information source for news, data statistics, and measures that have been implemented for pandemic control and is the agent of emergency response and the initiator of risk communication [77].…”

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Emergency Response and Risk Communication Effects of Local Media during COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Study Based on a Social Media Network

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Huang

Cheng

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As the country where the COVID-19 was first reported and initially broke out, China has controlled the spread of the pandemic well. The pandemic prevention process included emergency response and risk communication, both of which could notably increase public participation, people’s anxiety has been alleviated, their confidence in the government has been enhanced, and the implementation of prevention and control measures has been understood. This study selected 157,283 articles published by 447 accounts across 326 cities in February 2020 from WeChat, the largest social media application in China, to systematically compare the spatial distributions in the effectiveness of emergency responses and risk communication. The results showed that there were significant regional differences in the effectiveness of emergency response and risk communication during the pandemic period in China. The effectiveness of emergency response and risk communication are related to the exposure risk to the COVID-19, the level of economy, culture, and education of the region, the type of accounts and articles, and the ranking of the articles in posts. The timeliness and distribution types of articles should take into account the psychological changes in communication recipients to avoid the dissemination of homogenized information to the masses and the resulting information receiving fatigue period.

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Rethinking local and regional governance in China: An institutional design and development perspective

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2021

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How Governance Shapes Emergency Management: China's Mixed Records in Responding to COVID-19

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The COVID-19 Run on Medical Resources in Wuhan China: Causes, Consequences and Lessons

The COVID-19 Run on Medical Resources in Wuhan China: Causes, Consequences and Lessons

Emergency Response and Risk Communication Effects of Local Media during COVID-19 Pandemic in China: A Study Based on a Social Media Network

Rethinking local and regional governance in China: An institutional design and development perspective

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