Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ginneken, Ewout van; Webb, Erin; Maresso, Anna; Cylus, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.04.004

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“…This is to acknowledge the contributions of individuals, institutions, and agencies upon which the authors were able to draw from for the article at hand. These can be found in Van Ginneken et al (6).…”

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“…To fill this information gap and gain an understanding of effective policies that countries rolled out to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) was developed by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe), and European Commission, to cover 50 countries' health systems and policy responses, primarily those in the WHO European Region (5). The HSRM was launched in March 2020 and remained operational and regularly updated well into 2022 (6). Although the focus was primarily on health system responses, the HSRM also captured wider public health initiatives on preventing transmission as well as relevant responses in other sectors, such as border controls, mobility and economy, amongst others (Table 1 and update posts for their respective countries.…”

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Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

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Ginneken

Winkelmann

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionDecision-makers initially had limited data to inform their policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research community developed several online databases to track cases, deaths, and hospitalizations; however, a major deficiency was the lack of detailed information on how health systems were responding to the pandemic and how they would need to be transformed going forward.ApproachIn an effort to fill this information gap, in March 2020, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the WHO European Regional Office and the European Commission created the COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) to collect and organise up-to-date information on how health systems, mainly in the WHO European Region, were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe HSRM analysis and broader Observatory work on COVID-19 shone light on a range of health system challenges and weaknesses and catalogued policy options countries put in place during the pandemic to address these. Countries prioritised policies on investing in public health, supporting the workforce, maintaining financial stability, and strengthening governance in their response to COVID-19.OutlookCOVID-19 is likely to continue to impact health systems for the foreseeable future; the ability to cope with this pressure, and other shocks, depends on having good information on what other countries have done so that health systems develop adequate policy options. In support of this, the country information on the COVID-19 HSRM will remain available as a repository to inform decision makers on options for actions and possible measures against COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. Building on its previous work on health systems resilience, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies will sustain its focus on analysing key issues related to the recovery from the pandemic and making health systems more resilient. This includes policy knowledge transfer between countries and systematic resilience testing, aiming at contributing to an improved understanding of health system response, recovery, and preparedness.Contribution to the literature in non-technical languageThe COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM) was the first database in the WHO European Region to collect and organise up-to-date information on how health systems were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The HSRM provides a repository of policies which can be used to inform decision makers in health and other policy domains on options for action and possible measures against COVID-19 and other public health emergencies. This initiative proved particularly valuable, especially during the early phases of the pandemic, when there was limited information for countries to draw on as they formulated their own policy response to the pandemic. Our perspectives paper highlights some key challenges within health systems that the HSRM was able to identify during the pandemic and considers policy options countries put in place in response. Our research contributes to literature on emergency responses and recovery, health systems performance assessment, particularly health system resilience, and showcases the Observatory experience on how to design such a data collection tool, as well as how to leverage its findings to support cross-country learning.

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Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

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Winkelmann

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“…It is difficult to tell. While literature is emerging about effects of COVID-19 measures, impact studies are still at early stages (e.g., focused on the need for coordination of actors 87 , 88 ) and population health outcome data are not yet available as linked to specific measures.…”

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Laws, Policies, and Collective Agreements Protecting Low-wage and Digital Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary describes and compares shifting employment and occupational health social protections of low-wage workers, including self-employed digital platform workers. Through a focus on eight advanced economy countries, this paper identifies how employment misclassification and definitions of employees were handled in law and policy. Debates about minimum wage and occupational health and safety standards as they relate to worker well-being are considered. Finally, we discuss promising changes introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic that protect the health of low-wage and self-employed workers. Overall, we describe an ongoing “haves” and a “have not” divide, with on the one extreme, traditional job arrangements with good work-and-health social protections and, on the other extreme, low-wage and self-employed digital platform workers who are mostly left out of schemes. However, during the pandemic small and often temporary gains occurred and are discussed.

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“…On January 30, 2020, the Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported its first case of COVID-19, a novel respiratory disease first identified in Wuhan, China, that is caused by the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (Xie et al, 2020; Zhu et al, 2020; Guan et al, 2020; Reis et al, 2022). With widespread human-to-human transmission, the virus is highly contagious, and the COVID-19 pandemic became a global concern of historic proportions (van Ginneken et al, 2022; Siddiqui, Alhamdi & Alghamdi, 2022; Sachs et al, 2022; Cassell et al, 2022). As of April 5, 2023, there have been 4,082,418 confirmed cases and 66,390 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 reported by the DOH throughout the archipelago (www.covid19.gov.ph).…”

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Interrogating Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Intent During the National Vaccine Rollout in the Philippines

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Dimaano,

Sagolili

et al. 2024

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To mitigate the unprecedented health, social, and economic damage of COVID-19, the Philippines implemented a nation-wide vaccine program to mitigate the effects of the global pandemic. In a previous study, we interrogated COVID-19 vaccine intent in the country by deploying a nationwide open-access online survey, two months before the initial rollout of the national vaccination program that began in March of 2021. In this follow-up study, we explored the influence of the ongoing vaccine rollout on vaccine intent by deploying a similar survey six months after the initial rollout of vaccines had begun throughout the archipelago. Our data suggests that the presence of vaccines and vaccinated individuals in a Filipino community predicts vaccination intent. When directly asked if they were more willing to receive a vaccination than six months prior, 92.26% agreed to some extent that they were indeed more willing. Finally, despite the changes in the numbers of respondents who were more open to the COVID-19 vaccines, there were no significant changes in the predictive power of our Health Belief Model (HBM) constructs. For the most part, the HBM factors that predicted vaccination intent in our earlier study also predicted vaccination intent in this current study.

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Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

Perspective: Lessons from COVID-19 of countries in the European region in light of findings from the health system response monitor

Laws, Policies, and Collective Agreements Protecting Low-wage and Digital Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Interrogating Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Intent During the National Vaccine Rollout in the Philippines

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