The Corona crisis: a wicked problem

Schiefloe, Per Morten

doi:10.1177/1403494820970767

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“…COVID-19 is a complex, ‘wicked problem’ [ 28 ] that has to be confronted by an interdisciplinary collaborative approach. While the evidence points to what has gone wrong, we need to understand why .…”

Section: Need For Innovative System-level Interdisciplinarity To Disentangle Mechanisms Of Disease Among Migrants and To Improve Public Hmentioning

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Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health

Díaz

Mamelund²,

Eid

et al. 2021

Scand J Public Health

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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are amplified among socially vulnerable groups, including international migrants, in terms of both disease transmission and outcomes and the consequences of mitigation measures. Migrants are overrepresented in COVID-19 laboratory-confirmed cases, hospital admissions, intensive care treatment and death statistics in all countries with available data. A syndemic approach has been suggested to understand the excess burden in vulnerable populations. However, this has not stopped the unequal burden of disease in Norway. Initially, the disease was mainly imported by Norwegians returning from skiing holidays in the Alps, and the prevalence of infection among migrants in Norway, defined as people born abroad to foreign parents, was low. Later, confirmed cases in migrants increased and have remained stable at 35–50% – more than twice the proportion of the migrant population (15%). To change this pattern, we need to understand the complex mechanisms underlying inequities in health and their relative and multiplying impacts on disease inequalities and to test the effect of counterfactual policies in order to reduce inequalities in disease burden. Yet, the current paradigm in the field of migration and health research, that is, the theories, research methods and explanatory models commonly applied, fail to fully understand the differences in health outcomes between international migrants and the host population. Here, we use the Norwegian situation as a case to explain the need for an innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach at a global level.

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Section: Need For Innovative System-level Interdisciplinarity To Disentangle Mechanisms Of Disease Among Migrants and To Improve Public Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health

Díaz

Mamelund²,

Eid

et al. 2021

Scand J Public Health

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“…The COVID-19 crisis has been characterised as a wicked problem by Per Morten Schiefloe (2021) based on Rittel and Webber's (1973) and Levin et al (2012). Wicked problems are defined by Churchman (1967) as "a class of social problems, which are ill-formulated; where the information is confusing; where there are many clients and decision makers with conflicting values; and where the ramifications in the whole system are thoroughly confusing" (as cited in McMillan & Overall, 2016, p. 36).…”

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Corporate Decisions to Contribute to Non-State Social Protection in Ghana Within the Covid-19 Context

Baah

2022

International Scientific Conference „Business and Management“

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In 2020, the private sector in Ghana established the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund to pool resources to, among others, construct the country’s first infectious disease centre in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This research aims to: (a) identify the factors that enabled the decisions of private corporate managers to contribute to non-state social protection through the Fund; and (b) explore how wise their decisions to contribute to non-state social protection through the Fund are. Methodology: Content analysis and semi-structured interviews were performed. Conclusion: Based on the factors identified in this research, the decisions of the private sector to establish and contribute to the Fund were informed by wisdom. The research validates the wise management decision-making model and the assertion that managers need to take decision based on wisdom when they are confronted with wicked problems.

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“…Crises are then managed or contained, enabling those in their path to return to established routines. On the other hand, super crises are dislocating (Christensen et al, 2019) and like super wicked problems (Lazarus, 2008) and gather momentum over time (Schiefloe, 2020), remaining challenging to manage or contain (Moon, 2020). As noted in Table 1, the crisis is managed as tenets guide the containment with best practices learnt, recognized and practiced in similar preexisting crises.…”

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COVID-19 as a super crisis: implications for place management

Wexler

Oberlander

2021

JPMD

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate COVID-19 as a super crisis in the design and management of places. Design/methodology/approach This theory-driven work outlines why and how, by treating COVID-19 as a super crisis, the immunological view rises in priority and swiftly ushers in short- and long-term implications for space design and place management. Findings First, this paper looks at the short-term impact of COVID-19 upon space and place management in addressing how porous bubbling, stippling and flexible curtaining respond to immediate retrofitting needs during the pandemic. Using the concept of COVID-19-induced collective trauma, this paper draws attention to health-care facilities, schools, workplaces, commercial buildings and public outdoor spaces. These sites require short-term improvisation in place and space design and will, where the collective trauma of COVID-19 leaves strong traces, require long-term redesign and rethinking. Social implications As a super crisis, COVID-19 generates contradictions in the existing trend in space and place studies from the notion of space and place as a container to one focusing on “flow.” A focus on flow highlights a focus on space and place as adaptable to changes in flow, especially as augmented and mediated by technology. Originality/value This treatment of COVID-19 as a super crisis is intended to stimulate the design and management of spaces and places in the post-COVID-19 period.

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The Corona crisis: a wicked problem

Cited by 34 publications

References 12 publications

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health

Corporate Decisions to Contribute to Non-State Social Protection in Ghana Within the Covid-19 Context

COVID-19 as a super crisis: implications for place management

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