"Everything was much more dynamic": Temporality of health system responses to Covid-19 in Colombia.

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of temporality in the negotiation of unplanned adaptive tasks that were part of the health system response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Colombia. While research has been carried out on the temporal aspects of emergency preparedness, we argue that there is an empirical gap concerning how health care organizations responded with temporal urgency to Covid-19. The dataset (118 interviews) from which a subset of interviews were analysed for this paper was collected during the first wave of the pandemic in Colombia in 2020. Interviewees included representatives of national and regional governments, public hospitals and private clinic managers, clinicians, including physicians and nurses, laboratory directors, and academics. Narratives of two tasks are presented: recon

SUBMITTER: Turner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11426449 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature