Responses to COVID-19: The role of governance, healthcare infrastructure, and learning from past pandemics.

ABSTRACT: The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has revealed vulnerabilities in global healthcare responses. Research in epidemiology has focused on understanding the effects of countries' responses on COVID-19 spread. While a growing body of research has focused on understanding the role of macro-level factors on responses to COVID-19, we have a limited understanding of what drives countries' responses to COVID-19. We lean on organizational learning theory and the extant literature on rare events to propose that governance structure, investment in healthcare infrastructure, and learning from past pandemics influence a country's response regarding reactive and proactive strategies. With data collected from various sources and using an empirical methodology, we find that centralized governance positively aff

SUBMITTER: Sharma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7834581 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature