The Chinese Government's Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns.

Yuxi He,Xiaojun Zhang,Ruishi Yang,Qi Li,Jing Lin,Qixi Zhong,Maorui Li

doi:10.3390/healthcare9081020

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https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9081020

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Journal: Healthcare	Publication Date: Aug 8, 2021
Citations: 4	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Fuzhou University, Renmin University of China

Abstract

(1) Background: The governance measures that governments deploy vary substantially across countries and even within countries; there is, however, limited knowledge of the responses of local governments or from different areas in the same country. (2) Methods: By using grounded theory and an automatic text processing method, this study analyses the pandemic governance measures, the pandemic governance pattern, and possible factors across 28 provinces in mainland China based on the text of 28 official provincial government Sina microblogs dating from 20 January to 1 July 2020. (3) Results and discussion: The provincial pandemic governance patterns in China are divided into a pathogen-control pattern, a diagnosis and treatment consolidation pattern, a balanced promotion pattern, a quick-adjustment response pattern, and a recovery-oriented pattern. The pandemic severity, economic development, public health service, and population structure may all have an impact on pandemic governance measures. (4) Conclusions: The conclusions of this study may help us to reconstruct governance systems related to global public health emergencies from the perspective of normalisation, as well as providing important clarification for management and a reference for countries seeking to curb the global spread of a pandemic.

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The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in December 2019 and spread globally to become a worldwide health threat by March 2020
This study advances research on the pandemic governance measures implemented in Chinese provincial governments and offers a summary of regional governments’ overall pandemic governance patterns
It tracks the evolution of regional government responses, analysing the differences between the regional government responses by measuring the extent and intensity of 23 measures adopted by every provincial government

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The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in December 2019 and spread globally to become a worldwide health threat by March 2020. As the most serious public health emergency in recent decades [1,2], COVID-19 has caused a major health crisis. The. COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis but rather a crisis that has affected every sector, including the economy, politics, and society. COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis but rather a crisis that has affected every sector, including the economy, politics, and society It has prompted the worst global recession in nearly a century [4]. The WHO anticipates that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lengthy duration [5] and has called upon all countries, international organisations, the private sector, charities, and individuals to contribute to containment efforts [6]

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