Aggressive measures, rising inequalities, and mass formation during the COVID-19 crisis: An overview and proposed way forward

MC Schippers, JPA Ioannidis, AR Joffe - Frontiers in public health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A series of aggressive restrictive measures were adopted around the world in 2020–2022 to
attempt to prevent SARS-CoV-2 from spreading. However, it has become increasingly clear …

[HTML][HTML] Health systems resilience: is it time to revisit resilience after COVID-19?

MAC Paschoalotto, EA Lazzari, R Rocha… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The concept of health system resilience has been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even well-established health systems, considered resilient, collapsed during the pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence and persistent dominance of SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA. 2.3. 7 variant, Taiwan

PL Shao, HC Tu, YN Gong, HY Shu… - Emerging infectious …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since April 2022, waves of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases have surfaced in Taiwan
and spread throughout the island. Using high-throughput sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 …

Lessons learned and lessons missed: impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on all-cause mortality in 40 industrialised countries and US …

V Kontis, JE Bennett, RM Parks, T Rashid… - Wellcome open …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Industrialised countries had varied responses to the COVID-19 pandemic,
which may lead to different death tolls from COVID-19 and other diseases. Methods: We …

Innovative public strategies in response to COVID‐19: A review of practices from China

Y Wu, Z Cao, J Yang, X Bi, W **ong, X Feng… - Health care …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic presented unparalleled challenges to prompt and adaptive
responses from nations worldwide. This review examines China's multifaceted approach to …

What made primary health care resilient against COVID-19? A mixed-methods positive deviance study in Nigeria

R Neill, MA Peters, S Bello, MD Dairo, V Azais… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic overwhelmed some primary health
care (PHC) systems, while others adapted and recovered. In Nigeria, large, within-state …

Rationale for the shielding policy for clinically vulnerable people in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study

A Porter, A Akbari, A Carson-Stevens, J Dale… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Shielding aimed to protect those predicted to be at highest risk from COVID-19
and was uniquely implemented in the UK during the first year of the pandemic from March …

[HTML][HTML] Two years of COVID-19: many lessons, but will we learn?

DL Heymann, H Legido-Quigley - Eurosurveillance, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
It has been two years since 11 March 2020 when the Director General of the World Health
Organization announced that coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had become pandemic [1] …

Everyday capabilities were a path to resilience during COVID-19: a case study of five countries

R Neill, AH Neel, C Cardona, D Bishai… - Health policy and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
COVID-19 demanded urgent responses by all countries, with wide variations in the scope
and sustainability of those responses. Scholarship on resilience has increasingly …

Learning analysis of health system resilience

KM Thu, S Bernays, S Abimbola - Health Policy and Planning, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The emergence of 'resilience'as a concept for analysing health systems–especially in low-
and middle-income countries–has been trailed by debates on whether 'resilience'is a …