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Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan
Amid the global pandemic of a novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), healthcare delivery system is being stretched. In Japan, rapid spread of the epidemic brings hospitals to the brink of exhaustion. This commentary aims to briefly review related policies of Japan in managing healthcare delivery...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7220603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32432167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41256-020-00149-0 |
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description | Amid the global pandemic of a novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), healthcare delivery system is being stretched. In Japan, rapid spread of the epidemic brings hospitals to the brink of exhaustion. This commentary aims to briefly review related policies of Japan in managing healthcare delivery system. Among the relevant actions, strengthening the hospitalized care is emphasized to save lives. Despite of limitations, the policies show a success in preventing a collapse of healthcare delivery system and skyrocketing mortality from happening so far. On the other hand, huge concerns remain if the infections continue to rapidly increase. The experience in Japan indicates the urgency of planning of healthcare delivery system, mobilizing all relevant social sectors by consensus, and guiding people with calm manner based on the best shared knowledge and evidences. |
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spelling | pubmed-72206032020-05-14 Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan Gai, Ruoyan Tobe, Makoto Glob Health Res Policy Commentary Amid the global pandemic of a novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), healthcare delivery system is being stretched. In Japan, rapid spread of the epidemic brings hospitals to the brink of exhaustion. This commentary aims to briefly review related policies of Japan in managing healthcare delivery system. Among the relevant actions, strengthening the hospitalized care is emphasized to save lives. Despite of limitations, the policies show a success in preventing a collapse of healthcare delivery system and skyrocketing mortality from happening so far. On the other hand, huge concerns remain if the infections continue to rapidly increase. The experience in Japan indicates the urgency of planning of healthcare delivery system, mobilizing all relevant social sectors by consensus, and guiding people with calm manner based on the best shared knowledge and evidences. BioMed Central 2020-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7220603/ /pubmed/32432167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41256-020-00149-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Gai, Ruoyan Tobe, Makoto Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan |
title | Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan |
title_full | Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan |
title_fullStr | Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan |
title_short | Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan |
title_sort | managing healthcare delivery system to fight the covid-19 epidemic: experience in japan |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7220603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32432167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41256-020-00149-0 |
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