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COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis
Public health crises are the “touchstone” to test the ability of national public health crisis governance. The public health crisis in the new era presents new characteristics: systematic, cross-border and uncertainty. The governance dilemma of a public health crisis generally emphasizes the joint p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7551406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32842607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288 |
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description | Public health crises are the “touchstone” to test the ability of national public health crisis governance. The public health crisis in the new era presents new characteristics: systematic, cross-border and uncertainty. The governance dilemma of a public health crisis generally emphasizes the joint participation and communication of different subjects, which is suspected of overlapping and redundancy, and lacks the auxiliary support of major public health crisis events. It dispels the significance of government-level cooperation. The essence of the public health crisis governance system is the chain law of stimulus–response. In combination with COVID-19 development in China, we track down the main reasons for the temporary disruption and the government’s response to this major public health crisis. We mainly examine the tension between the centralization of power in China’s governance structure and the effectiveness of local governance, and the control of local governments in information disclosure. The response to a public health crisis and the optimization of a decision-making mechanism should build tension between the centralization of power and effectiveness of local governance. It is suggested that government should disclose and share information to the public timely and pay more attention to the core value of order in crisis management. |
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spelling | pubmed-75514062020-10-14 COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis Zhang, Jinrui Zhang, Ruilian Healthcare (Basel) Article Public health crises are the “touchstone” to test the ability of national public health crisis governance. The public health crisis in the new era presents new characteristics: systematic, cross-border and uncertainty. The governance dilemma of a public health crisis generally emphasizes the joint participation and communication of different subjects, which is suspected of overlapping and redundancy, and lacks the auxiliary support of major public health crisis events. It dispels the significance of government-level cooperation. The essence of the public health crisis governance system is the chain law of stimulus–response. In combination with COVID-19 development in China, we track down the main reasons for the temporary disruption and the government’s response to this major public health crisis. We mainly examine the tension between the centralization of power in China’s governance structure and the effectiveness of local governance, and the control of local governments in information disclosure. The response to a public health crisis and the optimization of a decision-making mechanism should build tension between the centralization of power and effectiveness of local governance. It is suggested that government should disclose and share information to the public timely and pay more attention to the core value of order in crisis management. MDPI 2020-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7551406/ /pubmed/32842607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Jinrui Zhang, Ruilian COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis |
title | COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis |
title_full | COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis |
title_short | COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis |
title_sort | covid-19 in china: power, transparency and governance in public health crisis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7551406/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32842607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288 |
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