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An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada
OBJECTIVES: This paper presents an overview and comparative analysis of the epidemiological situation and the policy responses in France, Belgium, and Canada during the early stages of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic (Feb.-Aug. 2020). These three countries are compared because they represent a spectrum o...
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Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.09.002 |
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author | Desson, Zachary Weller, Emmi McMeekin, Peter Ammi, Mehdi |
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description | OBJECTIVES: This paper presents an overview and comparative analysis of the epidemiological situation and the policy responses in France, Belgium, and Canada during the early stages of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic (Feb.-Aug. 2020). These three countries are compared because they represent a spectrum of different governance structures while also being OECD nations that are similar in many other respects. METHODS: A rapid review of primary data from the three countries was conducted. Data was collected from official government documents whenever possible, supplemented by information from international databases and local media reports. The data was then analysed to identify common patterns as well as significant divergences across the three countries, especially in the areas of health policy and technology use. RESULTS: France, Belgium and Canada faced differing epidemiological situations during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the wide variety of policy actions taken appears to be linked to existing governance and healthcare structures. The varying degrees of federalism and regional autonomy across the three countries highlight the different constraints faced by national policy-makers within different governance models. CONCLUSIONS: The actions taken by all three countries appear to have been largely dictated by existing health system capacity, with increasing federalism associated with more fragmented strategies and less coordination across jurisdictions. However, the implications of certain policies related to economic resilience and health system capacity cannot yet be fully evaluated and may even prove to have net negative impacts into the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-78322342021-01-26 An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada Desson, Zachary Weller, Emmi McMeekin, Peter Ammi, Mehdi Health Policy Technol Article OBJECTIVES: This paper presents an overview and comparative analysis of the epidemiological situation and the policy responses in France, Belgium, and Canada during the early stages of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic (Feb.-Aug. 2020). These three countries are compared because they represent a spectrum of different governance structures while also being OECD nations that are similar in many other respects. METHODS: A rapid review of primary data from the three countries was conducted. Data was collected from official government documents whenever possible, supplemented by information from international databases and local media reports. The data was then analysed to identify common patterns as well as significant divergences across the three countries, especially in the areas of health policy and technology use. RESULTS: France, Belgium and Canada faced differing epidemiological situations during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the wide variety of policy actions taken appears to be linked to existing governance and healthcare structures. The varying degrees of federalism and regional autonomy across the three countries highlight the different constraints faced by national policy-makers within different governance models. CONCLUSIONS: The actions taken by all three countries appear to have been largely dictated by existing health system capacity, with increasing federalism associated with more fragmented strategies and less coordination across jurisdictions. However, the implications of certain policies related to economic resilience and health system capacity cannot yet be fully evaluated and may even prove to have net negative impacts into the future. Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7832234/ /pubmed/33520640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.09.002 Text en © 2020 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Desson, Zachary Weller, Emmi McMeekin, Peter Ammi, Mehdi An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada |
title | An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada |
title_full | An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada |
title_fullStr | An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada |
title_short | An analysis of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Belgium, and Canada |
title_sort | analysis of the policy responses to the covid-19 pandemic in france, belgium, and canada |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7832234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.09.002 |
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