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Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic
This paper explores and compares health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in the context of existing governance features. Content compiled in the Covid-19 Health System Response Monitor combined with other publicly available country informatio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8418563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34629202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.08.011 |
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author | Saunes, Ingrid Sperre Vrangbæk, Karsten Byrkjeflot, Haldor Jervelund, Signe Smith Birk, Hans Okkels Tynkkynen, Liina-Kaisa Keskimäki, Ilmo Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg Janlöv, Nils Ramsberg, Joakim Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina Merkur, Sherry Sagan, Anna Karanikolos, Marina |
author_facet | Saunes, Ingrid Sperre Vrangbæk, Karsten Byrkjeflot, Haldor Jervelund, Signe Smith Birk, Hans Okkels Tynkkynen, Liina-Kaisa Keskimäki, Ilmo Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg Janlöv, Nils Ramsberg, Joakim Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina Merkur, Sherry Sagan, Anna Karanikolos, Marina |
author_sort | Saunes, Ingrid Sperre |
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description | This paper explores and compares health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in the context of existing governance features. Content compiled in the Covid-19 Health System Response Monitor combined with other publicly available country information serve as the foundation for this analysis. The analysis mainly covers early response until August 2020, but includes some key policy and epidemiological developments up until December 2020. Our findings suggest that despite the many similarities in adopted policy measures, the five countries display differences in implementation as well as outcomes. Declaration of state of emergency has differed in the Nordic region, whereas the emphasis on specialist advisory agencies in the decision-making process is a common feature. There may be differences in how respective populations complied with the recommended measures, and we suggest that other structural and circumstantial factors may have an important role in variations in outcomes across the Nordic countries. The high incidence rates among migrant populations and temporary migrant workers, as well as differences in working conditions are important factors to explore further. An important question for future research is how the COVID-19 epidemic will influence legislation and key principles of governance in the Nordic countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-84185632021-09-07 Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic Saunes, Ingrid Sperre Vrangbæk, Karsten Byrkjeflot, Haldor Jervelund, Signe Smith Birk, Hans Okkels Tynkkynen, Liina-Kaisa Keskimäki, Ilmo Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg Janlöv, Nils Ramsberg, Joakim Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina Merkur, Sherry Sagan, Anna Karanikolos, Marina Health Policy Article This paper explores and compares health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, in the context of existing governance features. Content compiled in the Covid-19 Health System Response Monitor combined with other publicly available country information serve as the foundation for this analysis. The analysis mainly covers early response until August 2020, but includes some key policy and epidemiological developments up until December 2020. Our findings suggest that despite the many similarities in adopted policy measures, the five countries display differences in implementation as well as outcomes. Declaration of state of emergency has differed in the Nordic region, whereas the emphasis on specialist advisory agencies in the decision-making process is a common feature. There may be differences in how respective populations complied with the recommended measures, and we suggest that other structural and circumstantial factors may have an important role in variations in outcomes across the Nordic countries. The high incidence rates among migrant populations and temporary migrant workers, as well as differences in working conditions are important factors to explore further. An important question for future research is how the COVID-19 epidemic will influence legislation and key principles of governance in the Nordic countries. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-05 2021-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8418563/ /pubmed/34629202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.08.011 Text en © 2021 The Authors 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 Saunes, Ingrid Sperre Vrangbæk, Karsten Byrkjeflot, Haldor Jervelund, Signe Smith Birk, Hans Okkels Tynkkynen, Liina-Kaisa Keskimäki, Ilmo Sigurgeirsdóttir, Sigurbjörg Janlöv, Nils Ramsberg, Joakim Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina Merkur, Sherry Sagan, Anna Karanikolos, Marina Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
title | Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
title_full | Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
title_fullStr | Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
title_short | Nordic responses to Covid-19: Governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
title_sort | nordic responses to covid-19: governance and policy measures in the early phases of the pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8418563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34629202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.08.011 |
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