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COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM)

The COVID-19 Health Systems Response Monitor (HSRM) contains information on how countries’ health systems responded to the pandemic between 2020 and early 2022. The Archive of individual country evidence is complemented by cross-country comparative Analyses which synthesise policy responses to key challenges presented by the crisis and point the way to building better-prepared and more resilient health systems.

 

Cyprus

Policy Responses

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  1. Country Overview

  2. Policy Responses

    1. 1. Preventing transmission

      Updated: 01 June 2022
      1. 1.0. Introduction
      2. 1.1. Health communication

        Updated: 05 December 2020
      3. 1.2. Physical distancing

        Updated: 01 June 2022
      4. 1.3. Isolation and quarantine

        Updated: 15 May 2022
      5. 1.4. Monitoring and surveillance

        Updated: 11 April 2022
      6. 1.5. Testing

        Updated: 15 May 2022
    2. 2. Ensuring sufficient physical infrastructure and workforce capacity

      Updated: 13 May 2021
      1. 2.0. Introduction
      2. 2.1. Physical infrastructure

        Updated: 01 March 2021
      3. 2.2. Workforce

        Updated: 13 May 2021
    3. 3. Providing health services effectively

      Updated: 21 May 2022
      1. 3.0. Introduction
      2. 3.1. Planning services

        Updated: 21 May 2022
      3. 3.2. Managing cases

        Updated: 30 March 2022
      4. 3.3. Maintaining essential services

        Updated: 01 January 2022
    4. 4. Paying for services

      Updated: 01 January 2021
      1. 4.0. Introduction
      2. 4.1. Health financing

        Updated: 01 January 2021
      3. 4.2. Entitlement and coverage

        Updated: 30 April 2020
    5. 5. Governance

      Updated: 04 April 2022
      1. 5.1. Governance

        Updated: 04 April 2022
    6. 6. Measures in other sectors

      Updated: 09 January 2021
      1. 6.1. Measures in other sectors

        Updated: 09 January 2021
Gemma Williams

Latest cross-country analysis

Cross-country analysis of health system responses and key policy lessons, including:

  • How do the COVID-19 testing criteria differ across countries?
  • How are countries creating extra bed and ICU capacity?
  • How are countries keeping the rest of the health system operating?

 

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Authors

  • Elena Gabriel
  • Marios Kantaris
  • Chrystalla Charalampous
  • Mamas Theodorou

Editors

Gemma Williams

Research Fellow

Biography

Gemma is a member of the Observatory’s London hub and is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  

She conducts comparative health systems research, focusing primarily on the health workforce, health financing policy, health inequalities, healthy ageing, digital health and migration and health. Her work on these topics has covered a number of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Gemma is an author and editor of Observatory studies, policy briefs, rapid responses and for the State of Health in the EU programme, alongside covering health system and policy developments in Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom. She is also co-editor of Eurohealth, the Observatory’s quarterly journal. 

Before joining the Observatory, Gemma worked as a Research Officer at LSE Health and as an ODI Fellow Health Economist in the Rwandan Ministry of Health. 

Recent publications

1. Williams GA, Liede S, Fahy N, Aittomaki K, Perola M, Helander T, McKee M, Sagan A. Regulating the unknown: A guide to regulating genomics for health policy-makers. Health Systems and Policy Analysis Series. Policy Brief 38. Copenhagen: World Health Organization 2021 (acting as the host organization for, and secretariat of, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies).  

2.  Williams GA, Jacob G, Rakovac I, Scotter C, Wismar M. Health professional mobility in the WHO European Region and the WHO Global Code of Practice: data from the joint OECD/EUROSTAT/WHO-Europe questionnaire. European Journal of Public Health. 2020; 30(4): iv5–iv11. 

3.  Williams GA, Cylus J, Roubal T, Ong P, Barber S. Sustainable health financing with an ageing population: Will population ageing lead to uncontrolled health expenditure growth? Economics of Health and Active Ageing Series. Copenhagen: World Health Organization 2019 (acting as the host organization for, and secretariat of, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies). 


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