COVID-19 Special Issue
This special issue aims to provide coherent and comprehensive insights on lessons learned from the COVID-19 response, which will support policymakers while they prepare for future outbreaks but also for other health system shocks that affect the supply and demand of health services.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought immense human suffering and loss of life, resulting in an unprecedented shock to health systems all over the world. And at least initially, it also left policymakers, health professionals, and decision makers scrambling for information and ideas on how to manage its impact. To fill this gap in knowledge, in March 2020, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, WHO European Regional Office and European Commission joined together to create the COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor (HSRM).
The HSRM collected up-to-date information on how health systems in 50 countries, mainly in the WHO European Region, were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. All articles in this Special Issue are based on the content collected in the HSRM, and either focus on a topic contained in the template or compare country responses from a selection of 3 to 8 countries.
Each paper provides a synthesis of lessons learned and considers why some countries seem to have more successfully managed the pandemic while others have not, while flagging up perspectives for future research.
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
WHO TEAM
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
EDITORS
Ewout van Ginneken, Erin Webb, Anna Maresso, Jon Cylus
Reinhard Busse, Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Isabel de la Mata, Josep Figueras Ewout van Ginneken, Erin Webb, Anna Maresso, Jonathan Cylus, HSRM network Selina Rajan, Martin McKee, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Marina Karanikolos, ... Jonathan Cylus Juliane Winkelmann, Erin Webb, Gemma A. Williams, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, ... Dimitra Panteli Elke Berger, Juliane Winkelmann, Helene Eckhardt, Ulrike Nimptsch, ... Reinhard Busse Erin Webb, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Gemma Williams, Giada Scarpetti, ... Dimitra Panteli Stephanie Kumpunen, Erin Webb, Govin Permanand, Evgeny ZHELEZNYAKOV, ... Melitta Jakab Sarah Thomson, Jorge Alejandro García-Ramírez, Baktygul Akkazieva, Triin Habicht, ... Tamás Evetovits Ruth Waitzberg, Sophie Gerkens, Antoniya Dimova, Lucie Bryndová, ... Wilm Quentin Scott L. Greer, Sarah Rozenblum, Michelle Falkenbach, Olga Löblová, ... Matthias Wismar Ingrid Sperre Saunes, Karsten Vrangbæk, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Signe Smith Jervelund, ... Marina Karanikolos Lynn Unruh, Sara Allin, Greg Marchildon, Sara Burke, ... Gemma A. Williams Erin Webb, Juliane Winkelmann, Giada Scarpetti, Daiga Behmane, ... Marina Karanikolos Anna Sagan, Lucie Bryndova, Iwona Kowalska-Bobko, Martin Smatana, ... Peter Gaal Aleksandar Džakula, Maja Banadinović, Iva Lukačević Lovrenčić, Maja Vajagić, ... Bernd Rechel Ruth Waitzberg, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Francisco Estupiñán-Romero, ... Anna Maresso Andrea E. Schmidt, Sherry Merkur, Anita Haindl, Sophie Gerkens, ... Juliane Winkelmann
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