Crippled community governance and suppressed scientific/professional communities: a critical assessment of failed early warning for the COVID-19 outbreak in China

Gu, Edward; Li, Lantian

doi:10.1080/23812346.2020.1740468

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“…Successful governance is only possible with a competent early warning system, efficient analysis of the situation, and the interpretation, sharing, and use of relevant knowledge and information (26). Public health instructions should be established based on scientific evidence to reduce the anxiety and distress caused by misinformation and rumors.…”

Section: Role Of Governance and Risk Communication To Reduce Societalmentioning

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“…The accelerating spread of COVID-19 and its outcomes around the world has led people to experiencing fear, panic, concern, anxiety, stigma, depression, racism, and xenophobia (8). Bangladesh confirmed their first COVID-19 case on the 8th of March 2020 (9), followed by a nationwide lockdown from 26 March which had been extended several times until 30th May 2020 to prevent human transmission. The government deployed armed forces to facilitate social distancing on March 24th.…”

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Psychosocial and Socio-Economic Crisis in Bangladesh Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perception-Based Assessment

Bodrud-Doza

Shammi

Bahlman

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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Background: The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the partial lockdown, the disease intensity, weak governance in the healthcare system, insufficient medical facilities, unawareness, and the sharing of misinformation in the mass media has led to people experiencing fear and anxiety. The present study intended to conduct a perceptionbased analysis to get an idea of people's psychosocial and socioeconomic crisis, and the possible environmental crisis, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Methods: A perception-based questionnaire was put online for Bangladeshi citizens of 18 years and/or older. The sample size was 1,066 respondents. Datasets were analyzed through a set of statistical techniques including principal component and hierarchical cluster analysis. Results: There was a positive significant association between fear of the COVID-19 outbreak with the struggling healthcare system (p < 0.05) of the country. Also, there was a negative association between the fragile health system of Bangladesh and the government's ability to deal with the pandemic (p < 0.05), revealing the poor governance in the healthcare system. A positive association of shutdown and social distancing with the fear of losing one's own or a family members' life, influenced by a lack of healthcare treatment (p < 0.05), reveals that, due to the decision of shutting down normal activities, people may be experiencing mental and economic stress. However, a positive association of the socioeconomic impact of the shutdown with poor people's suffering, the price hike of basic essentials, the hindering of formal education (p < 0.05), and the possibility of a severe socioeconomic and health crisis will be aggravated. Moreover, there is a possibility of a climate change-induced disaster and infectious diseases like dengue during/after the COVID-19 situation, which will create severe food insecurity (p < 0.01) and a further healthcare crisis. Conclusions: The partial lockdown in Bangladesh due to the COVID-19 pandemic increased community transmission and worsened the healthcare crisis, economic burden, and loss of GDP despite the resuming of industrial operations. In society, it Bodrud-Doza et al. Psychosocial and SocioEconomic Crisis of COVID-19 has created psychosocial and socioeconomic insecurity among people due to the loss of lives and livelihoods. The government should take proper inclusive steps for risk assessment, communications, and financial stimulus toward the public to alleviate their fear and anxiety, and to take proper action to boost mental health and well-being.

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Section: Role Of Governance and Risk Communication To Reduce Societalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial and Socio-Economic Crisis in Bangladesh Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perception-Based Assessment

Bodrud-Doza

Shammi

Bahlman

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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“…Social work scholars should learn the lesson from public health colleagues in the bargain of governance and science. In the case of COVID-19, the public health system's failure of communicating the outbreak of the disease at the initial stage is a princely alarm (Gu & Li, 2020). Emphasis on policy impact should never be too much.…”

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A reflection on the current China social work education in the combat with COVID-19

Yuan

Duan

2020

Social Work Education

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The status of social work education in China Social work education in mainland China (hereafter, China) has experienced a short but fast-developing history. The current social work education programs in China have been introduced and established in four universities in 1988 by learning the experience from Hong Kong and Western counties (Ngai, 1996). By the end of 2018, 82 vocational colleges have social work programs, 348 universities provided BSW programs, 150 universities and institutes have MSW programs, and 17 social work Ph.D. programs were developed, educating more than 1,240,000 social work professionals (Ministry of Civil Affairs [MoCA], 2019). Under the context of social and economic transformation, social work education in China has taken the responsibility to build the professional workforce to resolve complex social problems at multiple levels. COVID-19 crisis and social work education in China The Outbreak of COVID-19 On 27 December 2019, less than a month before the Chinese Lunar New Year, a cluster of pneumonia cases caused by an unknown pathogen was reported in Wuhan, a city of 11 million inhabitants and the largest transport hub in Central China. By the end of 31 May 1983,017 patients were diagnosed with the COVID-19 and 4,634 had died (State Council Information Office, 2020). In the absence of vaccines and antivirals, traditional public health outbreak response tactics of isolation, quarantine, social distancing, and community containment have been adopted in China. Although these types of actions have proven to be effective in the past, they have never been executed on such a large scale (Wu & McGoogan, 2020). On 20 January 2020, the National Health Commission of People's Republic of China posted an announcement to 'incorporate pneumonia infected by the new coronavirus into Category B infectious diseases as prescribed in the Law of the People's Republic of CONTACT Xuesong He

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“…A significant positive association was found among the governance and political issues (GPI1 with GPI2, GPI3) and socioeconomic issues (SEI2) (p<0.01), implying that seriousness of Government's decision to lockdown activities was on proper time and that it enhanced the capacity of Government to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak ( Table-2). Successful governance is only possible with a competent early warning system, efficient analysis of the situation, interpretation, sharing, and use of relevant knowledge and information (Gu & Li, 2020). Public health instruction should be established on scientific evidence to reduce the anxiety and distress caused by misinformation and rumours.…”

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<strong>Psychosocial, and Socio-Economic Crisis in Bangladesh due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perception-Based Assessment</strong>

Shammi¹,

Bodrud-Doza²,

Islam³

et al. 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic situation, disease intensity, weak healthcare facilities, unawareness, and misinformation led people to fear and anxiety in Bangladesh. This study intended to get peoples’ perception on psychosocial, socio-economic and environmental crisis amidst the pandemi. An online questionnaire was surveyed nationwide (respondents no.1066). Datasets were analyzed through the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), hierarchical Cluster Analysis (CA), Pearson’s correlation matrix (PCM), Linear regression analysis (LRA), and psychometric characteristics were included in the Classical Test Theory (CTT) analysis. There were good associations among the psychosocial, socio-economic and environmental parameters. A significant association between fear of COVID-19 with struggling healthcare system (p<0.05) was found. Also, negative association between fragile health system and government’s ability to deal with the pandemic (p<0.05) revealing poor governance. Again, a positive association of shutdown and social distancing with fear of losing life, and due to lack of health treatment (p<0.05) reveals that shut down hampers normal activities which may lead to mental and economic stress. However, a positive association of socio-economic impact of the shutdown with poor people’s suffering, the price hike of basic need, hamper of formal education (p<0.05) may lead to severe socio-economic and health crisis. There is a possibility of climate-induced disaster during/after the pandemic, which will create severe food insecurity (p<0.01). Daily wage earners and poors will suffer most by food and nutritional deficiency, and the country may face huge economic burden. Proper risk assessment and communications is needed to alleviate fear and anxiety. Thus, financial support and mental boosting is required.

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Crippled community governance and suppressed scientific/professional communities: a critical assessment of failed early warning for the COVID-19 outbreak in China

Cited by 49 publications

References 28 publications

Psychosocial and Socio-Economic Crisis in Bangladesh Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perception-Based Assessment

Psychosocial and Socio-Economic Crisis in Bangladesh Due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perception-Based Assessment

A reflection on the current China social work education in the combat with COVID-19

<strong>Psychosocial, and Socio-Economic Crisis in Bangladesh due to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perception-Based Assessment</strong>

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