From Uncoordinated Patchworks to a Coordinated System: MERS-CoV to COVID-19 in Korea

Kim, Yushim; Oh, Seong Soo; Wang, Chan

doi:10.1177/0275074020942414

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“…South Korea has been recognized as an example to emulate in terms of promptly established pre-ventive measures against the pandemic. 44 Moreover, the survey was conducted a year after the outbreak, by which time systemic changes had already been settled. Therefore, anxiety reactions might not have had actual effects on public workers' performance.…”

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Mediating Effect of Public Service Motivation and Resilience on the Association Between Work-Related Stress and Work Engagement of Public Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jeong

Cho

Kim

et al. 2022

Psychiatry Investig

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Objective We aimed to explore the influence of public workers’ distress or viral anxiety on their level of depression and work engagement during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Additionally, we ascertain the mediation effect of resilience and public service motivation on this association.Methods A total of 300 public workers participated in this online survey. Their demographic characteristics and responses to survey items were collected using the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics–6 items Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire–9 items Scale, the Public Service Motivation (PSM) Scale, the Nine-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, the Korean Occupational Stress Scale–Short Form, and the Brief Resilience Scale.Results Work engagement of public workers was expected by PSM (β=0.28, p<0.001), resilience (β=0.30, p<0.001), and work-related stress (β=-0.40, p<0.001) (F=57.4, p<0.001). Depression was expected by fewer years of employment (β=-0.12, p=0.02), viral anxiety (β= 0.21, p<0.001), and low resilience (β=-0.42, p<0.001) (F=22.1, p<0.001). Resilience and PSM partially mediated the effects of work-related stress on work engagement. Depression was influenced by COVID-19–induced viral anxiety, and their resilience—but not PSM—mediated the association.Conclusion Public workers’ resilience and PSM partially mediated the effects of work-related stress on work engagement. The influence of viral anxiety on public workers’ depression was mediated by their resilience but not PSM.

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Mediating Effect of Public Service Motivation and Resilience on the Association Between Work-Related Stress and Work Engagement of Public Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jeong

Cho

Kim

et al. 2022

Psychiatry Investig

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“…enabled the commander to make disease control related policies based on the risk assessments and to coordinate efforts across ministries in a whole-of-government approach. Similarly, South Korea established the Central Epidemic Control Headquarters on the same day to achieve policy coherence and increase efficiency in disease control (Kim et al, 2020). This is important as governments were confronting the pandemic with limited resources and fiscal space.…”

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Risk assessment for COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan

Shu¹,

Chang²,

Chen³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Background and objectives: Event-based surveillance and rapid risk assessment for acute public health events are essential in emerging infectious disease control. Since detecting the unusual signal in Wuhan in December 2019, Taiwan has been aligning risk management to policy planning via conducting regular risk assessments to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 . This article aims to provide some insights into Taiwan's experiences and corresponding actions for the outbreak. Results: The COVID-19 risk level in Taiwan was raised to "moderate-to-high" in mid-January 2020 when neighboring countries had reported cases and the human-to-human transmission became obvious. The risk level became "high" on 24 January due to China's escalating epidemic situation and imposed a lockdown in Wuhan. We learned that the commander recognized the importance of risk assessments and considered advice from the experts was crucial in making the correct decision at the early stage of the crisis. Conclusions: Given the surge of COVID-19 cases globally, understanding the evidence-driven mobilizations via detailed risk assessments in Taiwan may be an example worth considering for other countries. We believe that strengthening a global epidemic intelligence network and sharing information in a timely and transparent manner are essential for confronting new challenges of COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases.

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“…The US response to COVID-19 is mostly guided by Governors and Mayors primarily because of their political system. Korea and Taiwan implemented a centralized national strategy with the support of other government instances (Haffajee & Mello, 2020;Kim, Oh & Wang, 2020). Canada has the Health Portfolio Operations Centre (HPOC), which concentrates the operations at different levels of government.…”

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Robustness analysis in an inter-cities mobility network: modeling municipal, state and federal initiatives as failures and attacks toward SARS-CoV-2 containment

Freitas

Moreira

Santos

2020

PeerJ

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We present a robustness analysis of an inter-cities mobility complex network, motivated by the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic and the seek for proper containment strategies. Brazilian data from 2016 are used to build a network with more than five thousand cities (nodes) and twenty-seven states with the edges representing the weekly flow of people between cities via terrestrial transports. Nodes are systematically isolated (removed from the network) either at random (failures) or guided by specific strategies (targeted attacks), and the impacts are assessed with three metrics: the number of components, the size of the giant component, and the total remaining flow of people. We propose strategies to identify which regions should be isolated first and their impact on people mobility. The results are compared with the so-called reactive strategy, which consists of isolating regions ordered by the date the first case of COVID-19 appeared. We assume that the nodes’ failures abstract individual municipal and state initiatives that are independent and possess a certain level of unpredictability. Differently, the targeted attacks are related to centralized strategies led by the federal government in agreement with municipalities and states. Removing a node means completely restricting the mobility of people between the referred city/state and the rest of the network. Results reveal that random failures do not cause a high impact on mobility restraint, but the coordinated isolation of specific cities with targeted attacks is crucial to detach entire network areas and thus prevent spreading. Moreover, the targeted attacks perform better than the reactive strategy for the three analyzed robustness metrics.

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From Uncoordinated Patchworks to a Coordinated System: MERS-CoV to COVID-19 in Korea

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

Mediating Effect of Public Service Motivation and Resilience on the Association Between Work-Related Stress and Work Engagement of Public Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mediating Effect of Public Service Motivation and Resilience on the Association Between Work-Related Stress and Work Engagement of Public Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Risk assessment for COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan

Robustness analysis in an inter-cities mobility network: modeling municipal, state and federal initiatives as failures and attacks toward SARS-CoV-2 containment

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