Policies Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sociopolitical Perspective from Taiwan

Yeh, Ming Jui; Cheng, Yawen

doi:10.1089/hs.2020.0095

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“…Medicine availability and price information interventions depend on the accessibility of medicine sellers’ inventory and price information. This can be through medicine sellers uploading their information to a government-run, publicly accessible and searchable website, for example, in Peru; 43 , 44 , 57 , 59 using proprietary technology operated by medicine price comparison businesses, for example, in the United States; 56 linking pharmacy information systems to a central mainframe, for example, in Taiwan 53 , 54 , 68 , 69 or as in Zimbabwe, having pharmacists participate on the WhatsApp communities of practice, responding to medicine availability and price queries posted there. 67…”

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Consumers’ access to information about medicine prices and availability as an enabler of last mile medicine access: A scoping review

Mureyi

Gwatidzo

Matyanga

2022

The Journal of Medicine Access

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Information about where medicines are in stock and how much they cost facilitates consumers’ timely access to affordable medicines by enabling price comparisons and the identification of stockists. Our aims were to: (1) Review how consumer access to price and availability information is engaged within the Medicine Access discourse and (2) identify factors associated with the existence of interventions that provide consumers with medicine availability and price information. We conducted two scoping reviews. We reviewed 26 medicine access and pharmaceutical system strengthening frameworks to assess how they conceptualise information access. We then reviewed four interventions that provide consumers with availability and price information to identify the factors associated with these interventions’ existence. We found that in the medical access discourse, information is mainly cast as helpful to entities that ensure medicine access for populations. Information as an enabler of medicine procurement for consumers/households is less emphasised. We then identified the following eight factors that facilitate consumer access to reliable medicine price and availability information: the recognition of a medicine access problem that can be mitigated by consumer access to information; cross-sectoral collaboration; the willingness of medicine sellers to disclose their inventory information; having information quality control measures; appropriate incentives for intervention adoption; enabling legal environments; systems of pooling information; and access to digital information technology infrastructure. We recommend that more theoretical and implementation attention ought to be directed at how medicine price and medicine availability information can empower individual consumers to make sound purchasing decisions.

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Consumers’ access to information about medicine prices and availability as an enabler of last mile medicine access: A scoping review

Mureyi

Gwatidzo

Matyanga

2022

The Journal of Medicine Access

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“…COVID-19 is a serious public health emergency with severe adverse implications for the population, healthcare systems, and economies globally [ 10 ]. Centralized and professional leadership, democratic and accountable political culture, liberated civil society, and broad social participation are the key features of disease control in a country [ 11 ].…”

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Perspectives of the General Public Regarding Government Policies in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Magar¹,

Hankins²,

Batool³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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BackgroundThe world has been hit with one of the deadliest pandemics in history. This pandemic has affected almost all countries and more than 50 million people globally. This paper takes an in-depth look at all government policies that were developed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 in Pakistan and the perception of the general population regarding these policies. This study aims to provide help for policymakers to consider as they build more resilient regions. MethodologyA descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted online in Pakistan from April 2021 to September 2021. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed after obtaining informed consent. A sample size of 200 was calculated using the World Health Organization's (WHO) sample size calculator. The data analysis was performed using SPSS version 23 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA), and the data are presented in the form of frequency tables, bar charts, and pie charts. ResultsOf the 200 respondents, 71% were satisfied with government policies, and 28.5% were not satisfied. A total of 66.5% of respondents thought that government policies were effective in combating COVID-19. More than half (80%) of the participants believed that government policies have reduced the rate of COVID-19 spread, while 20% thought that the policies did not help in reducing the rate of spread. Overall, 96% of the respondents supported quarantine as a good step taken by the Pakistan government to prevent COVID-19. ConclusionsThe satisfaction rate of the general public regarding government policies developed to combat COVID-19 was 71.5%. Government strategies should be improved to counter the impact of large-scale epidemics, and further studies are required to educate the public. With an already fragile healthcare system, this can have long-lasting issues in developing countries as the world might be expecting a new challenge in the form of monkeypox.

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“…6 In Taiwan, a monitoring system integrated data from immigration, health insurance, and mobile phones to track the exact location and movement of individuals under quarantine and to alert police in the case of violations. 7 Facial recognition and data mining from smartphone apps have been deployed for quarantine control in several countries, including Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 8,9 The adoption of surveillance and tracking tools to combat the global pandemic extends beyond governments: individual citizens have voluntarily taken up the use of many surveillance tools, such as the Google/Apple Exposure Notification system, a user-centric approach to contact tracing released on open-source platforms.…”

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confidence: 99%

Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies

Garard

Wood²,

Sabet-Kassouf³

et al. 2022

One Earth

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Policies Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sociopolitical Perspective from Taiwan

Cited by 34 publications

References 7 publications

Consumers’ access to information about medicine prices and availability as an enabler of last mile medicine access: A scoping review

Consumers’ access to information about medicine prices and availability as an enabler of last mile medicine access: A scoping review

Perspectives of the General Public Regarding Government Policies in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies

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