The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Its Impact on Post-Corona Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management in Republic of Korea

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the Republic of Korea’s Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM). This study aims to examine the Republic of Korea’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on Health-EDRM, especially human resources, health services, and logistics. Challenges in the Republic of Korea, including lack of medical workforce, confused risk communication, shortage of hospital beds, and inefficient distribution of medical resources, have been highlighted in this paper in terms of human resources, health service delivery, and logistics, which are components of Health-EDRM. It is essential to address the cooperation between the government and private sectors, the protection of occupational health and safety of medical staff during the pandemic, and strategies and technologies to scale up the health facilities, to respond to a future crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Business Risks in COVID-19 Crisis Dataset Modeling: Regulatory vs. Marketing Tools of Risk Management

“…The paper clearly contrasts with the existing literature, opening a new view of risk management of business in the context of 2020. Unlike Chen et al (2022), de Graaff et al (2023, Metwally and Diab (2023), Park et al (2023), Peng et al (2023), andYang et al (2023), who, in the context of the pandemic, consider government measures of the development of healthcare infrastructure and business measures of an increase in sanitation, the introduction of a mandatory mask regime among employees, and social distancing to be the main measures, this paper substantiated that these measures provide only a small, limited effect. A stronger and more vivid effect in 2020 was achieved with the help of digitalization measures, including the transfer of employees to remote employment, the development of electronic financial operations and online trade, and other automatization in business.…”

“…First, this context was connected with the pandemic-as a viral threat-and the healthcare crisis. In the works by Chen et al (2022), de Graaff et al (2023, Metwally and Diab (2023), Park et al (2023), Peng et al (2023), andYang et al (2023), a traditional means of fighting against epidemics and pandemics is given as the implementation of complex measures aimed at the improvement of healthcare infrastructure. For example, an increase in the level of sanitation at workplaces, the introduction of mandatory mask wearing by employees, and social distancing at workplaces allowed businesses to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases among employees.…”

Beyond Patient Safety Goal Towards Hospital Sustainable Risk: A Systematic Review on the Evolution of Hospital Risk Management

“…In Fig. (6), patient safety incident reports are located in this zone. However, the "basic theme" in the lower-right shows the relevant theme, yet it does not develop.…”

“…Fig. (6) shows the isolated theme, such as COVID-19, in which it presents the emerging disease and connects with the emergency system in the hospital.…”

“…Managing a hospital in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) environment is quite difficult. COVID-19 tested the robustness of several hospital systems, such as the readiness of the medical workforce, unique crisis communication, shortage of hospital beds, logistics as well as citizen perspective toward hospitals [5,6]. Even though hospitals generate revenue from vaccination services, this dilemma perceives both risk and opportunity for hospitals.…”