Appropriate Governance Responses to Infectious Disease Threats: Developing Working Hypotheses

IF 1.9 Q3 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.1002/RHC3.12176

P. Kenis, L. Schol, M. Kraaij-Dirkzwager, A. Timen

引用次数: 35

Abstract

Infectious diseases remain a threat to public health in today's interconnected world. There is an ongoing debate on how responses to threats of infectious diseases can best be coordinated, and the field remains nascent in understanding which specific structural governance arrangement will perform best. The present paper contributes to this discussion by demonstrating that it is possible to develop working hypotheses specifying the relationship between the type of infectious disease crisis and type of response to the crisis. For type of crises and type of response mechanisms there is still a lack of research, but the hypothesis combining these two provide a perspective for a future research and action agenda. It certainly prevents us from choosing between schism or hypes when it comes to crisis response. It provides instruments to realize that no single type of response is the most effective and that not all responses are equally effective in a concrete case.

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应对传染病威胁的适当治理：发展工作假设

在当今相互关联的世界中，传染病仍然是对公共健康的威胁。目前正在就如何最好地协调应对传染病威胁进行辩论，该领域在理解哪种具体的结构性治理安排将发挥最佳作用方面仍处于萌芽状态。本文通过证明有可能制定工作假设，具体说明传染病危机的类型和应对危机的类型之间的关系，从而为这一讨论做出贡献。对于危机类型和应对机制类型，仍然缺乏研究，但将这两者结合起来的假设为未来的研究和行动议程提供了一个视角。这无疑阻止了我们在应对危机时在分裂和炒作之间做出选择。它提供了工具，使人们认识到，没有哪种类型的反应是最有效的，也不是所有的反应在具体情况下都同样有效。

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Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

CiteScore

7.50

自引率

8.60%

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