Transnistria's public health system and SARS-CoV-2: The challenges of an unrecognized state facing a global pandemic

Q2 Social Sciences

Society and Economy Pub Date : 2021-06-21 DOI:10.1556/204.2021.00005

Cristian Vlas

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Abstract

The paper presents a comprehensive overview of the public health system in the separatist Trasnistrian region of Moldova, an analytically unorthodox undertaking, as this entails looking at the health system of a fragile breakaway state-like entity, a set of circumstances that — rather inevitably, it seems — may define certain basic features of the health system at hand. Attention will be dedicated to outlining the main challenges the region's public health system faces, for instance, concerning the spread of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and SARS-CoV-2. Studying the impact of the coronavirus pandemic can especially serve as a litmus test of the available capacities in Transnistria to deal with public health challenges: facing a novel pathogen, and the related disease and epidemic which threaten to overburden the local institutions. A key question examined here, through the example of Transnistria, is the degree to which international support to the region and the increasing cooperation with the internationally recognized state of Moldova are indispensable for public health security in the unrecognized state.

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德涅斯特河沿岸的公共卫生系统和SARS-CoV-2:一个不被承认的国家面临全球大流行的挑战

本文全面概述了摩尔多瓦特涅斯特分裂地区的公共卫生系统，这在分析上是一项非正统的工作，因为这需要研究一个脆弱的分裂国家实体的卫生系统，这一系列情况——似乎是不可避免的——可能决定了当前卫生系统的某些基本特征。会议将重点概述该地区公共卫生系统面临的主要挑战，例如结核病、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和SARS-CoV-2等传染病的传播。研究冠状病毒大流行的影响尤其可以作为德涅斯特河沿岸地区应对公共卫生挑战的现有能力的试金石:面对一种新型病原体，以及可能使当地机构负担过重的相关疾病和流行病。通过德涅斯特河沿岸的例子，这里审查的一个关键问题是，国际社会对该地区的支持以及与国际公认的摩尔多瓦国日益加强的合作在多大程度上对这个未被承认国家的公共卫生安全是不可或缺的。

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Society and Economy Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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28 weeks

期刊介绍： The double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishes original research articles and book reviews in the fields of economics, social sciences, and business studies, which address social and economic issues in Central and Eastern Europe or have relevance for social and economic development in this region. While it welcomes articles from the international academic community, Society and Economy seeks in particular to provide an international forum for scholars working in the research traditions of this region. The journal welcomes submissions of high-quality and multi-disciplinary articles that address social, demographic, political, economic and industrial trends and challenges. Society and Economy is a gold open access journal since 2019 but authors are not requested to pay an article processing fee.