TY - JOUR
T1 - Public health emergency response coordination
T2 - putting the plan into practice
AU - Kim, Yushim
AU - Ku, Minyoung
AU - Oh, Seong Soo
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016S1A3A2924956). We were also technically and financially supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (Ministry of Science and ICT) (No.2018R1A5A7059549). We would like to thank Ji Hyun Byeon, Minsang Lee, and Chan Wang for their research assistance. We appreciate comments from Stefan Verweij and Wei Zhong. We are grateful to the Center for Computational Social Science at Hanyang University for their technical support. We are also benefited from a presentation at the Institute of Governance Design’s Social Science Korea colloquium series in Korea University and a workshop at Renmin University of China in 2017 as well as a presentation at the American Society for Public Administration conference in 2018 and the Association of Policy Analysis and Management in 2019. We remain responsible for all errors.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Insufficient specifications about public health emergency coordination involving government entities have been criticized as a contributing factor in managerial and institutional shortcomings. In response, this study analyzed the coordination plan and actions taken during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea. Using network data, we found a low congruence between the planned response coordination networks and those carried out. This result was observed for two reasons. First, unrealized or newly emerging relationships among planned actors contributed to the low congruence. Second, the response plan overlooked the role and relationships of several intermediary actors between the local and national actors in the government system. The broad implication is that public health emergency preparedness and response agencies may be cognizant of the neglected areas in drawing the boundaries between—and the relationships of—core and emergent actors in emergency planning.
AB - Insufficient specifications about public health emergency coordination involving government entities have been criticized as a contributing factor in managerial and institutional shortcomings. In response, this study analyzed the coordination plan and actions taken during the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea. Using network data, we found a low congruence between the planned response coordination networks and those carried out. This result was observed for two reasons. First, unrealized or newly emerging relationships among planned actors contributed to the low congruence. Second, the response plan overlooked the role and relationships of several intermediary actors between the local and national actors in the government system. The broad implication is that public health emergency preparedness and response agencies may be cognizant of the neglected areas in drawing the boundaries between—and the relationships of—core and emergent actors in emergency planning.
KW - MERS-CoV
KW - Response coordination plan
KW - social network analysis
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U2 - 10.1080/13669877.2019.1628092
DO - 10.1080/13669877.2019.1628092
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067574940
SN - 1366-9877
VL - 23
SP - 928
EP - 944
JO - Journal of Risk Research
JF - Journal of Risk Research
IS - 7-8
ER -