COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis
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School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
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Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
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Healthcare 2020, 8(3), 288; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288
Received: 31 July 2020
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Revised: 10 August 2020
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Accepted: 20 August 2020
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Published: 22 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Coronaviruses (CoV) and COVID-19 Pandemic)
Public health crises are the “touchstone” to test the ability of national public health crisis governance. The public health crisis in the new era presents new characteristics: systematic, cross-border and uncertainty. The governance dilemma of a public health crisis generally emphasizes the joint participation and communication of different subjects, which is suspected of overlapping and redundancy, and lacks the auxiliary support of major public health crisis events. It dispels the significance of government-level cooperation. The essence of the public health crisis governance system is the chain law of stimulus–response. In combination with COVID-19 development in China, we track down the main reasons for the temporary disruption and the government’s response to this major public health crisis. We mainly examine the tension between the centralization of power in China’s governance structure and the effectiveness of local governance, and the control of local governments in information disclosure. The response to a public health crisis and the optimization of a decision-making mechanism should build tension between the centralization of power and effectiveness of local governance. It is suggested that government should disclose and share information to the public timely and pay more attention to the core value of order in crisis management.
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Zhang, J.; Zhang, R. COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis. Healthcare 2020, 8, 288. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288
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Zhang J, Zhang R. COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis. Healthcare. 2020; 8(3):288. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Jinrui, and Ruilian Zhang. 2020. "COVID-19 in China: Power, Transparency and Governance in Public Health Crisis" Healthcare 8, no. 3: 288. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030288
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