Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Antonio Sanchez-Bayon, Esther Gonzalez-Arnedo, Angel Andreu-Escario
Summary: This study examines the COVID-19 crisis management and the operations of the Spanish healthcare sector using theories from Political Economy, Law & Economics, and Public Choice. The findings highlight the failures of the Spanish system and its semi-federal model, as well as the impossibility of economic calculation and suppression of the private sector due to lack of coordination and recentralization attempts.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Khanh Hoang, Muhammad Arif, Cuong Nguyen
Summary: The US government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic support packages have a positive impact on corporate investment. The effect of economic support is stronger than that of health containment policies, and it is more pronounced in technology-intensive firms.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Karen Tavares Zambrano, Maryam Imani, Davi Gasparini Fernandes Cunha
Summary: This study evaluates the organizational resilience of the Brazilian water sector under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and finds that the pandemic has exacerbated financial challenges in the sector, with state-owned companies showing better resilience compared to local companies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Thi Thuy Anh Vo, Mieszko Mazur
Summary: Using a sample of 39 countries from 2010 through 2021, the study finds that institutional holdings have a destabilizing effect on stock prices during the COVID-19 crisis, while providing stability during normal periods. The impact of foreign and domestic institutions varies, and institutional investors help reduce stock return volatility in countries more heavily affected by the crisis. Additionally, investor protection moderates the impact of institutional holdings on stock return volatility in both pre- and crisis periods.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ataus Samad, Khalil Al Jerjawi, Ann Dadich
Summary: This article identifies the leadership attributes necessary for effective political leaders to manage crises. The study conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 Australian political leaders and found that leaders need to be visionary, courageous, calm, inspirational, ethical, empathetic, authentic, and resilient during a crisis. The findings emphasize the importance of different and complementary theories to capture all the necessary attributes. This study provides insights into political leadership during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and enables constituents to evaluate their leaders' leadership capacities.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nishtha Jain, Preet Malviya, Purnima Singh, Sumitava Mukherjee
Summary: This study analyzes the responses of political leaders in India on Twitter during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis, finding that the tweets had an overall positive sentiment and focused on crisis management information, strengthening followers' resilience and trust, reputation management, and leaders' proactiveness. The research indicates the integration of political interactions on Twitter with politics and governance to handle the COVID-19 crisis in India, with implications for digital media interaction, political communication, public relations, and crisis leadership.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geography
Yezelia Danira Caceres Cabana, Aaron Malone, Eliseo Zeballos Zeballos, Narvy Oshin Huamani Huaranca, Marleny Ttito Tinta, Soulange Annette Gonzales Beltran, Abel Andia Arosquipa, Danny Pinedo
Summary: The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru was devastating, with high death rates and severe economic disruption despite ambitious response measures. The national government's centralized, militarized approach was ineffective in confronting the pandemic, while informal local governance norms were reinforced in rural areas. The bifurcated results in crisis management revealed weaknesses in Peru's governance structures and institutions, and how preexisting habits were reproduced rather than reformed in the face of crisis.
Article
Environmental Studies
Malin E. Wimelius, Veronica Strandh
Summary: This paper examines the activities of Swedish organised crisis volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic and addresses two research questions regarding the characteristics of organised volunteerism during the crisis, the experiences of cooperation with local public actors, and the views on political steering. It contributes to the literature on the role of volunteers by linking it to political steering, which is rarely explored in disaster research. The findings reveal how organised volunteers adapted to changing demands, experienced varied cooperation with local authorities, and called for stronger national leadership and explicit central political steering.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Midori Matsushima, Kanami Tsuno, Sumiyo Okawa, Ai Hori, Takahiro Tabuchi
Summary: Trust has been found to play a significant role in the mental well-being of postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic, with generalised trust showing a strong association with lower depressive symptoms and Fear of Coronavirus-19 Scale scores. The study also highlighted that the impact of trust on mental well-being may vary depending on the infection spread status, as higher generalised trust was only significantly associated with lower depressive symptoms in areas with lower COVID-19 cases. This suggests that even women who usually have access to social support need special attention and care during the current situation.
SSM-POPULATION HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Business
Carmine Viola, Pierluigi Toma, Francesco Manta, Marco Benvenuto
Summary: Through a questionnaire survey and model building, the study found that health literacy is crucial for the effectiveness of institutional communication, while education plays a key role in understanding communication strategies and health risk prevention.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Delia Baldassarri, Scott E. Page
Summary: Baldassarri contrasts ideological and affective partisanship in discussing the contributions of the papers to political polarization. Page suggests that the diverse models in the ensemble may be more valuable together than individually, with individual papers identifying causes of polarization and potential solutions.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
Lorenzo Cotula
Summary: The spread of COVID-19 has raised complex questions regarding public health emergencies, economic crises, and disruptions to established forms of governance. While addressing the public health emergency is crucial, it is also important to monitor how the crisis is reshaping economic and political structures, and how various actors are renegotiating relationships in the unique circumstances created by the pandemic. These changes can have significant impacts on a wide range of policy areas in both the short and long term.
Article
Economics
Mohammad Bitar, Imane El Ouadghiri, Jonathan Peillex
Summary: The study finds that individualistic countries have a higher number of COVID-19 cases, but effective political institutions, sound governance, and better economic conditions can reduce the impact of individualism on COVID-19 spread. These findings are important for explaining the differences in COVID-19 spread between countries and understanding the factors that drive individuals' compliance with formal rules and regulations.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Keng-Chi Chang, William R. Hobbs, Margaret E. Roberts, Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
Summary: Crisis motivates people to seek more information, and in the case of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, individuals were able to bypass censorship to access international news and political content that were typically blocked. Comparisons to other countries affected by early outbreaks suggest that people who are normally blocked from accessing information may disproportionately access censored information during a crisis, leading to evaluations of the government based on both current events and censored history.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Md Akhtaruzzaman, Sabri Boubaker, Ahmet Sensoy
Summary: During the COVID-19 period, financial contagion between China and G7 countries occurs through both financial and non-financial firms, with a notably higher increase in correlations for financial firms, leading to higher hedging costs.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
George Avelino, Lorena G. Barberia, Ciro Biderman
HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING
(2014)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marcia C. Castro, Sun Kim, Lorena Barberia, Ana Freitas Ribeiro, Susie Gurzenda, Karina Braga Ribeiro, Erin Abbott, Jeffrey Blossom, Beatriz Rache, Burton H. Singer
Summary: The study found that COVID-19 in Brazil is spreading rapidly across municipalities with distinct spatial and temporal patterns of clustering, trajectories, and speed. Analysis shows that inadequate policy measures have led to high transmission and mortality burdens. The current surge in cases and deaths, along with the circulation of concerning variants, highlights the need for government to strengthen prevention and control measures.
Letter
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Lorena G. Barberia, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Ester C. Sabino
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Jaason M. Geerts, Donna Kinnair, Paul Taheri, Ajit Abraham, Joonmo Ahn, Rifat Atun, Lorena Barberia, Nigel J. Best, Rakhi Dandona, Adeel Abbas Dhahri, Louise Emilsson, Julian R. Free, Michael Gardam, William H. Geerts, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Shanthi Johnson, Allison Kooijman, Alika T. Lafontaine, Eyal Leshem, Caroline Lidstone-Jones, Erwin Loh, Oscar Lyons, Khalid Ali Fouda Neel, Peter S. Nyasulu, Oliver Razum, Helene Sabourin, Jackie Schleifer Taylor, Hamid Sharifi, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Brett Sutton, Zunyou Wu, Marc Bilodeau
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant global challenge for health leadership. This study aims to provide a evidence- and expertise-informed framework of leadership imperatives to guide health and public health leaders during the postemergency stage of the pandemic.
Article
Political Science
Lorena G. Barberia, Maria Leticia Claro Oliveira, Andrea Junqueira, Natalia de Paula Moreira, Guy D. Whitten
Summary: The study reveals significant heterogeneity in the causal relationships between government policy, citizen behavior, the economy, and COVID-related health outcomes across states in Brazil, indicating that there is no universal model applicable to all states and the dynamics are context-dependent.
SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
(2021)
Article
Political Science
Lorena Barberia, Thomas Pluemper, Guy D. Whitten
Summary: Political decisions and behaviors have a significant impact on the dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic, influencing the choice and compliance of containment policies, and ultimately shaping the epidemiological situation in different regions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Eduardo J. Gomez, Prerna Singh, Jeremy Shiffman, Lorena Barberia
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeffrey Lazarus, Diana Romero, Christopher J. Kopka, Salim Abdool Karim, Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Gisele Almeida, Ricardo Baptista-Leite, Joshua A. Barocas, Mauricio L. Barreto, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Quique Bassat, Carolina Batista, Morgan Bazilian, Shu-Ti Chiou, Carlos del Rio, Gregory J. Dore, George F. Gao, Lawrence O. Gostin, Margaret Hellard, Jose L. Jimenez, Gagandeep Kang, Nancy Lee, Mojca Maticic, Martin McKee, Sabin Nsanzimana, Miquel Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski, Oksana Pyzik, Kenneth Rabin, Sunil Raina, Sabina Faiz Rashid, Magdalena Rathe, Rocio Saenz, Sudhvir Singh, Malene Trock-Hempler, Sonia Villapol, Peiling Yap, Agnes Binagwaho, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Ayman El-Mohandes
Summary: Despite scientific and medical advances, political, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors continue to undermine the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Delphi study involving a diverse panel of experts from 112 countries and territories developed a set of recommendations across various domains to address this global threat to public health.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Adnan A. Hyder, Natalia S. Ambrosio, Omar Garcia-Ponce, Lorena Barberia
Summary: This paper discusses the relationship between peace and health, with a focus on the Americas, and calls for interdisciplinary research. The author hopes that the findings will promote dialogue on peace and health in regional and global health literature.
Article
Immunology
Antonio Fernando Boing, Alexandra Crispim Boing, Lorena Barberia, Marcelo Eduardo Borges, S. V. Subramanian
Summary: Vaccination is crucial for reducing severe COVID-19 cases, but vaccine access disparities within countries may lead to inequalities in coverage. This study investigated potential inequalities in vaccine coverage among Brazilian adults based on demographic, geographic, and socioeconomic characteristics. The study found higher vaccination coverage among the elderly and women, as well as socioeconomic and demographic disparities in coverage.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lorena G. Barberia, Natalia de P. Moreira, Brigina Kemp, Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras, Marcela Zamudio, Isabel Seelaender Costa Rosa, Rebeca de J. Carvalho, Tatiane C. M. Sousa
Summary: This study evaluates the effectiveness of surveillance policies to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The findings suggest that lower levels of RT-PCR testing and genomic surveillance are associated with areas characterized by higher population density and greater reliance on the public health system. The results highlight the importance of structuring health surveillance and information systems based on local demographics and vulnerabilities during emergency situations.
GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH AND POLICY
(2022)
Letter
Biology
Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho, Ricardo Ruan Rocha Santana, Victor Santana Santos, Lorena G. Barberia
Article
Public Administration
Lorena G. Barberia, Luiz G. R. Cantarelli, Maria Leticia Claro de Faria Oliveira, Natalia de Paula Moreira, Isabel Seelaender Costa Rosa
Summary: Sub-national governments in Brazil played a crucial role in implementing non-pharmaceutical interventions to combat COVID-19, with significant heterogeneity in social distancing policy stringency observed across regions and weeks. Anti-contagion policies were found to increase adherence to staying at home even with relatively moderate social distancing measures, and a more comprehensive and coherent set of policies introduced and sustained by state governments had a greater impact on social distancing effectiveness.
REVISTA DE ADMINISTRACAO PUBLICA
(2021)
Article
Political Science
Lorena Barberia, George Avelino, Gabriel Zanlorenssi
PUBLIUS-THE JOURNAL OF FEDERALISM
(2019)
