TYPOLOGY AND ETHOLOGY OF PUBLIC HEALTH CRISES
Keywords:
crisis, urgency, emergency, public healthcare, crisis managementAbstract
Public healthcare crises are extremely critical to any health care system in the world, to the well-being of society and the nations of individual countries, to the economic performance and national security of each state on the world map. The unprecedented global health emergency, which began in 2019 and completely subjugated all economic and political processes in 2020, proved that public authorities around the world are reorienting their priorities due to a pandemic that has led to an unprecedented crisis in public healthcare. That is why last two years, the main research efforts of the scientific community in the field of crisis knowledge and management has been focused on the unprecedented global public health crisis caused by the SARS-Cov-19. The scientific resources on the subject are numerous and open, but at the moment they are still focused on searching the medical solution to the disease and the non-medical interventions to overcome the pandemic. Predominant emphasis of the COVID-19 epidemic is that it is a unique experience in highlighting the role of knowledge and research in addressing global public health crises and that it is an opportunity for research systems to improve and uphold the importance of their existence, being adequately responsible for overcoming the crisis. And it is the lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic that provide a broad basis for discussing and seeking the most appropriate approaches to show, through research and studies, how regulation, policy and joint efforts can support the timely establishment and preparedness for adequate crisis response in public healthcare and how to mitigate and cope with them. A comprehensive study of public health crises definitions, reasons and types requires an understanding of how different crises affect different dimensions of an organization or system at different stages of their development. The unusual and complex nature of crises makes them difficult to systematical study. Because of these challenges, there is limited empirical research on the nature of crises and how an organization, especially in public healthcare, can prepare for and deal with them effectively. The article provides an overview of the existing literature on the organizational crisis and the limitations of this literature. 47 references has been reviewed to provide a theoretical basis for the study of crises in public administration and public healthcare, focusing mainly on the definitions, typology and reasons for their occurrence, described in the scientific literature.
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