The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns
(1) Background: The governance measures that governments deploy vary substantially across countries and even within countries; there is, however, limited knowledge of the responses of local governments or from different areas in the same country. (2) Methods: By using grounded theory and an automati...
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| author | Yuxi He Maorui Li Qixi Zhong Qi Li Ruishi Yang Jing Lin Xiaojun Zhang |
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| description | (1) Background: The governance measures that governments deploy vary substantially across countries and even within countries; there is, however, limited knowledge of the responses of local governments or from different areas in the same country. (2) Methods: By using grounded theory and an automatic text processing method, this study analyses the pandemic governance measures, the pandemic governance pattern, and possible factors across 28 provinces in mainland China based on the text of 28 official provincial government Sina microblogs dating from 20 January to 1 July 2020. (3) Results and discussion: The provincial pandemic governance patterns in China are divided into a pathogen-control pattern, a diagnosis and treatment consolidation pattern, a balanced promotion pattern, a quick-adjustment response pattern, and a recovery-oriented pattern. The pandemic severity, economic development, public health service, and population structure may all have an impact on pandemic governance measures. (4) Conclusions: The conclusions of this study may help us to reconstruct governance systems related to global public health emergencies from the perspective of normalisation, as well as providing important clarification for management and a reference for countries seeking to curb the global spread of a pandemic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7c57af2dee7c4d60acf63bad205fbfb22023-11-22T07:49:42ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322021-08-0198102010.3390/healthcare9081020The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main PatternsYuxi He0Maorui Li1Qixi Zhong2Qi Li3Ruishi Yang4Jing Lin5Xiaojun Zhang6School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, ChinaSchool of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China(1) Background: The governance measures that governments deploy vary substantially across countries and even within countries; there is, however, limited knowledge of the responses of local governments or from different areas in the same country. (2) Methods: By using grounded theory and an automatic text processing method, this study analyses the pandemic governance measures, the pandemic governance pattern, and possible factors across 28 provinces in mainland China based on the text of 28 official provincial government Sina microblogs dating from 20 January to 1 July 2020. (3) Results and discussion: The provincial pandemic governance patterns in China are divided into a pathogen-control pattern, a diagnosis and treatment consolidation pattern, a balanced promotion pattern, a quick-adjustment response pattern, and a recovery-oriented pattern. The pandemic severity, economic development, public health service, and population structure may all have an impact on pandemic governance measures. (4) Conclusions: The conclusions of this study may help us to reconstruct governance systems related to global public health emergencies from the perspective of normalisation, as well as providing important clarification for management and a reference for countries seeking to curb the global spread of a pandemic.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/8/1020COVID-19official government Weibo textpandemic governance measuresdynamic changespandemic governance patterns |
| spellingShingle | Yuxi He Maorui Li Qixi Zhong Qi Li Ruishi Yang Jing Lin Xiaojun Zhang The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns Healthcare COVID-19 official government Weibo text pandemic governance measures dynamic changes pandemic governance patterns |
| title | The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns |
| title_full | The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns |
| title_fullStr | The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns |
| title_short | The Chinese Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Measures, Dynamic Changes, and Main Patterns |
| title_sort | chinese government s response to the pandemic measures dynamic changes and main patterns |
| topic | COVID-19 official government Weibo text pandemic governance measures dynamic changes pandemic governance patterns |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/8/1020 |
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