Journal of Applied Pharmacy
ROLE OF HEALTH POLICY AND ECONOMICS IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19

Authors: Islam Anan

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Abstract

Many international bodies are claiming that second wave is inevitable however risk can be
mitigated if we can apply reformed and innovative health policy and health economics
strategies, collecting health policies of countries that successfully managed to end the first
wave successfully like Germany, Jordan, and South Korea, as well as pitfalls of countries
that led unsuccessful strategies like the united kingdom, Sweden or the United States,
helped in forming 10 health policy reform strategies, that can be categorized into five pillars
(5S); Space (in terms of health service providing capacity and ensuring the existence of
resources during cases surge), Staff (in terms of healthcare professionals incentivizing and
retention plans), Supplies (in terms of diagnostics, masks, protective equipment) and finally,
System (opening the economy on phases with evaluation strategy, applying technologies of
identification and tracking contacts, lead proactive testing strategies and not reactive testing
strategies, house quarantine registries, oblige large businesses to have social
responsibilities to protect their workers, and completing awareness campaigns) and finally
Science (investing in research and development for protection, immunization and treatment

Article Type:Conference abstract
Received: 2020-09-05
Accepted: 2020-09-15
First Published:2020-09-25
First Page & Last Page: 113 - 114
Collection Year:2020