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oapen-20.500.12657-617272024-03-27T14:14:38Z The South African Response to COVID-19 Fourie, Pieter Lamb, Guy Africa;African studies;COVID-19;Global development;Health;Health governance;Health policy;Pandemic response;Public health;South Africa thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBQ Medicolegal issues thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine This book analyses the first two years of South Africa’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic, from its emergence in early 2020. Drawing on the perspectives of a range of public health experts, economists and other social scientists and development practitioners, the book argues that understanding this early response will be essential to moderate and improve future policy thinking around health governance and epidemic readiness. The book provides systemic analysis of not only the epidemiological progression of COVID-19 in South Africa, but also the socio-political factors that will be key in determining the future of the country as a whole: including health system challenges, socio-economic disparities and inequalities, and variable (often contradictory and tardy) policy responses. Overall, the book exposes Manichean thinking and the spurious policy dichotomies that pitch public health against human rights, economic recovery against viral vector control, and science against ideology, with lessons not just for South Africa, but also for elsewhere on the African continent, and beyond. This book will be perfect for researchers and practitioners across Public Health, Health Policy, and Global Health, as well as those with an interest in South African politics and development more generally. 2023-03-17T12:39:00Z 2023-03-17T12:39:00Z 2023 book 9781032280073 9781032280097 9781003294931 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61727 eng Routledge Studies in Health in Africa application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000878158.pdf http://www.routledge.com Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003294931 10.4324/9781003294931 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781032280073 9781032280097 9781003294931 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 277 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book analyses the first two years of South Africa’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic, from its emergence in early 2020.
Drawing on the perspectives of a range of public health experts, economists and other social scientists and development practitioners, the book argues that understanding this early response will be essential to moderate and improve future policy thinking around health governance and epidemic readiness. The book provides systemic analysis of not only the epidemiological progression of COVID-19 in South Africa, but also the socio-political factors that will be key in determining the future of the country as a whole: including health system challenges, socio-economic disparities and inequalities, and variable (often contradictory and tardy) policy responses. Overall, the book exposes Manichean thinking and the spurious policy dichotomies that pitch public health against human rights, economic recovery against viral vector control, and science against ideology, with lessons not just for South Africa, but also for elsewhere on the African continent, and beyond.
This book will be perfect for researchers and practitioners across Public Health, Health Policy, and Global Health, as well as those with an interest in South African politics and development more generally.
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