Effectiveness of Emergent Ad Hoc Coordination Groups in Public Health Emergencies.
Risk Anal
; 42(1): 5-20, 2022 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1961874
ABSTRACT
Whether emergent groups positively or negatively influence a disaster response remains inconclusive in the literature. We analyzed the effect of an emergent group on two interorganizational networks for information communication and resource coordination during a public health emergency response. Using the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus in Korea as a study case, we identified an ad hoc entity that appeared in both networks. This emergent group, which consists of government officials and public health specialists, directed and coordinated organizations at the center of the response networks. We found that the emergent group positively contributed to efficient information communication but had no effect on the resource network's efficiency. Our interpretation is that the ad hoc entity was filling relational gaps in the information network, but was redundant in the resource network.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Public Health
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Disease Outbreaks
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Coronavirus Infections
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Emergencies
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Risk Anal
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Risa.13751
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