Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented an unprecedented public health crisis across the globe. Governments have developed different approaches to tackle the complex and intractable challenge, showing variations in their effectiveness and results. South Korea has achieved e...

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Main Authors: LEE, Seulki, YEO, Jungwon, NA, Chongmin
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-45682021-06-11T05:30:29Z Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19 LEE, Seulki YEO, Jungwon NA, Chongmin The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented an unprecedented public health crisis across the globe. Governments have developed different approaches to tackle the complex and intractable challenge, showing variations in their effectiveness and results. South Korea has achieved exceptional performance thus far: It has flattened the curve of new infections and brought the outbreak under control without imposing forceful measures such as lockdowns and travel ban. This commentary addresses the South Korean government’s response to COVID-19 and highlights distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities as critical factors. The authors discuss how the South Korean government has cultivated distributed cognition and three core capabilities—reflective-improvement, collaborative, and data-analytical capabilities—after its painful experience with 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV). South Korea’s adaptive approaches and its learning path examined in this commentary provide practical implications for managing potential additional waves of COVID-19 and a future public health crisis 2020-08-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3311 info:doi/10.1177/0275074020942412 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4568/viewcontent/LearningFromPast_COVID_2020_pvoa.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University COVID-19 distributed cognition emergency and crisis management public health crisis state capability Asian Studies Emergency and Disaster Management Health Policy Public Health
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Singapore
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topic COVID-19
distributed cognition
emergency and crisis management
public health crisis
state capability
Asian Studies
Emergency and Disaster Management
Health Policy
Public Health
spellingShingle COVID-19
distributed cognition
emergency and crisis management
public health crisis
state capability
Asian Studies
Emergency and Disaster Management
Health Policy
Public Health
LEE, Seulki
YEO, Jungwon
NA, Chongmin
Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19
description The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented an unprecedented public health crisis across the globe. Governments have developed different approaches to tackle the complex and intractable challenge, showing variations in their effectiveness and results. South Korea has achieved exceptional performance thus far: It has flattened the curve of new infections and brought the outbreak under control without imposing forceful measures such as lockdowns and travel ban. This commentary addresses the South Korean government’s response to COVID-19 and highlights distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities as critical factors. The authors discuss how the South Korean government has cultivated distributed cognition and three core capabilities—reflective-improvement, collaborative, and data-analytical capabilities—after its painful experience with 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV). South Korea’s adaptive approaches and its learning path examined in this commentary provide practical implications for managing potential additional waves of COVID-19 and a future public health crisis
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author LEE, Seulki
YEO, Jungwon
NA, Chongmin
author_facet LEE, Seulki
YEO, Jungwon
NA, Chongmin
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title Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19
title_short Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19
title_full Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19
title_fullStr Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Learning from the past: Distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling COVID-19
title_sort learning from the past: distributed cognition and crisis management capabilities for tackling covid-19
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2020
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3311
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4568/viewcontent/LearningFromPast_COVID_2020_pvoa.pdf
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