01420nam a22001577a 4500 517745 517745 210727b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kim, Y. Oh, S.S. and Wang, C. 27987 From uncoordinated patchworks to a coordinated system: Mers-cov to Covid-19 in Korea American Review of Public Administration 50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.736-742 South Korea has experienced two national public health crises during this decade. The 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV) response’s failure to address coordination problems or authority conflicts provided an opportunity to revise its national disease control system before the 2020 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. Our reflection on Korea’s MERS-CoV and COVID-19 responses provides a perspective on public health emergency management. It is difficult to project the scale of an emerging infectious disease in advance because of its contagious nature and ability to cross geographic boundaries. In a national epidemic or global pandemic, a centralized coordination effort at the national level is desirable, rather than fragmented local, city, or regional efforts. – Reproduced Public health emergency management, Lncident Command System, MERS-CoV, COVID-19 25864 American Review of Public Administration PUBLIC HEALTH AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391811 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-27 50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.736-742 AR124995 2021-07-27 AR