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100 _aXu, H. and Daniel Basu, Rashmita
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245 _aHow the united states flunked the covid-19 test: Some observations and several lessons
260 _aAmerican Review of Public Administration
300 _a50(6-7), Aug-Oct, 2020: p.568-576
520 _aThe unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has already caused enormous economic and human life losses in the United States and it is still ravaging the country. In this article, the authors argue that the pandemic has exposed key issues of concern in several areas of the American government system ranging from federalist intergovernmental relations to public health system and to health care policy. These issues of concern include the strained federal-state relations in emergency management, inadequate data collection and data reporting for disease surveillance and control, politicization and diminished role of science and evidence in administrative decision making, and underinvestment in public health programs especially in minority health. Based on their analysis, the authors admonish that it is critically important for the U.S. government to learn from the failed response to the pandemic and offer several recommendations for improving its response to future public health emergencies and research in public administration. - Reproduced
650 _aPublic health, Emergency management, Federalism, Data reporting, Health disparities
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773 _aAmerican Review of Public Administration
906 _aPUBLIC HEALTH - UNITED STATES
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