Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries:good practices and lessons for future preparedness  

作　　者：Shu Chen Lei Guo Yewei Xie Di Dong Rana Saber Mohammed Alluhidan Adwa Alamri Abdulrahman Alfaisal Nahar Alazemi Yahya M.Al‑Farsi Yazid A.Al Ohaly Yi Zhang Severin Rakic Mariam Hamza Christopher H.Herbst Shenglan Tang 

机构地区：[1]Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research(CEPAR),University of New South Wales,Sydney,NSW,Australia [2]School of Risk and Actuarial Studies,University of New South Wales,Sydney,NSW,Australia [3]Global Health Research Center,Duke Kunshan University,Kunshan,Jiangsu,China [4]SingHealth Duke‑NUS Global Health Institute,Duke-NUS,Singapore,Singapore [5]World Bank,Washington,D.C.,USA [6]General Directorate for National Health Economics and Policy,Saudi Health Council,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia [7]Health Research Unit,Gulf Health Council,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia [8]Duke Global Health Institute,Duke University,Durham,NC,USA

出　　处：《Global Health Research and Policy》2024年第1期503-515,共13页全球健康研究与政策(英文)

基　　金：funded by the 2022 Reimbursable Advisory Services program(RAS)between the World Bank and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(KSA).

摘　　要：The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically threatened the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC)countries which have a large proportion of foreign workers.The governments of GCC countries have proactively implemented a com-prehensive set of policy measures,and up to our knowledge,a systematic analysis of qualitative and quantitative evidence on the government response is still lacking.We summarized the GCC countries’government response and quantitatively measured that response using four indexes—the Government Response Index,the Stringency Index,the Vaccine Index,and the Initial Response Index,to analyse their response for future pandemic preparedness.Overall,the government response of all the GCC countries to the COVID-19 pandemic has been comprehensive,stringent,and timely.Notably,the GCC countries have implemented comprehensive vaccine policies.In addition,they have worked actively to protect foreign workers to improve their access to health services and secure their essential living conditions,regardless of their immigrant status.All the GCC countries dynamically adjusted their response to the evolving COVID-19 epidemiological burden and started to relax the stringency of the control poli-cies after the Omicron wave,though the governments had different response magnitudes as measured by the four indexes.These findings have provided several important lessons for future pandemic response and preparedness for countries with similar economic,demographic,and health contexts in(1)prompt actions of containment and clo-sure policies with dynamic adjusting,(2)strengthening health system policies,(3)comprehensive vaccination policies with universal access,(4)equitable and free access to testing,diagnosis,and treatment for all,and(5)strengthening the resilience of health systems.

关 键 词：COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic preparedness Government response GCC countries VACCINE 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]