LEADER 04165nam 22006015 450 001 9910863275403321 005 20250415191105.0 010 $a9789811594533$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9811594538 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-9453-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011568984 035 $a(OCoLC)1223539733$z(OCoLC)1221556985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6396067 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-9453-3 035 $a(PPN)259458236 035 $a(Perlego)3481218 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011568984 100 $a20201113d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCapacity-building and Pandemics $eSingapore's Response to Covid-19 /$fby Jun Jie Woo 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 $cSpringer Singapore$d2021 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 112 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aPalgrave pivot 311 08$a9789811594526 311 08$a981159452X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Policy Capacity -- Chapter 3. Capacity- Building in a Post-SARS World -- Chapter 4. Singapore's response to Covid-19 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion . 330 $aThis book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore's Covid-19 response efforts. In doing so, the book discusses the fiscal, operational, analytical and political capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the pandemic, and proposes a broad policy capacity framework that will be applicable to the analysis of other contexts as well. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive disruptions in societies and economies across the world. Singapore's early success in managing the Covid-19 pandemic has received much attention from researchers and observers from across the world. A study by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University had described Singapore's early efforts to detect and contain Covid-19 as the "gold standard of near-perfect detection". Despite its success in containing Covid-19 infections, Singapore has also faced challenges arising from systemic policy blind spots, resulting in high levels of infection in its migrant worker dormitories. With that, the book also discusses the systemic blind spots and policy shortcomings that have emerged in Singapore's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and provides policy recommendations on policy capacity-building for future pandemics and crises. The book will be of strong interest to scholars and students of public policy and crisis management, especially those who specialise in healthcare policy and pandemic response. Given the ongoing challenges posed by Covid-19 as well as the continued risks of other future infectious disease outbreaks, the book will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners seeking to draw policy lessons from Singapore's experience with the SARS and Covid-19 outbreaks. J.J. Woo is an independent policy researcher and consultant. He has held faculty and research positions at the Education University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University, the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Woo received his PhD from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aAsia$xPolitics and government 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aAsian Politics 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aAsia$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aAsian Politics. 676 $a616.2414 676 $a614.5/92414 700 $aWoo$b J. J$g(Jun Jie),$01229800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910863275403321 996 $aCapacity-building and pandemics$92854714 997 $aUNINA