Are high-performing health systems resilient against the COVID-19 epidemic?

Affiliations

¹ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore. Electronic address: ephhlq@nus.edu.sg.
² Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.
³ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁵ Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
⁶ School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁷ Institute for Population Health, King's College London, London, UK.
⁸ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Helena Legido-Quigley et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 14;395(10227):848-850.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30551-1. Epub 2020 Mar 6.

¹ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore. Electronic address: ephhlq@nus.edu.sg.
² Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.
³ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁵ Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
⁶ School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
⁷ Institute for Population Health, King's College London, London, UK.
⁸ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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