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Review
. 2020 Mar 26;17(7):2235.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072235.

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis of China's Prevention and Control Strategy for the COVID-19 Epidemic

Jia Wang  1 , Zhifeng Wang  1
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Review

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis of China's Prevention and Control Strategy for the COVID-19 Epidemic

Jia Wang et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

This study used the Strengths (S), Weaknesses (W), Opportunities (O) and Threats (T) (SWOT) analysis method, drawing on our experience of the response to the 2003 SARS epidemic, the 2019 China Health Statistics Yearbook data, and changes in China's policy environment for the pneumonia epidemic response relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, to perform a systematic analysis of the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control strategy S, W, O, and T, with a further analysis of a strategic foundation and to determine a significant and relative strategy. We assessed and formulated strength-opportunity (SO), weakness-opportunity (WO), strength-threat (ST), and weakness-threat (WT) strategies for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic. We conducted an in-depth analysis and identified the highest-priority policies. These are: reshaping the emergency system (SO1); adding health emergency departments to universities and other institutions (WO2); adjusting the economic structure and strengthening international and domestic linkages (ST2); and strengthening public intervention in responding to public health emergencies (WT1).

Keywords: COVID-19; SWOT analysis; coronavirus; strategy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
2003–2018 gross domestic product (GDP) of China.
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Number of domestic medical and health institutions, 2003–2018.
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Number of beds in medical institutions, 2003–2018.
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Number of health technicians, 2003–2018 (per thousand population).
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Figure 5
Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic joint prevention and control in various departments.
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