The South African Response to COVID-19
eBook - ePub

The South African Response to COVID-19

The Early Years

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The South African Response to COVID-19

The Early Years

About this book

This book analyses the first two years of South Africa's response to the COVID-19 epidemic, from its emergence in early 2020.

Drawing on the perspectives of a range of public health experts, economists and other social scientists, and development practitioners, this book argues that understanding this early response will be essential to moderate and improve future policy thinking around health governance and epidemic readiness. This book provides a systemic analysis of not only the epidemiological progression of COVID-19 in South Africa, but also the socio-political factors that will be key in determining the future of the country as a whole, including health system challenges, socio-economic disparities and inequalities, and variable (often contradictory and tardy) policy responses. Overall, this book exposes Manichean thinking and the spurious policy dichotomies that pitch public health against human rights, economic recovery against viral vector control, and science against ideology, with lessons not just for South Africa, but also for elsewhere on the African continent, and beyond.

This book will be perfect for researchers and practitioners across Public Health, Health Policy, and Global Health, as well as those with an interest in South African politics and development more generally.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Yes, you can access The South African Response to COVID-19 by Pieter Fourie, Guy Lamb, Pieter Fourie,Guy Lamb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Health Policy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. List of contributors
  10. 1 The emancipatory catastrophe we need?
  11. 2 COVID-19 in South Africa: History, impact, and government response – An overview
  12. 3 The rough and the smooth: South Africa’s uneven response to COVID-19
  13. 4 Placing the South African COVID-19 epidemic in a global context
  14. 5 Slow crises: South Africa’s governmental responses to COVID-19 in times of ‘crisis within crisis’
  15. 6 Mobilising the public sector to combat COVID-19, and the pandemic’s effect on public sector governance
  16. 7 COVID-19 vaccines: Triumphs and tragedies
  17. 8 Police legitimacy and the SAPS’s policing of the COVID-19 pandemic
  18. 9 The role of temporary social grants in mitigating the poverty impact of COVID-19 in South Africa
  19. 10 COVID-19 and mental health well-being in South Africa: Impact, responses, and recommendations
  20. 11 New foundations: Strengthening early childhood care and education provisioning in South Africa after COVID-19
  21. 12 Tracking the pulse of the people: Support for democracy and the South African government’s response to COVID-19
  22. Index