Beck, Matthias and Sheppard, Gail (2023) Running red lights: Risk recognition versus follow‐up implementation in the case of Germany's pandemic preparation. Risk Analysis, 43 (11). pp. 2151-2157. ISSN 0272-4332
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Abstract
The discrepancy between formal arrangements to ensure health security, as assessed in
the Global Health Security Index, and COVID-19 outcomes points to a broader problem
where formal risk recognition is de-coupled from potentially resource-intensive follow-up policy implementation. Germany is an extreme example of this. Pre-COVID-19,
Germany’s Federal Office of Civilian Protection conducted two pandemic preparation
exercises based on scenarios which closely mirrored the current COVID-19 pandemic:
(a) a multi-jurisdictional, multi-agency crisis management exercise assuming a global
influenza pandemic and (b) a joint federal and expert-agency based risk-analysis assuming the outbreak of a modified severe acute respiratory symptom virus. While informing
legal and institutional reforms, key recommendations on storing personal protective
equipment (PPE) and disinfectants for front-line staff were subsequently ignored. PPE
shortages initially put staff at risk, led to export restrictions on PPE, and later on hampered the country’s ability to address a second wave of the pandemic. This short paper calls for a fuller exploration of factors which hinder ‘‘implementation post-cognition.’’
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | COVID-19; disaster preparedness; risk analysis; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business |
Item ID: | 18791 |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/risa.14103 |
Depositing User: | Gail Sheppard |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2024 09:30 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Risk Analysis |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/18791 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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