Assignment: Government Econ-Policy DHA 721
Assignment: Government Econ-Policy DHA 721
DHA 721 WEEK 7 Impact of Government Economic Policy in Healthcare Literature Review Paper
Research a variety of scholarly peer-reviewed articles that discuss the role and impact of government economic policy in healthcare.
Select one article to complete an in-depth literature review.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word economic analysis brief about the article, including the following:
A discussion of the key elements covered in the article
An assessment of the economic policy recommendations for healthcare stakeholders to consider from this article.
Include at least three reputable current references to support your literature review.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.
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The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the
economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the
insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview
of the data sets used to measure social distancing and COVID-19 cases and deaths; (ii)
reviews the literature on the determinants of compliance and effectiveness of social
distancing; (iii) summarizes the literature on the socio-economic consequences of COVID19 and government interventions, focusing on labor, health, gender, discrimination and
environmental aspects; and (iv) discusses policy proposals.
The World has been gripped by a pandemic over the first half of 2020. It was identified as a
new coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2), and later
named as Coronavirus Disease-19 or COVID-19 (Qiu et al., 2020). While COVID-19 originated
in the city of Wuhan in the Hubei province of China, it has spread rapidly across the world,
resulting in a human tragedy and tremendous economic damage. By mid-June, there had
been over 8 million cases of COVID-19 globally, with over 436,000 deaths.
Given the rapid spread of COVID-19, countries across the World have adopted several
public health measures intended to prevent its spread, including social distancing (Fong et al.
(2020)).1 As part of social distancing, businesses, schools, community centres, and nongovernmental organization (NGOs) have been required to close down, mass gatherings have
been prohibited, and lockdown measures have been imposed in many countries, allowing
travel only for essential needs.2 The goal is that through social distancing, countries will be
able to “flatten the curve”, i.e., reduce the number of new cases related to COVID-19 from
one day to the next in order to halt exponential growth and hence reduce pressure on
medical services (John Hopkins University, 2020a).