ArticleHealth economics, policy, and law2022
Belgium's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Evaluation study of the urban governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the city of Antwerp.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Qualitative comparative analysis of policies implemented by 26 European countries during the 2020 great lockdown.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Social and clinical risk factors associated with hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Brussels's deprived and multiethnic areas.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Municipal Pathways in Response to COVID-19: A Strategic Management Perspective on Local Public Administration Resilience.Administration & society · 2023Article
- COVID-19 policy analysis for 10 European countries.Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 as a social disease: qualitative analysis of COVID-19 prevention needs, impact of control measures and community responses among racialized/ethnic minorities in Antwerp, Belgium.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Belgium is often seen as an outlier in the international experience with the coronavirus disease 2019. We summarize the unfolding of the pandemic in Belgium from February to December 2020, discuss the countermeasures that were implemented and provide some explanations why the numbers indicate a stronger pandemic in Belgium than in its neighbouring countries. To some extent, the seemingly poor performance of Belgium is a measurement artefact. Yet, there were indeed particular factors in Belgium that unnecessarily increased the toll of the pandemic. In the first wave insufficient priority was given to protect care homes. The second wave was larger than necessary due to a failure to timely implement restrictive measures. The latter can, at least partly, be explained by a unique political situation: a temporary, minority government in the middle of a major crisis.
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