Pak, Anton, and Adegboye, Oyelola A. (2021) The importance of structural factors in COVID-19 response in Western Pacific. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 33 (8). pp. 977-978.

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[Extract] After a year since novel coronavirus made news headlines, COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, with more than 172 million people infected and over 3.7 million deaths as of June 5, 2021. The pandemic has challenged the capabilities of governments and societies to provide an effective and timely response exposing their bureaucratic vulnerabilities, political agility, and competing interests.1 In addition, societies with high public trust and social capital have generally performed better, as the public trust amplifies the impact of stringency measures on people’s compliance behavior.2 In this article, we highlight the importance of timely imposition of government restrictions and the structural factors that helped limit the spread of the infection and then eliminate community transmission in both large and small nations in the Pacific.

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