Decoding the Pandemic - Couverture rigide

Chiu, Wen-Ta; Wu, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 103298385X ISBN 13 : 9781032983851

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 draws on the Iceberg Framework--a modified systems thinking model--to examine the deeper forces that shaped the pandemic's trajectory, from structural inequities and institutional fragility to shifting mental models and global behavioral patterns.

Authored by a former Taiwanese Minister of Health and an experienced health system leader, the book combines personal insight with international perspective, offering historical context, contemporary data, and strategic foresight. It situates COVID-19 among history's deadliest pandemics while critically exploring the events, systemic structures, and cultural responses that influenced the crisis. Structured in four parts, the book journeys from echoes of past pandemics and variant-driven disruptions to the hidden foundations of public health responses, culminating in a forward-looking reflection on how COVID-19 has reshaped our understanding of pandemic risk and resilience, while also offering readers a framework for enhanced preparedness in an era of converging global threats.

Timely, accessible, and analytically rigorous, Decoding the Pandemic is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners in public health, epidemiology, global health policy, and systems science--anyone seeking to understand not just what happened, but why, and what must change before the next pandemic arrives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Wen-Ta Chiu serves as the Co-CEO of AHMC Health System, a 10-hospital healthcare system in the USA, where he provides expert consultancy to drive hospital quality improvement, enhance patient safety, and optimize care processes. Previously, he was Minister at the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in Taiwan from 2011 to 2014. He represented Taiwan at the World Health Assembly (WHA) for four consecutive years and delivered four impactful speeches during his tenure.

Jonathan Wu is a prominent Chinese-American medical leader and founder of AHMC Health System, a network of 10 hospitals that has become one of California's most influential healthcare systems. He has built a comprehensive healthcare empire including a cancer center, health insurance company, and long-term care facilities. Dr. Wu also founded Alhambra Medical University and supported California Northstate University. During COVID-19, his pandemic leadership earned him recognition as "Hometown Hero of the Pandemic" by a U.S. Congressperson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 103298385X
• ISBN 13: 9781032983851
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible