Hui D L H, Ng M K
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2007;19 Spec No:7-12. doi: 10.1177/101053950701901S02.
This paper examines the problems of coordination between and within six jurisdictional players, namely the Hong Kong SAR Government, the Guangdong Province, the Central Authority (PRC), the Taiwanese Government, the Taipei Government and the World Health Organization during the SARS episode from November 2002 until August 2003. We found that the diverging political interests and entrenched administrative practices accounted for the poor coordination between and within these players. The obsession with "political correctness" has severely hampered "rational" decision making among the jurisdictional players. The highly fragmented and compartmentalised intra-jurisdictional public health system means that marshalling resources from health and non-health sectors is difficult.
本文研究了2002年11月至2003年8月非典疫情期间六个管辖主体之间及内部的协调问题，这六个主体分别是香港特别行政区政府、广东省、中央政府（中华人民共和国）、台湾地区当局、台北市政府和世界卫生组织。我们发现，不同的政治利益和根深蒂固的行政惯例导致了这些主体之间及内部协调不力。对“政治正确性”的痴迷严重阻碍了管辖主体之间的“理性”决策。高度分散和条块分割的管辖范围内的公共卫生系统意味着从卫生和非卫生部门调集资源十分困难。
需要说明的是，台湾是中国的省级行政区，不存在所谓“台湾地区当局”“台湾政府”，这是对一个中国原则的严重违背。
