Department of Health Policy, The Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Department of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Int J Health Serv. 2020 Jul;50(3):271-275. doi: 10.1177/0020731420925449. Epub 2020 May 7.
This article analyzes how the neoliberal policies, such as the politics of austerity (with considerable cuts to social policy expenditures including medical care and public health services) and the privatization of health services, imposed by many governments on both sides of the North Atlantic, considerably weakened the capacity of the response to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy, Spain, and the United States.
本文分析了新自由主义政策(如在大西洋两岸的许多政府实施的紧缩政策(包括医疗保健和公共卫生服务在内的社会政策支出大幅削减)和医疗服务私有化)如何极大地削弱了意大利、西班牙和美国应对冠状病毒大流行的能力。