id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-350293-a09r0gjc Dubb, S.S. Coronavirus Pandemic: Applying a Whole-of-Society Model for the Whole-of-the World 2020-05-12 .txt text/plain 2298 134 46 During a pandemic, a national government is often considered solely responsible for dealing with the outbreak with local-based policies. The World Health Organisation (WHO) first proposed a whole-of-society (WoS) preparation plan in 2009 with risk management update in 2017 based upon lessons learned from the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic. The WoS approach aims to utilize the principles of complexity within systems and seeks to improve the global effort against pandemic infections, increase information sharing and further institutionalize pandemic responses. Although simple in theory, executing such measures requires national, political and local involvement incorporating the entirety of society, the so-called WoS pandemic collaboration. As the WHO raised the pandemic alert level the Taiwanese government, using the WoS model utilized many of the measures across multiple entities that we have started to witness in the UK also. Toward a collaborative model of pandemic preparedness and response: Taiwan's changing approach to pandemics ./cache/cord-350293-a09r0gjc.txt ./txt/cord-350293-a09r0gjc.txt