English
This article offers a cross-reading of this issue focusing on the public health measures taken by nine states and by the European Union in the face of the “first wave” of the COVID-19 epidemic. By looking at state interventions in access to health care, health services and the medical sector, it illustrates how most states tend to resort to similar formulae (lockdown, expanding hospital capacity, etc.) albeit within the framework of national mindsets shaped by the institutional and economic set-up of their healthcare systems.
Keywords
- COVID-19
- state
- healthcare system
- hospital
- health inequalities
- health professionals
- shortages of medical equipment
- access to health care
- lockdown
- health emergency