https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/1a058b06edd4347a69c33f473e459579.pdf 1c7a93dbc8a99fa791b7f6d20c39cb07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Comparing South Korea and Italy’s healthcare systems and initiatives to combat COVID-19 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ashwin Palaniappan, Udit Dave, Brandon Gosine Description An account of the resource Italy and South Korea have two distinctly different healthcare systems, causing them to respond to public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic in markedly different ways. Differences exist in medical education for both countries, allowing South Korean medical graduates to have a more holistic education in comparison to their Italian counterparts, who specialize in medical education earlier on. Additionally, there are fewer South Korean physicians per 1000 people in South Korea compared to Italian physicians per 1000 people in Italy. However, both countries have a national healthcare system with universal healthcare coverage. Despite this underlying similarity, the two countries addressed COVID-19 in nearly opposite manners. South Korea employed technology and the holistic education of its physician community, despite having a smaller proportion of physicians in society, to its advantage by implementing efficacious drive-through centers that test suspected individuals rapidly and with little to no contact with healthcare staff, decreasing the possibility of transmission of COVID-19. Conversely, Italy is presently considered the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe and has recorded the highest death toll of any country outside of mainland China. This is partially due to the reactionary nature of Italy’s public health measures compared to South Korea’s proactive response. The different healthcare responses of South Korea and Italy can inform decisions made by public health bodies in other countries, especially in countries across the Americas, which can selectively adopt policies that have worked in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 and learn from mistakes made by both countries. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource Pneumonia, Viral, health systems, Virus Diseases, Pandemics, Coronavirus infection, SARS virus Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DOI: 10.26633/RPSP.2020.53 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Pan American Health Organization Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, Public aspects of medicine, Medicine