TESTING FOR COVID-19 IN LATVIA : ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
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2024-02-01
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Private–public partnership is a collaboration between two major sectors of a municipalities economy. It is a so called “win-win” partnership, where both parties can benefit in achieving their planned goals while working jointly. In December 2019, in China, the first reported cases of COVID-19 were detected. The virus spread quickly throughout China and reached Latvia in March 2020. In this study we analyse the role of private–public partnerships in organising effective COVID-19 testing of the population in Latvia. By 1 June 2020, Latvia had the 3rd lowest incidence of COVID-19-caused deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. This study included a systematic review, data acquisition, analysis of the findings, and conclusions were drawn and discussed. During the 1st wave of the pandemic, the private sector collected and conducted more than 95% of the COVID-19 testing in Latvia. The study showed that there could be many contributing factors to success of Latvia during the 1st wave of the pandemic, one of which was that Latvia seemed to rely more on the private sector to organise the testing, which seemed to pay off at first.
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Publisher Copyright: © The Authors This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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COVID-19 testing, primary healthcare, public–private partnership during pandemic, 3.3 Health sciences, 5.8 Media and Communication, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, General
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Kaļva, A, Orlovs, D, Briģis, Ģ, Kruks, S & Šmits, D 2024, 'TESTING FOR COVID-19 IN LATVIA : ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS', Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 111-116. https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2024-0016