Evaluation of Luxembourg's COVID-19 Response
Learning from the Crisis to Increase Resilience
As countries seek to learn from the COVID-19 crisis and increase their resilience for the future, evaluations are important tools to understand what worked or not, why and for whom. This report is the first of its kind. It evaluates Luxembourg’s responses to the COVID-19 crisis in terms of risk preparedness, crisis management, as well as public health, education, economic and fiscal, and social and labour market policies. While Luxembourg’s response to the pandemic has been particularly agile, preserving the country’s resilience will require maintaining high levels of trust in government, reducing inequalities, and laying the foundations for inclusive growth. The findings and recommendations of this report will provide guidance to public authorities in these efforts.
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The resilience of the Luxembourg health system to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the health of Luxembourg's population. The mobilisation of resources and actors around the interministerial crisis unit was remarkable, and enabled new systems to be developed rapidly and health services to expand to absorb the shock of the health crisis. However, the pandemic also revealed structural weaknesses in the healthcare system, suggesting a lack of preparedness. This chapter assesses the resilience of Luxembourg's health system, taking into consideration the direct and indirect effects of the health crisis. The strengths and weaknesses of the crisis management in Luxembourg are also analysed in terms of the level of pandemic preparedness, the mechanisms implemented to absorb the shock and contain the pandemic, and the policies put in place to help certain health system functions recover.
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