COVID-19, Quarantines, Sheltering-in-Place, and Human Rights: The Developing Crisis

As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, quarantines and sheltering-in-place orders have become important public health tools but, as currently implemented, have eroded human rights, particularly for the marginalized, including essential workers, detainees, women, and children. Quarantines and shelt...

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Autores principales: Openshaw, John J., Travassos, Mark A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020
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Perspective Piece
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32504462
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0528
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description As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, quarantines and sheltering-in-place orders have become important public health tools but, as currently implemented, have eroded human rights, particularly for the marginalized, including essential workers, detainees, women, and children. Quarantines and sheltering-in-place orders must include explicit guarantees of human rights protections. We outline protections for the quarantined that communities and governments should strive to guarantee.
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spelling pubmed-74104472020-08-07 COVID-19, Quarantines, Sheltering-in-Place, and Human Rights: The Developing Crisis Openshaw, John J. Travassos, Mark A. Am J Trop Med Hyg Perspective Piece As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, quarantines and sheltering-in-place orders have become important public health tools but, as currently implemented, have eroded human rights, particularly for the marginalized, including essential workers, detainees, women, and children. Quarantines and sheltering-in-place orders must include explicit guarantees of human rights protections. We outline protections for the quarantined that communities and governments should strive to guarantee. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020-08 2020-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7410447/ /pubmed/32504462 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0528 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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