Balancing public health and civil liberties in times of pandemic

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic constitutes not only a danger for public health, but may also threaten civil liberties. Looking at the examples of recent events in Poland and Hungary, the authors argue that governments may misuse pandemic for their political advantage, thus endangering public health....

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Autores principales: Orzechowski, Marcin, Schochow, Maximilian, Steger, Florian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33462404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-020-00261-y
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spelling pubmed-78123332021-01-18 Balancing public health and civil liberties in times of pandemic Orzechowski, Marcin Schochow, Maximilian Steger, Florian J Public Health Policy Viewpoint The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic constitutes not only a danger for public health, but may also threaten civil liberties. Looking at the examples of recent events in Poland and Hungary, the authors argue that governments may misuse pandemic for their political advantage, thus endangering public health. Political decisions taken to stem the spread of pandemics should be limited and strictly proportionate to the situation. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021-01-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7812333/ /pubmed/33462404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-020-00261-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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