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Accounting for health inequities in the design of contact tracing interventions: A rapid review

BACKGROUND: Contact tracing has been a central control measure for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. However, without consideration of the needs of specific populations, public health interventions can exacerbate health inequities. AIM: The purpose of this rapid review was to determi...

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Autores principales: Mathevet, Isadora, Ost, Katarina, Traverson, Lola, Zinszer, Kate, Ridde, Valéry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8026168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33716194
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.03.010
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author Mathevet, Isadora
Ost, Katarina
Traverson, Lola
Zinszer, Kate
Ridde, Valéry
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description BACKGROUND: Contact tracing has been a central control measure for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. However, without consideration of the needs of specific populations, public health interventions can exacerbate health inequities. AIM: The purpose of this rapid review was to determine if and how health inequities were included in the design of contact tracing interventions in epidemic settings. METHODS: A search of the electronic databases MEDLINE and Web of Science was conducted. The following inclusion criteria were applied for article selection: (1) described the design of contact tracing interventions, (2) published between 2013 and 2020 in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, or Portuguese, (3) and included at least 50% of empiricism, according to the Automated Classifier of Texts on Scientific Studies (ATCER) tool. Various tools were used to extract data. RESULTS: Following screening of the titles and abstracts of 230 articles, 39 met the inclusion criteria. Only seven references were retained after full text review. None of the selected studies considered health inequities in the design of contact tracing interventions. CONCLUSIONS: The use of tools/concepts for incorporating health inequities, such as the REFLEX-ISS tool, and ‘proportionate universalism’ when designing contact tracing interventions, would enable practitioners, decision-makers, and researchers to better consider health inequities.
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spelling pubmed-80261682021-04-08 Accounting for health inequities in the design of contact tracing interventions: A rapid review Mathevet, Isadora Ost, Katarina Traverson, Lola Zinszer, Kate Ridde, Valéry Int J Infect Dis Review BACKGROUND: Contact tracing has been a central control measure for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. However, without consideration of the needs of specific populations, public health interventions can exacerbate health inequities. AIM: The purpose of this rapid review was to determine if and how health inequities were included in the design of contact tracing interventions in epidemic settings. METHODS: A search of the electronic databases MEDLINE and Web of Science was conducted. The following inclusion criteria were applied for article selection: (1) described the design of contact tracing interventions, (2) published between 2013 and 2020 in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, or Portuguese, (3) and included at least 50% of empiricism, according to the Automated Classifier of Texts on Scientific Studies (ATCER) tool. Various tools were used to extract data. RESULTS: Following screening of the titles and abstracts of 230 articles, 39 met the inclusion criteria. Only seven references were retained after full text review. None of the selected studies considered health inequities in the design of contact tracing interventions. CONCLUSIONS: The use of tools/concepts for incorporating health inequities, such as the REFLEX-ISS tool, and ‘proportionate universalism’ when designing contact tracing interventions, would enable practitioners, decision-makers, and researchers to better consider health inequities. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2021-05 2021-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8026168/ /pubmed/33716194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.03.010 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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