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Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was recognized in Wuhan, China. It was characterised by rapid spread causing a pandemic. Multiple public health interventions have been implemented worldwide to decrease the transmission of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). T...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34051769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11111-1 |
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author | Ayouni, Imen Maatoug, Jihen Dhouib, Wafa Zammit, Nawel Fredj, Sihem Ben Ghammam, Rim Ghannem, Hassen |
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description | BACKGROUND: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was recognized in Wuhan, China. It was characterised by rapid spread causing a pandemic. Multiple public health interventions have been implemented worldwide to decrease the transmission of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The objective of this systematic review is to evaluate the implemented public health interventions to control the spread of the outbreak of COVID-19. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Science Direct and MedRxiv for relevant articles published in English up to March 16, 2021. We included quasi experimental studies, clinical trials, cohort studies, longitudinal studies, case-control studies and interrupted time series. We included the studies that investigated the effect of the implemented public health measures to prevent and control the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). RESULTS: The database search using the predefined combinations of Mesh terms found 13,497 studies of which 3595 in PubMed, 7393 in Science Direct 2509 preprints in MedRxiv. After removal of the duplicates and the critical reading only 18 articles were included in this systematic review and processed for data extraction. CONCLUSIONS: Public health interventions and non-pharmaceutical measurements were effective in decreasing the transmission of COVID-19. The included studies showed that travel restrictions, borders measures, quarantine of travellers arriving from affected countries, city lockdown, restrictions of mass gathering, isolation and quarantine of confirmed cases and close contacts, social distancing measures, compulsory mask wearing, contact tracing and testing, school closures and personal protective equipment use among health workers were effective in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-81642612021-06-01 Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review Ayouni, Imen Maatoug, Jihen Dhouib, Wafa Zammit, Nawel Fredj, Sihem Ben Ghammam, Rim Ghannem, Hassen BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was recognized in Wuhan, China. It was characterised by rapid spread causing a pandemic. Multiple public health interventions have been implemented worldwide to decrease the transmission of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The objective of this systematic review is to evaluate the implemented public health interventions to control the spread of the outbreak of COVID-19. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Science Direct and MedRxiv for relevant articles published in English up to March 16, 2021. We included quasi experimental studies, clinical trials, cohort studies, longitudinal studies, case-control studies and interrupted time series. We included the studies that investigated the effect of the implemented public health measures to prevent and control the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). RESULTS: The database search using the predefined combinations of Mesh terms found 13,497 studies of which 3595 in PubMed, 7393 in Science Direct 2509 preprints in MedRxiv. After removal of the duplicates and the critical reading only 18 articles were included in this systematic review and processed for data extraction. CONCLUSIONS: Public health interventions and non-pharmaceutical measurements were effective in decreasing the transmission of COVID-19. The included studies showed that travel restrictions, borders measures, quarantine of travellers arriving from affected countries, city lockdown, restrictions of mass gathering, isolation and quarantine of confirmed cases and close contacts, social distancing measures, compulsory mask wearing, contact tracing and testing, school closures and personal protective equipment use among health workers were effective in mitigating the spread of COVID-19. BioMed Central 2021-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8164261/ /pubmed/34051769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11111-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Ayouni, Imen Maatoug, Jihen Dhouib, Wafa Zammit, Nawel Fredj, Sihem Ben Ghammam, Rim Ghannem, Hassen Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review |
title | Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review |
title_full | Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review |
title_short | Effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review |
title_sort | effective public health measures to mitigate the spread of covid-19: a systematic review |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34051769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11111-1 |
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