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Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies
Many countries have imposed a set of non-pharmaceutical health policy interventions in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to examine the effects of the interventions, drawing on evidence from the OECD countries. A special feature here is the mechani...
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The Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36532102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2022.12.001 |
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author | Funke, Michael Ho, Tai-kuang Tsang, Andrew |
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description | Many countries have imposed a set of non-pharmaceutical health policy interventions in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to examine the effects of the interventions, drawing on evidence from the OECD countries. A special feature here is the mechanism that underlies the impact of the containment policies. To this end, a causal mediation analysis decomposing the total effect into a direct and an indirect effect is conducted. The key finding is a dual cause-effect channel. On the one hand, there is a direct effect of the non-pharmaceutical interventions on the various health variables. Beyond this, a quantitatively dominant indirect impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions operating via voluntary changes in social distancing is shown. |
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spelling | pubmed-97436942022-12-12 Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies Funke, Michael Ho, Tai-kuang Tsang, Andrew J Policy Model Article Many countries have imposed a set of non-pharmaceutical health policy interventions in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to examine the effects of the interventions, drawing on evidence from the OECD countries. A special feature here is the mechanism that underlies the impact of the containment policies. To this end, a causal mediation analysis decomposing the total effect into a direct and an indirect effect is conducted. The key finding is a dual cause-effect channel. On the one hand, there is a direct effect of the non-pharmaceutical interventions on the various health variables. Beyond this, a quantitatively dominant indirect impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions operating via voluntary changes in social distancing is shown. The Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2023 2022-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9743694/ /pubmed/36532102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2022.12.001 Text en © 2022 The Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Funke, Michael Ho, Tai-kuang Tsang, Andrew Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
title | Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
title_full | Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
title_fullStr | Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
title_full_unstemmed | Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
title_short | Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
title_sort | containment measures during the covid pandemic: the role of non-pharmaceutical health policies |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9743694/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36532102 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2022.12.001 |
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