Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa
COVID-19 has sickened and killed millions of people globally. Conventional non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly stay-at-home orders (SAHOs), though effective for limiting the spread of disease have significantly disrupted social and economic systems. The effects also have been dramatic in...
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| description | COVID-19 has sickened and killed millions of people globally. Conventional non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly stay-at-home orders (SAHOs), though effective for limiting the spread of disease have significantly disrupted social and economic systems. The effects also have been dramatic in Africa, where many states are already vulnerable due to their developmental status. This study is designed to test hypotheses derived from the public health policymaking literature regarding the roles played by medical and political factors as well as social, economic, and external factors in African countries’ issuance of SAHOs in response to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using event history analysis, this study analyzed these five common factors related to public health policy to determine their impact on African states’ varying decisions regarding the issuance of SAHOs. The results of this analysis suggest that medical factors significantly influenced decisions as did factors external to the states, while the role of political factors was limited. Social and economic factors played no discernible role. Overall, this study suggests how African leaders prioritized competing factors in the early stages of a public health crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-426a3d61cdb6485aac4d3f62f4c2b1fb2023-09-03T14:34:41ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLOS Global Public Health2767-33752022-01-0121Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in AfricaGregg R. MurrayJoshua RutlandCOVID-19 has sickened and killed millions of people globally. Conventional non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly stay-at-home orders (SAHOs), though effective for limiting the spread of disease have significantly disrupted social and economic systems. The effects also have been dramatic in Africa, where many states are already vulnerable due to their developmental status. This study is designed to test hypotheses derived from the public health policymaking literature regarding the roles played by medical and political factors as well as social, economic, and external factors in African countries’ issuance of SAHOs in response to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using event history analysis, this study analyzed these five common factors related to public health policy to determine their impact on African states’ varying decisions regarding the issuance of SAHOs. The results of this analysis suggest that medical factors significantly influenced decisions as did factors external to the states, while the role of political factors was limited. Social and economic factors played no discernible role. Overall, this study suggests how African leaders prioritized competing factors in the early stages of a public health crisis.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021525/?tool=EBI |
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| title | Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa |
| title_full | Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa |
| title_short | Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa |
| title_sort | prioritizing public health factors affecting the issuance of stay at home orders in response to covid 19 in africa |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021525/?tool=EBI |
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