Efficacy of Mass Quarantine as Leverage of Health System Governance During COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mini Policy Review.

Mohammad Hossein Taghrir,Hossein Akbarialiabad,Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh

doi:10.34172/aim.2020.08

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https://doi.org/10.34172/aim.2020.08

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Abstract

On January 23, 2020, the Chinese government announced the city lockdown of Wuhan. Since then, there have been controversial debates among experts about the efficacy of mass quarantine, the oldest and probably one of the most effective methods for controlling infectious disease outbreaks. The impact of health policymaking section of health system governance becomes visible to all stakeholders and the public in such emergency contexts. The success and failure of such policies should be evaluated in order to find the proper course of action for the local and international communities. In this review, we aim to investigate the efficacy of mass quarantine in China during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We found good quality evidence for the effectiveness of mass quarantine during the current stage of COVID-19 pandemic, and these strategies seem to have been highly effective in controlling the spread of the disease.

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Quarantine has been a widely implicated method for many decades as one of the oldest and most effective methods for controlling communicable disease outbreaks
Quarantine is defined as the restriction of persons who have been exposed to a contagious disease, and Isolation is defined as the separation of ill individuals
Based on the above, the majority of studies confirmed the positive effect of implementing mass quarantine and movement limitations in China during the COVID-19 epidemic

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Quarantine has been a widely implicated method for many decades as one of the oldest and most effective methods for controlling communicable disease outbreaks. Quarantine is defined as the restriction of persons who have been exposed to a contagious disease, and Isolation is defined as the separation of ill individuals. These two words are being used interchangeably nowadays.[1]. China was the first government to impose quarantines and travel bans in Wuhan on January 23, 2020 and throughout the country They noticed that the disease would hardly be controlled without such strict restrictions.[4] The efficacy of health policies has always been of importance, especially during contagious disease outbreaks, and it deserves investigation

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