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Analyzing Variability in Ebola-Related Controls Applied to Returned Travelers in the United States.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2020Review
- Controlling Tuberculosis in the United States: Use of Isolation and Other Measures Throughout the Country.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2017Article
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- Local Decision Making for Implementing Social Distancing in Response to Outbreaks.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
- Raising the Yellow Flag: State Variation in Quarantine Laws.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMPArticle
- The Check and Report Ebola (CARE+) Program to Monitor Travelers for Ebola After Arrival to the United States, 2014-2016.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
Public health authorities have adopted entry screening and subsequent restrictions on travelers from Ebola-affected West African countries as a strategy to prevent importation of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases. We analyzed international, federal, and state policies-principally based on the policy documents themselves and media reports-to evaluate policy variability. We employed means-ends fit analysis to elucidate policy objectives. We found substantial variation in the specific approaches favored by WHO, CDC, and various American states. Several US states impose compulsory quarantine on a broader range of travelers or require more extensive monitoring than recommended by CDC or WHO. Observed differences likely partially resulted from different actors having different policy goals-particularly the federal government having to balance foreign policy objectives less salient to states. Further, some state-level variation appears to be motivated by short-term political goals. We propose recommendations to improve future policies, which include the following: (1) actors should explicitly clarify their objectives, (2) legal authority should be modernized and clarified, and (3) the federal government should consider preempting state approaches that imperil its goals.
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