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ArticleJMIR public health and surveillance2020

Canada's Decentralized "Human-Driven" Approach During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic.

Gregory Hansen, Amelie Cyr

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Article in JMIR public health and surveillance, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Regional Variability in COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate in Canada, February-December 2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gregory HansenJim Pattison Children's Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5355-714X
Amelie Cyr *Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8583-3332

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A country's early response to a pandemic is critical for controlling the disease outbreak. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of southeast Asian countries adopted centralized, coordinated, rapid, and comprehensive approaches that involved smart technology (the "techno-driven" approach). In comparison, Canada's approach appeared to be decentralized, uncoordinated, and slow, and it focused on educating citizens and enhancing social and human capital (the "human-driven" approach). We propose that in future pandemics, early and coordinated "techno-driven" approaches should receive more careful consideration to curtail outbreaks; however, these approaches must be balanced with protecting individuals' freedoms.

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Public Health PracticeCanadaCOVID-19HumansPandemicscoronavirus infectionCOVID-19public health

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PMID33315582
PMCPMC7759506

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