ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Rethinking Lockdown Policies in the Pre-Vaccine Era of COVID-19: A Configurational Perspective.
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Perspectives of senior health managers on COVID-19 response and challenges, lessons learned and opportunities against future outbreaks in Gauteng province, South Africa.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- A Cross-Sectional Survey of Different Types of School Bullying before and during COVID-19 in Shantou City, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Assessing the impact of local context and priorities regarding domestic disease outbreaks and imported risk on early pandemic response: Cross-continental comparisons.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The significance of lockdown policies for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic is widely recognized. However, most studies have focused on individual lockdown measures. The effectiveness of lockdown policy combinations has not been examined from a configurational perspective. This research applies fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine different lockdown policy combinations associated with high-epidemic situations in 84 countries. A high-epidemic situation can occur through three different "weak-confined" patterns of lockdown policy combinations. The findings demonstrate that a combination of lockdown policies is more successful than any single lockdown policy, whereas the absence of several key measures in policy combinations can lead to a high-epidemic situation. The importance of international travel controls can become obscured when they are the only measures adopted, and a high-epidemic situation can still arise where restrictions are placed on international travel but not on public transport or when workplaces are closed but schools remain open.
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