Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Murray GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021525 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature