Zhang, Ziang, Liu, C., Nunkoo, R., Sunnassee, Vivek A. and Chen, Xiaoyan 2022. Rethinking Lockdown Policies in the Pre-Vaccine Era of COVID-19: A Configurational Perspective. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (12) 7142. https://doi.org/ijerph19127142
| Title | Rethinking Lockdown Policies in the Pre-Vaccine Era of COVID-19: A Configurational Perspective |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Zhang, Ziang, Liu, C., Nunkoo, R., Sunnassee, Vivek A. and Chen, Xiaoyan |
| 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. |
| Keywords | COVID-19 - epidemiology - prevention & control |
| lockdown policy | |
| high epidemic | |
| Pandemics - prevention & control | |
| Humans | |
| comparative policy analysis | |
| fsQCA | |
| Communicable Disease Control | |
| Policy | |
| COVID-19 | |
| SARS-CoV-2 | |
| Vaccines | |
| pandemic | |
| Article number | 7142 |
| Journal | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| Journal citation | 19 (12) |
| ISSN | 1660-4601 |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/ijerph19127142 |
| https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127142 | |
| PubMed ID | 35742409 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 10 Jun 2022 |
| Project | 51808392 |
| Funder | National Natural Science Foundation of China |