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Containment measures during the COVID pandemic: The role of non-pharmaceutical health policies.
- Source :
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Journal of Policy Modeling . Jan2023, Vol. 45 Issue 1, p90-102. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Many countries have imposed a set of non-pharmaceutical health policy interventions in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to examine the effects of the interventions, drawing on evidence from the OECD countries. A special feature here is the mechanism that underlies the impact of the containment policies. To this end, a causal mediation analysis decomposing the total effect into a direct and an indirect effect is conducted. The key finding is a dual cause-effect channel. On the one hand, there is a direct effect of the non-pharmaceutical interventions on the various health variables. Beyond this, a quantitatively dominant indirect impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions operating via voluntary changes in social distancing is shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COVID-19 pandemic
*HEALTH policy
*SOCIAL distancing
*SOCIAL change
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01618938
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Policy Modeling
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162437600
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2022.12.001