A New Measure for Assessing the Public Health Response to a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak
subject: Contact Tracing, quarantine, isolation, Surveillance, Transmission, Republic of Korea
description: Contact monitoring is an essential component of the public health response to a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, and is required for an effective quarantine to contain the epidemic. The timeliness of a quarantine is associated with its effectiveness. This paper provides a conceptual framework to describe the process of contact monitoring, and proposes a new measure called the “timely quarantined proportion” as a tool to assess the adequacy of a public health response.
creator: Sung-il Cho
source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
publisher: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine
date: 2015
language: EN
identifier: DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.15.069
coverage: Public aspects of medicine, Medicine