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dc.contributor.authorFrank, John
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Andrew James
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-09T23:39:46Z
dc.date.available2021-09-09T23:39:46Z
dc.date.issued2020-11
dc.identifier270041100
dc.identifierb7c50b11-713b-4577-b168-1d2811ab5a90
dc.identifier85092230733
dc.identifier000590762900003
dc.identifier.citationFrank , J & Williams , A J 2020 , ' A simple tool for comparing benefits and “costs” of COVID-19 lockdown exit strategies ' , Public Health , vol. 188 , pp. 4-7 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.08.025en
dc.identifier.issn0033-3506
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2175-8836/work/80620773
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23930
dc.description.abstractAs several countries begin to exit various forms of COVID-19 “lockdown,” a simple epidemiological tool – Population Attributable Risk – can help guide decisions about specific exit policy options, by quantifying the proportion of “serious” (hospitalised) COVID-19 cases likely attributable to various combinations of individual risk factors at the population level, such as age alone, versus age combined with the presence of any chronic disease/risk factor. Using recent COVID-19 hospitalisation data from a large hospital network, and current Scottish population age structure and risk-factor prevalences, we show that the likely impact on adult hospitalisations would be very similar (an approximate halving, compared to full lockdown exit for all adults) for the most “moderate” and yet reasonably effective options for continued lockdown: continuing to restrict the social contacts of all persons over 65, compared to all persons over 50 with any chronic disease/risk factor. Other considerations are therefore of critical importance to this decision, such as the equity and acceptability of these two policy options, as well their likely economic impacts.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPublic Healthen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectLockdown exit strategyen
dc.subjectRisk-benefit analysisen
dc.subjectPopulation Attributable Risken
dc.subjectRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicineen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingen
dc.subject.lccRA0421en
dc.titleA simple tool for comparing benefits and “costs” of COVID-19 lockdown exit strategiesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Medicineen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Population and Behavioural Science Divisionen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.puhe.2020.08.025
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2021-09-10


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