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What is Contact Tracing

Chapter 2
Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics
The process of identifying people who might have come into contact with an infected person.
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Strengthening Public Health Response to COVID-19 through Policy Learning and Policy Transfer
Walaa Atif Mansour (Nasr City Health Insurance Hospital, Egypt & City, University of London, UK), Omkolthoum ElSayed (Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt), and Wesam Mansour (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch002
Abstract
Disruption of the public health systems was an inevitable result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which put governments under severe pressure to make quick decisions in response to the policy challenges they faced. The virus created a state of confusion not only among countries and their governments but also across other organizations, including the international community and its organizations. Cross-country learning by sharing experiences and tacit knowledge was one critical approach for governments across the world to learn from and to follow, since the pandemic requires a deeper understanding of policy processes to be able to face those challenges. This chapter, therefore, focused on the ‘policy' implications of different countries' responses, with a special focus on WHO policies and guidelines and how they have been used and adapted in different contexts. The overall aim was to draw lessons for governments and organizations to strengthen the public health system during and post COVID-19 and any future pandemics.
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Chapter 11
Contact Tracing Apps in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Underlying Personal Data Processing
A disease control methodology that lists all people who have been in close proximity to a carrier of the virus so as to check whether they are at risk of infection and take the appropriate sanitary measures towards them.
Published in Chapter: Contact Tracing Apps in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Underlying Personal Data Processing; From: Modern Challenges and Approaches to Humanitarian Engineering
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Leveraging Wi-Fi Big Data Streams to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Contact tracing is used by health departments to prevent the spread of infectious disease. In general, contact tracing involves identifying people who have an infectious disease (cases) and people who they came in contact with (contacts) and working with them to interrupt disease spread (Neale et al., n.d. AU28: The in-text citation "Neale et al., n.d." is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: Leveraging Wi-Fi Big Data Streams to Support COVID-19 Contact Tracing; From: Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning
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Chapter 3
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Persons in Quarantine and Isolation Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Namibia: A Multi-Sectoral Response
The process of identifying, assessing, and managing people who might have come in contact and been exposed to a virus in order to prevent transmission.
Published in Chapter: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Persons in Quarantine and Isolation Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Namibia: A Multi-Sectoral Response; From: Epidemiological Research Applications for Public Health Measurement and Intervention
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Chapter 4
Use of Digital Technology to Deal With COVID-19
Contact tracing is the process of identifying, evaluating and managing people who have been exposed to the virus to prevent person-to-person transmission of the virus. Contact tracing has been used by health departments for decades to slow or stop the spread of infectious diseases.
Published in Chapter: Use of Digital Technology to Deal With COVID-19; From: The Role of Health Literacy in Major Healthcare Crises
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Chapter 3
Digital Transformation and Health Systems Performance in Global Settings During COVID-19
The process of identifying people who might have come into contact with an infected person.
Published in Chapter: Digital Transformation and Health Systems Performance in Global Settings During COVID-19; From: Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics
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