Erratum to “Is the lockdown important to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic? Effects on psychology, environment and economy-perspective” [Ann. Med. Surg. 56 (2020) 38–42]

Atalan, Abdulkadir

doi:10.1016/j.amsu.2020.07.001

“…United but divided: Policy responses and people's perceptions in the EU during the COVID-19 outbreak. Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 124(9), 909–918 1 .…”

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COVID-19 lockdown controls and human rights abuses: the social marketing implications

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2020

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Background: This work is a situation analysis of reported human rights abuses that have characterized the COVID-19 controls and lockdown in some countries of the world. This is as documented by reliable mass media sources, relevant international organizations and human rights non-governmental organizations between January 2020 to April 2020. Methods: A combined content analysis, critical analysis, and doctrinal method is applied in this study in line with the reproducible research process. It is a secondary-data-based situation analysis study, conducted through a qualitative research approach. Findings: The findings revealed among other things that: COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews’ enforcement by law enforcement officers contravened some peoples’ fundamental human rights within the first month. Security forces employed overt and immoderate forces to implement the orders. The lockdown and curfew enforcements were not significantly respectful of human life and human dignity. The COVID-19 emergency declarations in some countries were discriminatory against minorities and vulnerable groups in some countries. Research limitations/implications: This report is based on data from investigative journalism and opinions of the United Nations and international human rights organizations, and not on police investigations or reports. The implication of the study is that if social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes were given to the law enforcement officers implementing the COVID-19 lockdowns and or curfews, the human rights and humanitarian rights breaches witnessed would have been avoided or drastically minimized. Originality: The originality of this review is that it is the first to undertake a situation analysis of the COVID-19 lockdowns and curfews human rights abuses in some countries. The study portrayed the poor level of social marketing orientations and risk communication and community engagement attitudes amongst law enforcement officers, culminating in the frosty police-public relationships.

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“…Any further responses from the reviewers can be found at the end of the article to be insignificant risk factors for COVID-19 severity (Atalan, 2020). Some studies also found that males are more at risk of COVID-19 than females, while people with respiratory diseases and lung cancer are more at risk (Coccia, 2020a), including the elderly.…”

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“…In response to this onerous call, many governments of the world have initiated containment measures aimed at preventing this rampaging enemy from exterminating their citizens (The Guardian, 2020a). Atalan (2020), observes that basic containment measures to prevent infection or reduce the spread of COVID-19 in many countries included lockdowns, vacation for schools, working from home, quarantine, hygiene protocols like washing of hands, and "stay at home" rules. Internews (2021) captured some of the COVID-19 containment measures in some countries to include lockdowns, quarantine, isolation, and sanitary cordon.…”

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“…However, the lockdown had both positive environmental and economic effects on societies. Environmentally, it brought a renewal of the environment and reduction in air pollutions, arising from the closure of factories and the reduction of both private and public transportation vehicles on the road, with a consequent positive impact on some countries' economies (Atalan, 2020;Chakraborty & Maity, 2020;. There were also increase in air quality in many parts of the world and reduction in carbon emissions during the lockdown (Coccia, 2021b;Saadat et al, 2020), surface water quality and improved lake water quality (Yunus et al, 2020).…”

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“…There were also increase in air quality in many parts of the world and reduction in carbon emissions during the lockdown (Coccia, 2021b;Saadat et al, 2020), surface water quality and improved lake water quality (Yunus et al, 2020). On the negative side, however, the lockdowns had some sour psychological effects on peoples' health, as it contributed to stress, depression and led to increase in mental health problems (Atalan, 2020;).…”

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Erratum to “Is the lockdown important to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic? Effects on psychology, environment and economy-perspective” [Ann. Med. Surg. 56 (2020) 38–42]

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COVID-19 lockdown controls and human rights abuses: the socioeconomic and social marketing implications

Do social restriction policies responding to COVID-19 pandemic associated with economic growth?

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