Isolation facilities for covid-19: towards a person centred approach

Jung, Anne-Sophie; De Foo, Chuan; Legido-Quigley, Helena; Miranda, J. Jaime; Haldane, Victoria; McKee, Martin; Perera, Niranjala; Grepin, Karen A.; Singh, Sudhvir; Wu, Shishi

dc.contributor.author	De Foo, Chuan
dc.contributor.author	Haldane, Victoria
dc.contributor.author	Jung, Anne-Sophie
dc.contributor.author	Grepin, Karen A.
dc.contributor.author	Wu, Shishi
dc.contributor.author	Singh, Sudhvir
dc.contributor.author	Perera, Niranjala
dc.contributor.author	Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.contributor.author	McKee, Martin
dc.contributor.author	Legido-Quigley, Helena
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-09T18:52:23Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-09T18:52:23Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/12159
dc.description.abstract	Chuan De Foo and colleagues argue that isolation facilities have the potential to interrupt the transmission of infectious agents, particularly in the earlier stages of infectious disease outbreaks, but they must deliver person centred care. Two years into the covid-19 pandemic, footage from isolation centres in Shanghai showing unrest have raised questions about the safety, utility, and appropriate use of such facilities. Confining people infected with a pathogen in a dedicated facility is not a new idea, nor are debates about the ethical basis or how such policies should be implemented while also safeguarding human rights. Historical examples of isolation include patients with tuberculosis, those with influenza in the 1918 pandemic, and typhoid carriers. The use of isolation to limit community spread of infectious diseases has not, however, been consigned to history. Isolation facilities were used in the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, and, on a larger scale, Ebola treatment centres were extensively used in West Africa in 2014-15 to break the chains of Ebola transmission.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	BMJ Publishing Group
dc.relation.ispartofseries	BMJ
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Isolation facilities	en_US
dc.subject	covid-19	en_US
dc.subject	person centred approach	en_US
dc.title	Isolation facilities for covid-19: towards a person centred approach	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-069558
dc.relation.issn	1756-1833