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SUBMITTER: Hilyard KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3445335 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hilyard Karen M KM Freimuth Vicki S VS Musa Donald D Kumar Supriya S Quinn Sandra Crouse SC
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20101201 12
Government health measures in a pandemic are effective only with strong support and compliance from the public. A survey of 1,583 US adults early in the 2009 H1N1 (swine influenza) pandemic shows surprisingly mixed support for possible government efforts to control the spread of the disease, with strong support for more extreme measures such as closing borders and weak support for more basic, and potentially more effective, policies such as encouraging sick people to stay home from work. The res ...[more]