Cho Sung-il
Graduate School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
J Prev Med Public Health. 2015 Nov;48(6):277-9. doi: 10.3961/jpmph.15.069. Epub 2015 Nov 30.
Contact monitoring is an essential component of the public health response to a Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak, and is required for an effective quarantine to contain the epidemic. The timeliness of a quarantine is associated with its effectiveness. This paper provides a conceptual framework to describe the process of contact monitoring, and proposes a new measure called the "timely quarantined proportion" as a tool to assess the adequacy of a public health response.
接触者监测是中东呼吸综合征冠状病毒疫情公共卫生应对措施的重要组成部分，也是有效隔离以控制疫情所必需的。隔离的及时性与其有效性相关。本文提供了一个概念框架来描述接触者监测过程，并提出了一种名为“及时隔离比例”的新指标，作为评估公共卫生应对措施充分性的工具。
