加拿大在 COVID-19 大流行期间对国际旅行的反应 - 媒体分析。

Canada's response to international travel during COVID-19 pandemic - a media analysis.

机构信息

Bruyere Research Institute, 85 Primrose Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1R 6M1, Canada.

WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translational and Health Technology Assessment for Health Equity, 85 Primrose Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1R 6M1, Canada.

出版信息

BMC Public Health. 2021 May 31;21(1):1028. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11082-3.

DOI:10.1186/s12889-021-11082-3

PMID:34059043

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8166365/

Abstract

BACKGROUND

The media play a critical role in informing the public about the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, international travel has been a highly contested subject at both the international and national levels. We examined Canadian media reporting on international travel restrictions during the pandemic, how these restrictions aligned with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), and how the narrative around international travel evolved over time.

METHODS

We analysed articles from Canada's top three national newspapers by circulation - The Globe and Mail, The National Post and The Toronto Star - published between Jan 1, 2020 - May 31, 2020. Our search yielded a total of 378 articles across the three newspapers. After removing duplicates and screening the remaining articles, we included a total of 62 articles for the analysis. We conducted a qualitative media content analysis by using an inductive coding approach.

RESULTS

Three major themes were identified within the articles. These included: 1) The role of scientific and expert evidence in implementing travel restrictions; 2) Federal legislation, regulation and enforcement of international travel measures; and 3) Compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines in travel restriction policy- and decision-making. The federal government relied primarily on scientific evidence for implementing international travel restrictions and fully exercised its powers under the Quarantine Act to enforce travel regulations and comply with the IHR 2005. The government embraced a rules-based international order by following WHO recommendations on international travel, contributing to a delay in border closure and travel restrictions until mid-March.

CONCLUSION

The media focussed significantly on international travel-related issues during the early phase of the pandemic. The dominant media narrative surrounded the need for earlier travel restrictions against international travel.

摘要

背景

媒体在向公众通报 COVID-19 大流行方面发挥着关键作用。在整个大流行期间，国际旅行在国际和国家层面都是一个极具争议的话题。我们研究了加拿大媒体对大流行期间国际旅行限制的报道，这些限制与《国际卫生条例（2005 年）》如何保持一致，以及围绕国际旅行的叙述是如何随时间演变的。

方法

我们分析了加拿大发行量最大的三份报纸（《环球邮报》、《国家邮报》和《多伦多星报》）在 2020 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 5 月 31 日期间发布的有关国际旅行限制的文章。我们的搜索在这三份报纸中共产生了 378 篇文章。在去除重复项并筛选出剩余的文章后，我们共纳入了 62 篇文章进行分析。我们采用归纳式编码方法进行了定性媒体内容分析。

结果

文章中确定了三个主要主题。这些主题包括：1）实施旅行限制中科学和专家证据的作用；2）联邦立法、监管和执行国际旅行措施；3）旅行限制政策和决策中遵守世界卫生组织（世卫组织）准则。联邦政府主要依靠科学证据来实施国际旅行限制，并充分行使《检疫法》赋予的权力来执行旅行规定和遵守《国际卫生条例（2005 年）》。政府通过遵循世卫组织关于国际旅行的建议，采取基于规则的国际秩序，导致边境关闭和旅行限制推迟到 3 月中旬。