Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California, Oakland, CA 94607, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 26;19(5):2747. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19052747.
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted rapid and innovative policymaking around the world at the national, regional, and local levels. There has been limited work to systematically document and characterize new and expanded local U.S. pandemic-era policies, which is imperative to better understand the policy variation and resulting health impacts during this unprecedented time. California, the most populous U.S. state, provides a case example of a particularly active policy response. The aim of this Brief Report is to summarize the creation and potential areas of application of a newly created publicly available California- and US-based COVID-19 policy database. We generated an extensive list of California and US policies that were modified or created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. From July-November 2021, we searched current and historical California and federal government websites, press releases, social media, and news sources and recorded detailed information on these policies, including coverage dates, eligibility criteria, and benefit amounts. This comprehensive dataset includes 39 public health, economic, housing, and safety net programs and policies implemented at both federal and state levels and provides details of the complex and multifaceted policy landscape in California from March 2020 to November 2021. Our database is publicly available. Future investigators can leverage the information systematically recorded in this database to rigorously assess the short- and long-term effects of these policies, which will in turn inform future preparedness response plans in California and beyond.
COVID-19 大流行促使全球各国、各地区和地方层面在国家层面上迅速制定创新政策。对于系统地记录和描述美国新的和扩大的大流行时期政策，以及在这一前所未有的时期更好地了解政策变化和由此产生的健康影响，所做的工作有限。加利福尼亚州是美国人口最多的州，为特别积极的政策应对提供了一个案例。本简要报告的目的是总结新创建的加利福尼亚州和美国基于 COVID-19 政策数据库的创建和潜在应用领域。我们生成了一份广泛的加利福尼亚州和美国政策清单，这些政策是为应对 COVID-19 大流行而修改或制定的。在 2021 年 7 月至 11 月期间，我们搜索了加利福尼亚州和联邦政府的当前和历史网站、新闻稿、社交媒体和新闻来源，并记录了这些政策的详细信息，包括覆盖日期、资格标准和福利金额。这个综合数据集包括 39 个公共卫生、经济、住房和社会安全网计划和政策，这些计划和政策是在联邦和州一级实施的，并提供了 2020 年 3 月至 2021 年 11 月加利福尼亚州复杂而多方面的政策格局的详细信息。我们的数据库是公开的。未来的研究人员可以利用该数据库中系统记录的信息来严格评估这些政策的短期和长期影响，这反过来又将为加利福尼亚州乃至其他地区的未来备灾应对计划提供信息。
