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Meta-Analysis
. 2019 Apr 22;16(8):1432.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph16081432.

Factors Influencing the Response to Infectious Diseases: Focusing on the Case of SARS and MERS in South Korea

Kyu-Myoung Lee  1 , Kyujin Jung  2
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Meta-Analysis

Factors Influencing the Response to Infectious Diseases: Focusing on the Case of SARS and MERS in South Korea

Kyu-Myoung Lee et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Following the 2003 the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this research aims to explore and examine the factors influencing the response to infectious diseases, which encompasses both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Through a qualitative research method, this research categorizes the factors as inputs, processes and outputs and applies them into the 2003 SARS and MERS outbreak in South Korea. As the results conducted meta-analyses to comprehensively analyze the correlations of factors influencing disaster response from a Korean context, the findings show that the legislative factor had direct and indirect influence on the overall process of infectious disease response and that Leadership of the central government, establishment of an intergovernmental response system, the need for communication, information sharing and disclosure and onsite response were identified as key factors influencing effective infectious disease response.

Keywords: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS); South Korea; infectious diseases; meta-analyses; severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Confirmed global cases of MERS-CoV (source: https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers-cov/en/).
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Categorization of the factors influencing disaster response.
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Coding framework.
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Figure 4
Model of factors influencing infectious disease response in Korea.
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