@article{ref1,
title="Reductions in mortality resulting from COVID-19 quarantine measures in China",
journal="Journal of public health (Oxford)",
year="2021",
author="Sun, Hongpeng and Tang, Zaixiang and Dong, Chen and Wang, Congju and Shen, Junjie",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: To explore the impact of quarantine measures on the cause of death. <br><br>METHODS: We use time series analysis with the data from death cause surveillance  database of Suzhou from January 2017 to December 2019 to estimate the expected  deaths from January to June 2020 and compare these expected deaths with the reported  numbers of deaths. <br><br>RESULTS: After the implementation of epidemic prevention measures  in Suzhou in the first 3 months, overall number of all-cause deaths declined for  5.36, 7.54 and 7.02% compared with predicted numbers. The number of deaths from  respiratory causes and traffic accidents declined shapely by 30.1 and 26.9%,  totally. When quarantine measures were released (April-June), however, the observed  numbers of total deaths exceeded the predicted deaths. People aged over 70 accounted  for 91.6% of declined death number in respiratory causes and people aged over 60  accounted for 68.0% of declined death number in traffic accidents. Women over the  age of 80 benefited the most from respiratory prevention (accounts for 41% of all  reductions), whereas women aged over 60 benefited the most from traffic control  (44%). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the whole population benefited from the epidemic  prevention measures especially elderly females. This study is a useful supplement to  encourage the government to develop regular preventive measures under the era of  normalized epidemic.  Keywords: CoViD-19-Road-Traffic <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1741-3842",
doi="10.1093/pubmed/fdaa249",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa249"
}