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social distancing
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reduction of human social interaction in an effort to prevent the spread of infectious disease
Social distancing is the practice of reducing how often and how closely people interact with each other, done to help prevent infectious diseases from spreading. It matters because limiting contact between people can slow down or reduce transmission of disease, which helps protect both individuals and communities.
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Research
15,099 papers- Social Distancing in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Associated Factors, Health Outcomes, and Implications.ReviewFamily & community health · 2024Liu J, Ouyang N, Mizrahi A et al.DOI: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000367
- Social Distancing.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2020Chang HADOI: 10.1007/s40596-020-01283-0
- Unveiling social distancing mechanisms via a fish-robot hybrid interaction.ReviewBiological cybernetics · 2021Romano D, Stefanini CDOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00867-9
- A social distancing measure governing the whole proteome.ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology · 2021Choi SI, Seong BLDOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2020.10.014
- 'Distant socializing,' not 'social distancing' as a public health strategy for COVID-19.ReviewPathogens and global health · 2021Pandi-Perumal SR, Vaccarino SR, Chattu VK et al.DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2021.1930713
- Infectious diseases and social distancing in nature.ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Stockmaier S, Stroeymeyt N, Shattuck EC et al.DOI: 10.1126/science.abc8881
- Determinants of social distancing adherence.Frontiers in public health · 2022Gerretsen P, Kim J, Brown EE et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.977857
- Social Distancing and Contact Tracing During the Great Plague of 1665.The American surgeon · 2022Nakayama DKDOI: 10.1177/00031348211065094
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Encyclopedic overview
People socially distancing while queuing to enter a supermarket in London during the COVID-19 pandemic Without social distancing and other pandemic containment measures, pathogens can spread exponentially. This graphic shows how early adoption of containment measures tends to protect wider swaths of the population.
In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. It usually involves keeping a certain distance from others (the distance specified differs from country to country and can change with time) and avoiding gathering together in larger groups.
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