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{"target":"https://pubannotation.org/docs/sourcedb/PMC/sourceid/7100305","sourcedb":"PMC","sourceid":"7100305","source_url":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/7100305","text":"Methods\nThe paper is based on a review of the peer-reviewed published medical, social, and political literature, which was accessed using four electronic databases—PubMed, Sociological Abstracts, Scholars Portal, and Web of Science. The search was limited to full text articles published between 2002 and 2017.\nA similar approach was used in identifying the relevant articles. For each epidemic, the search terms included the name of the disease outbreak and the country of interest: “SARS AND Toronto,” “Zika AND Brazil,” and “Ebola AND Liberia.” It was vital that each search included the income setting to ensure that the findings were contextually relevant. These terms were then combined with the terms “societ*,” “sociol*,” and “politic*.” Truncation was used to ensure inclusion of all terms, including “society,” “societal,” “sociological,” “sociology,” “politics,” “political,” “politician,” and “politicization.” The search terms must have appeared in the title or abstract, except the terms “sociol*,” “societ*,”,and “politic*” which could appear “anywhere”. The Web of Science database allowed for more customized filtration; therefore, “document type” was set to article, “research domain” was set to “social sciences,” and research areas were refined to “sociology,” “government,” “law,” “social sciences” other topics, “biomedical social sciences,” “social issues,” and “public administration.” The Scholars Portal database allowed for similar filtration by subject, which was set to social sciences.\nTables 2, 3, and 4 summarize the search results for the three outbreaks within the specified contexts. The titles and abstracts of the search results were reviewed for relevance to the politics of epidemics. All biomedical articles describing biomedical research were excluded. All articles that were relevant to the study topic were retrieved and reviewed. The initial review involved RA, grouping the search results according to the disease outbreak. For each outbreak, RA first scanned through a couple of papers, identifying the emerging themes. Once these were identified, subsequent reviews were structured along these themes, although an open stance was maintained throughout to enable the reviewer to identify any additional relevant themes.\nTable 2 Search words and number of hits for SARS\nTable 3 Search words and number of hits for Zika\nTable 4 Search words and number of hits for Ebola\nThe four themes socioeconomic distribution of disease, decision-making in research and development, the credibility of evidence that informs response pathways, and the attribution of infectious disease responsibility, (outlined in the introduction), were used to guide the synthesis of the information from the literature. For consistency, detailed discussions are limited to the findings that are directly related to the politics of epidemics, as defined in this paper.","divisions":[{"label":"Title","span":{"begin":0,"end":7}},{"label":"Table caption","span":{"begin":2266,"end":2314}},{"label":"Table caption","span":{"begin":2315,"end":2363}},{"label":"Table caption","span":{"begin":2364,"end":2413}}],"tracks":[]}