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  • Public Health
  • Political Science
  • Legal Epidemiology

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  • Governments globally enacted diverse policies to manage the COVID-19 pandemic starting in spring 2020.
  • Existing research often concentrated narrowly on social distancing measures.
  • A need existed for a comprehensive dataset capturing the full spectrum of governmental pandemic response strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the COVID Analysis and Mapping of Policies (COVID AMP) dataset.
  • To provide a broad, whole-of-government perspective on pandemic policy implementation worldwide.
  • To create a critical data source for analyzing global governance strategies during health crises.

Main Methods:

  • Compiled a dataset of nearly 50,000 policy measures from January 2020 to June 2022.
  • Included data from 150 countries, 124 intermediate areas, and 235 local areas.
  • Encoded up to 40 structured and unstructured characteristics per policy, including original source and text.

Main Results:

  • The COVID AMP dataset offers an unprecedentedly broad capture of pandemic policies.
  • It encompasses a wide range of policy types beyond social distancing.
  • Data includes detailed characteristics for each policy measure.

Conclusions:

  • The COVID AMP dataset is a vital resource for legal epidemiology and political science research.
  • It facilitates in-depth analysis of global pandemic governance and policy effectiveness.
  • This comprehensive dataset supports future studies on public health crisis management.