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Rethinking the COVID-19 Pandemic: Back to Public Health Cover

Rethinking the COVID-19 Pandemic: Back to Public Health

Annals of Global Health
Volume 86 (2020): Issue 1
By: Téa Collins,  Svetlana Akselrod,  Ashley Bloomfield,  Amiran Gamkrelidze,  Zsuzsanna Jakab and  Erika Placella  
Open Access
|Oct 2020
Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Coordinated Public Health and Medical Interventions for Emergency Preparedness and Response by Period.

Pre-pandemic Period (before a Pandemic starts)

  • Assessment of existing surveillance and recommended improvements for pre-pandemic and pandemic surveillance

  • Assessment of community mitigation strategies and recommended improvements

  • Stockpile building (antivirals, antibiotics, vaccines)

  • Service continuity planning/hospital preparedness plans

  • Public health workforce training

  • Simulation exercises

  • Risk transfer mechanism set-up

  • Situational awareness

Spark Period (when a Pandemic starts)

  • Initial outbreak detection

  • Pathogen characterization or laboratory confirmation

  • Risk communication and community engagement

  • Animal disease control

  • Contact tracing, quarantine, and isolation

  • Situational awareness

Spread Period (after a Pandemic starts)

  • Global pandemic declaration

  • Risk communication & public information

  • Contact tracing, quarantine, and isolation

  • Physical distancing

  • Stockpile deployment

  • Vaccine or antiviral administration

  • Care and treatment

  • Situational awareness*

[i] * Situational awareness includes passive and active animal and human disease surveillance and monitoring of public health facilities and resources.

Source: Adapted from Madhav N, Oppenheim B, Gallivan M et al. Pandemics: Risks, Impacts, and Mitigation. In: Jamison DT, Gelband H, Horton S, Jha P, Laxminarayan R, Mock CN, and Nugent R, editors. Disease Control Priorities: Improving Health and Reducing Poverty. Disease Control Priorities (third edition). Volume 9. 2018; Washington, DC: World Bank. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0527-1.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3084 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Published on: Oct 8, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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