Title
Preventive measures for health workers exposed to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2)
Other title
Medidas Preventivas para trabajadores de salud expuestos a COVID-19 (SARS)
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
University of Buckingham Press
Abstract
COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new coronavirus that presented an epidemic focus in China in December 2019 and was declared as a pandemic months later. Consequently, the health systems of most countries implemented preventive measures for their population, thus affecting health personnel, which is the first response force. According to the World Health Organization, 37 million health workers fell ill with COVID-19. In this article, we seek to identify strategies for the prevention of contagion of health personnel by COVID-19 that have obtained favorable results and present measures applicable to the Peruvian reality, focused on the personnel that make up the diagnostic process of COVID-19 and the health centers in operation during the health emergency due to COVID-19. It is concluded that temporary confinement in rotating days of health personnel, traffic control bundling, and adequate supply of personal protective equipment were those that have favored the lower incidence of cases of contagion in health personnel in the countries where they were used.
Start page
140
End page
146
Volume
20
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85137227492
Source
Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho
ISSN of the container
16794435
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