scholarly journals Optimising COVID-19 Vaccination Policy to Mitigate SARS-CoV-2 Transmission within Schools in Zimbabwe

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1481
Author(s):  
Grant Murewanhema ◽  
Solomon Mukwenha ◽  
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira ◽  
Zindoga Mukandavire ◽  
Diego Cuadros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Vaccination Policy ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
School Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the learning of millions of children across the world. Since March 2020 when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Zimbabwe, the country, like many others, has gone through periods of closing and re-opening of schools as part of the national COVID-19 control and mitigation measures. Schools promote the social, mental, physical, and moral development of children. With this viewpoint, the authors argue that schools should not be closed to provide a measured and efficient response to the threats posed by the COVID-19 epidemic. Rather, infection prevention and control strategies, including vaccination of learners and teachers, and surveillance in schools should be heightened. The use of multiple prevention strategies discussed in this viewpoint has shown that when outbreaks in school settings are adequately managed, the transmission usually is low. The information presented here suggests that schools should remain open due to the preponderance of evidence indicating the overriding positive impacts of this policy on the health, development, and wellbeing of children.

Effective infection prevention and control strategies in a large accredited psychiatric facility in Singapore

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Poremski ◽  
Sandra Henrietta Subner ◽  
Grace Lam Fong Kin ◽  
Raveen Dev Ram Dev ◽  
Mok Yee Ming ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Community Transmission ◽  
And Control

The Institute of Mental Health in Singapore continues to attempt to prevent the introduction of COVID-19, despite community transmission. Essential services are maintained and quarantine measures are currently unnecessary. To help similar organizations, strategies are listed along three themes: sustaining essential services, preventing infection, and managing human and consumable resources.

scholarly journals Effective infection prevention and control strategies in a large, accredited, psychiatric facility in Singapore

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1238-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Poremski ◽  
Sandra H. Subner ◽  
Grace F.K. Lam ◽  
Raveen Dev ◽  
Yee Ming Mok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Psychiatric Facility ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Integrating the social sciences into the COVID-19 response in Alberta, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. e002672
Author(s):  
Myles Leslie ◽  
Raad Fadaak ◽  
Jan Davies ◽  
Johanna Blaak ◽  
PG Forest ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Communication ◽  
And Control

This paper outlines the rapid integration of social scientists into a Canadian province’s COVID-19 response. We describe the motivating theory, deployment and initial outcomes of our team of Organisational Sociologist ethnographers, Human Factors experts and Infection Prevention and Control clinicians focused on understanding and improving Alberta’s responsiveness to the pandemic. Specifically, that interdisciplinary team is working alongside acute and primary care personnel, as well as public health leaders to deliver ‘situated interventions’ that flow from studying communications, interpretations and implementations across responding organisations. Acting in real time, the team is providing critical insights on policy communication and implementation to targeted members of the health system. Using our rapid and ongoing deployment as a case study of social science techniques applied to a pandemic, we describe how other health systems might leverage social science to improve their preparations and communications.

scholarly journals Resources for Infection Prevention and Control on the World Wide Web

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 1585-1595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Johnson ◽  
Katherine Reyes ◽  
Marcus J. Zervos
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Experience and Challenges in Establishing Quarantine Facility for Suspected COVID-19 Cases: Field Briefing

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Shubha Garg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Environmental Cleaning ◽  
The World ◽  
Medical Waste Management ◽  
And Control

Introduction: Due to the unprecedented SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in late January 2020, many countries in the world imposed a travel ban. Governments across the world initiated repatriation operations for stranded nationals. It was important to instantly develop quarantine facilities for evacuees. As the disease was fairly new, data on it was sparse to fulfil the requirement. Objectives: We are sharing our experience of establishing and managing India’s first quarantine facility for repatriate nationals focusing on key parameters including infection prevention and control, environmental cleaning, and bio-medical waste management along with basic living requirements. Results: The facility housed a total of 617 evacuees from China and Italy. Among them, 17 were found to be positive on initial testing and one tested positive on the 14th day of testing. 25 contacts were traced and prescribed an additional quarantine period of fourteen days in the facility, and were discharged accordingly. All evacuees were put on community surveillance. Supply of logistics, manpower management, and ensuring compliance to protocols were some of the major challenges faced, for which appropriate actions were taken. Conclusion: Impeccable collaboration and coordination among different stakeholders is the most essential ingredient for the successful operation of any quarantine facility in the context of the current pandemic.

scholarly journals When do big problems far away become smaller than the problems closer to home: Lessons for antimicrobial resistance from Father Ted

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tjibbe Donker ◽  
Katie L. Hopkins ◽  
Susan Hopkins ◽  
Berit Muller-Pebody ◽  
Tim E.A. Peto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Admission Screening ◽  
Imported Cases ◽  
And Control

AbstractInfection prevention and control strategies aimed at reducing the occurrence of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) and other antimicrobial-resistant organisms often include advice about screening patients coming from hospitals with a known resistance problem, to prevent introductions into new hospitals by shared patients. We argue that, despite being an efficient method of identifying cases, admission screening for introduction prevention is only effective if the absolute number of imported cases from other hospitals outnumbers the cases coming from the hospital’s own patient population, and therefore is only a feasible control strategy during the start of an epidemic. When determining whether import screening is still advisable, we therefore need to be continuously reminded of how Father Ted so eloquently summarised the principles of perspective: “These are small, but the ones out there are far away”.

scholarly journals EFFICACY OF SARS-COV-2 VACCINES - A BIG CHALLENGE ?

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Saumya Srivastava ◽  
Vandana Sardana
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Vaccine Candidates ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections and the resulting disease, the coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19), have spread to millions of persons worldwide resulting in pandemic.The cases of Covid 19 doesn't seem to end to soon.There are about sixty-two million six hundred nineteen thousand three hundred ninety-ninecases at present in the world with India ranking second after USA with nine million three hundred ninetythree thousand thirty-nine cases.Adoption of infection prevention and control practices such as hand hygiene, respiratory etiquettes, and maintaining social distance are the important strategies for the containment of this deadly and stubborn novel corona virus.The multiple vaccine candidates are under trials,to evaluate their clinical efficacy.The vaccination aims is to generate immunity against COVID-19 and to protect oneself against the disease and limits the spread of disease to close contact

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