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Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This five-page guidance for laboratories about provides coronavirus (COVID-19) information on suspected case definition; specimen collection and shipment; effective usage of global laboratory networking; testing of COVID-19 in reference laboratories; and reporting of cases and test results.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Tracking the Disease, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This two-page document provides recommendations on the initial care of persons with acute respiratory illness (ARI) in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in healthcare facilities based on a decision-making process flowchart.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vulnerable Populations, Pre-existing Medical Conditions, Health Facilities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document provides a template of standard operating procedures for research ethics committees to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the rapid review of human subjects research related to COVID-19. This publication supplements PAHO's guidance and strategies to streamline the ethics review and oversight of COVID-19-related research with human subjects.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Biomedical Research, Bioethics
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Bioethics, Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This brief, one-page ethics guidance provides four basic recommendations to guide the work of health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been developed on the basis of prior guidance, with adaptations to the context of the pandemic.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Health Facilities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 18-page document is a tool to help national authorities to develop or revise national pandemic preparedness and response plans to COVID‑19 (coronavirus). It has been developed to take into account the COVID-19 interim guidelines and the World Health Organization (WHO) guidance on topics related to pandemic influenza and public health emergency planning. Each section of the document presents a checklist of suggested planning actions that countries can take in order to be better prepared for a pandemic.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document offers an algorithm for the management of COVID-19 patients at the first level of care and in remote areas, with focus on early case identification-based on severity, and timely indications of remission.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vulnerable Populations, Health Disparities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This 10-page document provides laboratory biosafety guidelines for the handling and transport of samples associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and details why it is necessary to maintain and strengthen biosafety measures, including personal protection procedures, to work with samples from suspected cases of respiratory pathogen infection.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The precautions described in this four-page document are recommended for the care of patients with suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19). Recommendations are for any suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19: standard + contact + droplet precautions; for any suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 and aerosol-generating procedures (AGP): standard + contact + airborne precautions.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Patient Treatment and Experience
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This five-page document provides guidance regarding the operation of immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It contains recommendations on vaccination and epidemiological surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Region of the Americas.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This five-page document provides recommendations on the management of dead bodies in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in healthcare facilities.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Facilities, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The aim of this document is to function as a "first port of call" for national health policymakers to support their efforts to integrate and enhance equity, gender, ethnicity, and human rights considerations and approaches into measures responding to COVID-19. It also provides links to sources of related information and guidelines.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Disparities, Sex or Gender, Ethnicity, Social Dimensions, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This nine-page document offers health authorities and ethics review committees guidance and strategies with which to implement rapid and rigorous ethics review and oversight processes for COVID-19-related research with human subjects.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Bioethics, Biomedical Research
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The technical recommendations in this 22-page document outline how to set up the emergency medical team within hospitals to provide safe care to COVID-19 patients and others with severe acute respiratory infections.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Workforce, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document discusses the currently available assays for COVID-19, which can be classified into two groups, and how to interpret laboratory results for symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Biomedical Research, Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Health Workforce
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document reinforces some measures to follow per international emergency shelter protocols, factoring in conditions for spacing between beds/cots, recreation areas, and ventilation, according to The Sphere Handbook, FEMA, and Australian Red Cross. Physical distancing and hygienic standards were modified, highlighting that ideal requirements are not always feasible; therefore, realistic recommendations for practical purposes and suspected cases of COVID-19 may be chosen.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Basic Information, Health Disparities, Vulnerable Populations
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This technical note presents the key actions to support and protect populations that make use of shelters and transit homes during the COVID-19 emergency. It includes the promotion of hygiene and self-care measures, waste management, sanitation, cleaning and disinfection of spaces, access to safe water, hand washing, and social distancing.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Natural Disasters, Vulnerable Populations, People Experiencing Homelessness, Disaster Victims
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This five-page document provides guidance regarding vaccination of newborns with hepatitis B and BCG vaccines in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to maintain high vaccination coverage.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vaccines, Vulnerable Populations, Children, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This three-page technical note presents general recommendations to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 virus through heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in health care facilities.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Facilities, Prevention and Control/Risk Management
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This report discusses how indigenous populations, Afro-descendants, and members of other ethnic groups may run a greater risk of contracting COVID-19 for different reasons. It provides recommendations for indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, and members of other ethnic groups; community leaders; health workers; and governments.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Disparities, Ethnicity, Race
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document is intended to describe simple natural and mechanical ventilation measures that can be implemented as an extension of the PAHO Smart Retrofits project with the aim of reducing the risk of transmission of viruses like COVID-19.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Basic Information
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The technical recommendations in this 13-page guide provide information on the methodology for setting up medical coordination and information cells (CICOM, Spanish acronym) as a key function of health emergency operations centers (EOCs). This will facilitate decision-making on how to increase surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic through the deployment of emergency medical teams (EMTs) and the installation of alternative medical care sites (AMCS), in cooperation with integrated health services networks and prehospital health care systems.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Basic Information
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: Risk communication is an integral component of public health risk management and a core capacity under the International Health Regulations. This 16-page document provides suggestions, principles, and templates that will be essential to ensure that people understand the risks of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and follow authorities' recommendations to protect their health and the health of their loved ones.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) recommends that Member States ensure timely identification of suspect COVID-19 cases; collection and shipment of samples to reference laboratories; and implementation of molecular detection protocols, according to the laboratory capacity.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Biomedical Research, Basic Information
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document describes the essential interventions in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) that should be developed on an intersectoral basis in countries and communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its frame of reference is the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) intervention pyramid for MHPSS services, which shows different levels of support, ranging from social considerations, safety, and basic needs, to the provision of specialized services for the management of more severe conditions, as well as the probable volume of demand at each established level.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Basic Information
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This eight-page document details how the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) requests that Member States intensify efforts to ensure access to prenatal care services, as well as to implement preventive measures to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19 across all levels of the health system, in order to maintain the commitment to reducing maternal and perinatal mortality and the progress achieved to date.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English , Spanish
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Vulnerable Populations, Pregnant Women
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This document describes certification and classification (coding) of deaths related to COVID-19. The primary goal is to identify all deaths due to COVID-19. A simplified section specifically addresses the persons that fill in the medical certificate of cause of death.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Tracking the Disease
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This six-page document provides recommendations for water, sanitation, and hygiene measures in healthcare facilities that are important to provide adequate patient care and protect both patients and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes a table of disinfectant solutions and their uses.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Patient Treatment and Experience, Health Facilities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: This list of priority medical devices in the context of COVID-19 provides technical descriptions and specifications for the management of patients with suspected and/or confirmed COVID-19 infection at different levels of healthcare.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization , World Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Health Facilities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Health Facilities
Collection: Global Health Events web archive
Description: The technical recommendations in this 24-page document are designed to guide the steps in the assessment, redesign, and scaling up of new alternative medical care sites (AMCSs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Users will be able to quickly and methodically locate and determine the viability of new sites.
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Group: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak
Creator: Pan American Health Organization
Language: English
Type: Publication
Collector: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Keyword: Prevention and Control/Risk Management, Health Facilities
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