Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak
Summary
Health systems are being confronted with rapidly increasing demand generated by the COVID-19 outbreak. When health systems are overwhelmed, both direct mortality from an outbreak and indirect mortality from vaccine-preventable and treatable conditions increase dramatically. Analyses from the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak suggest that the increased number of deaths caused by measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS
Category:
Manual
Link Source:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance
Publisher:
WHO
Published Year:
2020
