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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