A University-Wide Preparedness Effort in the Alert Phase of COVID-19 Incorporating Community Mental Health and Task-Shifting Strategies: Experience from a Bornean Institute of Higher Learning
| Autor: | Mohammad Saffree Jeffree, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Nicholas Tze Ping Pang, Muhammad Syafiq Abdullah, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Nelbon Giloi, Mohd Rahimie Abd Karim, Azizan Omar, Mohamad Hafiz Mukhsam, Sahipudin Saupin, Yeap Boon Tat, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Loganathan Salvaraji, Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati, Syaza Putri Zainudin, Assikin Muhamad |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Universities media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Population Pneumonia Viral Psychological intervention 03 medical and health sciences Betacoronavirus 0302 clinical medicine Virology Political science medicine Humans education Empowerment Pandemics media_common Government education.field_of_study business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Public health Malaysia COVID-19 Articles Public relations Mental health Infectious Diseases Mental Health Preparedness Parasitology Health education business Coronavirus Infections |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |
| ISSN: | 1476-1645 0002-9637 |
| Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise, causing millions of confirmed cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Hence, the Malaysian government announced a Movement Control Order at the start of the containment phase to flatten the epidemiological curve. Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), a public university in Borneo, was accelerated into alert phase because of high risk of case importation from more than 400 China incoming undergraduates. Measures to mitigate the potential COVID-19 outbreaks in its population were taken by using conventional public health measures with special attention to task-shifting and widespread community mental health interventions. A Preparedness and Response Centre was established to overseer the mitigating measures happening inside the university. Measures taken included empowerment of frontline staff, strengthening of restrictions, strengthening university health center, vigorous contact tracing, widespread health education, maintaining cultural sensitivity, and establishment of early standard operating procedures and university continuity plans. Hence, UMS was able to ensure no importation of cases into its campus during both acute and containment phases at the nationwide level. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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