Fight against COVID-19 but avoid disruption of services for other communicable diseases (CDs) and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)

2020, National Center for Global Health and Medicine..

COVID-19 has been a global and grave public health threat. The number of deaths from COVID-19 has already surpassed by far that of fatalities from the top three communicable diseases (CDs): human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection, tuberculosis, and malaria. The toll from COVID-19 is also inevitably surpassing hepatitis toll by the beginning of 2021. Moreover, it should be noted that COVID-19 has seriously impacted health services for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes, hypertension, cancers, and cardiovascular diseases. The most common reasons for the disruption of health services are cancellations of scheduled treatments, a paucity in public transport and a lack of staff due to reassignment of a number of health professionals to COVID-19 works. It's an utmost import that scientifically and practically innovative and rational ways and actions are taken, so that deaths due to the simple lack of essential services for various CDs and NCDs are prevented.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2

Enthalten in:

Global health & medicine - 2(2020), 6 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 343-345

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mitsuya, Hiroaki [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Communicable diseases (CDs)
Editorial
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
SARS-CoV-2

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Date Revised 07.01.2021

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.35772/ghm.2020.01111

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319731596