A perspective on impeding the COVID‐19 pandemic: Lessons from Mongolia's comprehensive countermeasure

[...]returning Mongols from various territories like Russia, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world are the bulk of the early cases causing a spike in the cumulative number of confirmed/positive cases. 9,10 The NCCD also intensified their surveillance and increased the testing frequency per pers...

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Published in:	Health science reports Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. e1017 - n/a
Main Authors:	Ganzon, Jerome G., Lin, Xu, Shehata, Dina J., Gandour, Georges, Turay, Foday U., Bah, Alhaji S., Camua, Angel Anthony R., Ahmadi, Attaullah, Lucero‐Prisno, Don Eliseo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01-01-2023 Wiley
Subjects:	Access to information Contact tracing COVID-19 Disease transmission Distance learning Education Geopolitics global health Health care policy health policy healthcare management Households Laboratories Mongolia Pandemics Primary care public health Mongolia China Europe Russia global health Mongolia health policy COVID‐19 public health healthcare management
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Summary:	[...]returning Mongols from various territories like Russia, Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world are the bulk of the early cases causing a spike in the cumulative number of confirmed/positive cases. 9,10 The NCCD also intensified their surveillance and increased the testing frequency per person entering the border. Furthermore, most of the positive cases were successfully treated and patients had fully recovered since the first wave as shown by having only two cumulative deaths on March 6, 2021. [...]even up to the present, there was a very large difference between cumulative confirmed cases (989,320) and cumulative deaths (2133) (Figure 1). The industry sector was hardest hit with a collective job loss of 71%, followed by services (50%) and agriculture (33%). Since job losses were twice as higher in the lower-income class employees and occurred even at the beginning of the first-round survey indicated that the poorer working class is most vulnerable and likely to experience wage income losses during the pandemic. 12 Although farmers had normal operations, the increase of agriculture-engaged households experiencing income losses (from 44% to 60%) in the second to third rounds was attributed to an interrupted demand-driven supply chain due to COVID-19 rather than Dzuds. 12 Meanwhile, about 85% of family businesses not engaged in agriculture reported impeded operation. While online classes were conducted for university students. 13 However, there are some learning activities that may require actual guided hands-on like laboratory work or clinical practice that requires live subjects. [...]online learning should only be considered as an option during high-transmission situations when classroom classes are not feasible. 14 IMPACTS ON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, POPULATION HEALTH, AND THEIR RESOLUTIONS The Canadian Nurses Association views primary health care (PHC) as clinical health care provided to individuals through community health service. 15 Meanwhile, PHC in the United States is referred to as “primary care” and is almost interchangeable with general or family medicine and may be administered by other healthcare workers but usually in a stringent facility. 16 The WHO otherwise defines PHC as holistic and encompassing the whole spectrum of patient care.
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ISSN:	2398-8835 2398-8835
DOI:	10.1002/hsr2.1017