LMICs: Resources for COVID-19

European Network on Statelessness has been working with researchers from the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University and members across Europe to better understand how statelessness intersects with health rights at this crucial time for global public health.

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Date: Friday May 22 – 2020

• CT imaging features of 4121 patients with COVID-19
• Scoping review of COVID-19 research
• Sinonasal pathophysiology of SARS‐CoV‐2 and COVID‐19
• Midwife-led care in the United Kingdom and Ireland may be a cost-effective, safe alternative to medical-led care
• Decreasing the rate of avoidable readmissions to acute care hospitals

Date: Wednesday, May 20 – 2020

• Convalescent plasma or hyperimmune immunoglobulin for people with COVID‐19: effects are uncertain (search done 23 April 2020)
• Factors associated with the willingness of healthcare workers to work during an influenza public health emergency
• mHealth interventions in low- and middle-income countries
• Healthcare workers’ perceptions of risk and use of coping strategies for emerging respiratory infectious diseases
• Pharmacist‐provided non‐dispensing services in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Date: Friday, May 15 – 2020

• Assertive community treatment for adults with severe mental illness
• Antimicrobial stewardship interventions in the emergency department
• E‐learning for healthcare workers is as effective as face-to-face learning for improving knowledge and skills of healthcare workers
• Physician assistants can be effective in primary care
• Rural outreach programs for medical students

Date: Wednesday, May 13 – 2020

• High-deductible health plans reduce healthcare cost and use, including use of needed preventive service
• Formulary restrictions to reduce costs and use of prescription drugs may have unintended adverse consequences
• Copayment for health care services
• Biomathematical models to mitigate fatigue and fatigue-related risks in emergency medical services operations: effects are uncertain
• Advanced practice nurses can provide safe and effective primary care

Date: Friday, May 8 – 2020

• Contracting out to improve the use of clinical health services in low‐ and middle‐income countries
• Interventions for children, youth, and parents to prevent and reduce cyber or online abuse
• Community monitoring interventions to curb corruption and increase access and quality of service delivery in low‐and middle‐income countries
• Screening travelers for infectious diseases
• Task shifting between healthcare workers can reduce health costs

Date: Wednesday, April 29 – 2020

• Community‐based rehabilitation interventions for people with disabilities in low‐and middle‐income countries are effective
• Interventions to manage acute malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in low‐and middle‐income countries
• Financial benefits for child health and well‐being in low income or socially disadvantaged families in high-income countries
• Cash transfer programme increase school enrolment in low- and middle-income countries
• School‐based decision‐making in low‐and middle‐income countries

Date: Friday, April 24 – 2020

• Training and deployment of lay refugee and internally displaced persons to provide basic health services in camps
• Interactive telemedicine
• Emergency department crowding: causes, consequences and solutions
• Online social networks to help track a pandemic
• Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19: benefits and harms are uncertain

Date: Monday, April 20 – 2020

• Interventions to promote well‐being of children exposed to intimate partner violence
• GP co-operatives and walk-in centres to reduce attendance at emergency departments
• COVID-19 epidemiology
• Early mobilization or active exercise for critically ill ICU patients
• D-dimer is associated with severity of COVID-19

Date: Wednesday, April 16 – 2020

• Risk factors and risk factor cascades for communicable disease outbreaks in complex humanitarian emergencies
• Ethical guidance for disaster response
• Managerial supervision to improve primary health care in low- and middle-income countries: effects are uncertain
• Psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it in COVID-19
• Hand-hygiene interventions reduce illness due to acute respiratory infections in childcare, school and domestic settings in low- and middle-income countries

COVID-19 Aftershocks: Secondary impacts threaten more children’s lives than disease itself

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Gender Implications of Covid-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings

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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has produced a guideline on dead body management in hospital settings. This includes; standard precautions, training in infection and prevention control, proper removal of the body from isolation room or area, environmental cleaning and disinfectant, handing of a dead body in a mortuary, embalming, autopsies etc. 

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COVID19 Guidelines on Dead Body Management