СOVID-19 pandemic in the context of the health and the life operational protection

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Introduction. So far, there is no reliable scientific basis for forecasting and preventing pandemics. Around the world, there is public dissatisfaction with the authorities’ insufficiently prompt and effective actions to prevent the spread of Сovid-19. 

The purpose of the study is the formulation a significant problem of the complexity and effectiveness of the operational protective measures for the health and life of the population from COVID-19 in other epidemics and pandemics.

Material and methods. Based on the application of a systematic approach and the international methodology for the policy analysis, the author proposes the structuring of the emergency measures and the subjects of the socio-psychological factors analysis of the epidemics and the pandemics to determine a system of the quantitative indicators and the monitoring of the situation. 

Results. During the epidemics and the pandemics, it is necessary to take emergency measures and also to strive to prevent them based on an in-depth study of the causal relationships, in particular, the risks of the recurrence as a result of the increased traffic flows, urbanization, agricultural intensification, environmental degradation and the continued development of new species biological weapons. 

Discussion. Among the topical areas, it should be attributed the application of the restrictive measures both on the international and domestic air travel; the limiting the increase in population density in large cities with a focus on the standards of «social isolation»; more the adequate environmental protection, the reducing the risk of the infection transmission from the animals to the humans; the reduction of people infections with nosocomial infections. 

Conclusion. The author proposes to significantly restructure the analytical and other functions of the operational protection of the population health and life during epidemics and pandemics.

About the authors

Elena E. Rumyantseva

Economic Policy and Business Centre

Author for correspondence.
Email: e.p.centre@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6545-9099

MD, Ph.D., DSci., Professor, President of the Economic Policy and Business Center, Moscow, 105215, Russian Federation.

e-mail: e.p.centre@mail.ru

Russian Federation

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