International approaches: the Covid-19 epidemic management

Abstract

Introduction. The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. The world’s states are involved in the race to slow down the spread of the disease by applying the recommendations offered by WHO and other international institutions. Their approaches point to social and medical. The purpose of this study was to analyze the strategies, tactics and actions of WHO and some of the countries according the management of COVID-19, in order to provide comprehensive information to all those interested in the subject.Material and methods: A secondary qualitative research was conducted, being a narrative review of the bibliographic sources taken from the PubMed databases, Medline, the WHO library, Infomedica library, until May 2020. The synthesis included 97 library sources. Results. Throughout the COVID-19 issue, WHO have provided recommendations for managing this: “Strategic preparedness and response plan”, “Global Surveillance for human infection with coronavirus disease”, “National capacities review tool for a novel coronavirus”, “Draft operational planning guidance for UN country teams”, “Surveillance strategies for COVID-19 human infection”. Based on them, most countries have developed their own strategies for the preparation and response to the infection and reoriented the main activities, including the provision of medical and social services for the population’s necessities Conclusions. A considerable worldwide effort in the management of COVID-19 pandemic has been made by WHO. The experience of countries that have faced this problem has shown that the pandemic can be limited when strategies for responding to pandemic are implemented.