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Revista Española de Salud Pública
On-line version ISSN 2173-9110Print version ISSN 1135-5727
Abstract
ROMERO-SARITAMA, José Miguel; SIMALUIZA, Janneth and FERNANDEZ, Heriberto. Prevention measures to avoid COVID-19 spreading by: from the everyday to the technical-scientific actions. Rev. Esp. Salud Publica [online]. 2021, vol.95, e202104051. Epub July 04, 2022. ISSN 2173-9110.
Background:
In the attempt to reactivate the economy after several months of the pandemic generated by COVID-19, several South American countries have been forced to attenuate the restriction measures created to prevent contagion, leaving all the responsibility to citizens to safeguard their lives. Faced with this situation, the objective of the work was to promote good prevention practices against COVID-19 in the general population to avoid the collapse of the public health system.
Methods:
An exploratory review on prevention measures against COVID-19 was carried out in the databases Elsevier, Pubmed, Wiley, Scopus, Scielo and, in general, in academic Google, to obtain gray information.
Results:
The role of seven individual protection and prevention measures and barriers to stop the advance of community infections by COVID-19 were described and analyzed. Studies showed that the use of preventive measures can play a critical role in containing the pandemic. However, they can also provide a false security of protection, predisposing to neglect the correct use and handling of all containment measures.
Conclusions:
Given the drastic rise in infections and deaths from COVID-19 in Latin America, it becomes necessary to continue with biosecurity campaigns so that citizens are clear that prevention is an integrated process and that the use of one measure does not replace another.
Keywords : COVID-19; Anti-contagion barriers; Respiratory disease; Transmission mechanisms; Prevention; Public Health; SARS-CoV-2; Viruses.