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The response to COVID-19 in Timor-Leste: lessons learnt

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste offers lessons that may be useful for incorporating into future responses to infectious disease outbreaks in similar resource-limited settings. In this paper, we identify nine key areas for learning from Timor-Leste’s experience of the COVID-19 pa...

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Autores principales: Francis, Joshua R, de Araujo, Rui Maria, da Silva Viegas, Odete, Lobo, Sergio, Coelho, Danina, Mathur, Arvind, Bothra, Vinay, Yu, Dongbao, Draper, Anthony D K, Yan, Jennifer, Martins, Nelson
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10583031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37821115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013573
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author Francis, Joshua R
de Araujo, Rui Maria
da Silva Viegas, Odete
Lobo, Sergio
Coelho, Danina
Mathur, Arvind
Bothra, Vinay
Yu, Dongbao
Draper, Anthony D K
Yan, Jennifer
Martins, Nelson
author_facet Francis, Joshua R
de Araujo, Rui Maria
da Silva Viegas, Odete
Lobo, Sergio
Coelho, Danina
Mathur, Arvind
Bothra, Vinay
Yu, Dongbao
Draper, Anthony D K
Yan, Jennifer
Martins, Nelson
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description The response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste offers lessons that may be useful for incorporating into future responses to infectious disease outbreaks in similar resource-limited settings. In this paper, we identify nine key areas for learning from Timor-Leste’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) the importance of prior preparation for health emergencies, (2) the establishment of effective leadership and governance structures, (3) the protective impact of early border restrictions, (4) the rapid expansion of diagnostic laboratory capacity, (5) the impact of effective health communications in supporting the vaccine roll-out, (6) the opportunity to build capacity for clinical care, (7) the use of public health interventions that were found to have limited public health impact, (8) the broader effects of the pandemic and the public health response and (9) translation of lessons from COVID-19 to other public health priorities.
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spelling pubmed-105830312023-10-19 The response to COVID-19 in Timor-Leste: lessons learnt Francis, Joshua R de Araujo, Rui Maria da Silva Viegas, Odete Lobo, Sergio Coelho, Danina Mathur, Arvind Bothra, Vinay Yu, Dongbao Draper, Anthony D K Yan, Jennifer Martins, Nelson BMJ Glob Health Practice The response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste offers lessons that may be useful for incorporating into future responses to infectious disease outbreaks in similar resource-limited settings. In this paper, we identify nine key areas for learning from Timor-Leste’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) the importance of prior preparation for health emergencies, (2) the establishment of effective leadership and governance structures, (3) the protective impact of early border restrictions, (4) the rapid expansion of diagnostic laboratory capacity, (5) the impact of effective health communications in supporting the vaccine roll-out, (6) the opportunity to build capacity for clinical care, (7) the use of public health interventions that were found to have limited public health impact, (8) the broader effects of the pandemic and the public health response and (9) translation of lessons from COVID-19 to other public health priorities. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10583031/ /pubmed/37821115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013573 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Bothra, Vinay
Yu, Dongbao
Draper, Anthony D K
Yan, Jennifer
Martins, Nelson
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