Combating the Spread of COVID-19 Through Community Participation

India has a vast population with a weak public health system, which is vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Economically and physically, India is in a state of considerable risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. Community participation through various measures is the only way to limit the spread of the viru...

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Autores principales: Khongsai, Lalgoulen, Anal, T. S. Shanghring Catherine, A.S., Rapheileng, Kh., Tomba Singh, Shah, Md. Kheiruddin, Pandey, Digvijay
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7371828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837833
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40609-020-00174-4
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author Khongsai, Lalgoulen
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description India has a vast population with a weak public health system, which is vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Economically and physically, India is in a state of considerable risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. Community participation through various measures is the only way to limit the spread of the virus. The present study investigates the possibility of social intervention and involvement in controlling the pandemics and its cascading effect. The study identifies 5 ‘S’, namely, segregation, sensitization, social fencing, solidarity, and social services, to control the disease through people’s participation that could throw insights into controlling the virus and minimizing the aftershock of the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-73718282020-07-21 Combating the Spread of COVID-19 Through Community Participation Khongsai, Lalgoulen Anal, T. S. Shanghring Catherine A.S., Rapheileng Kh., Tomba Singh Shah, Md. Kheiruddin Pandey, Digvijay Glob Soc Welf Article India has a vast population with a weak public health system, which is vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Economically and physically, India is in a state of considerable risk of the COVID-19 pandemic. Community participation through various measures is the only way to limit the spread of the virus. The present study investigates the possibility of social intervention and involvement in controlling the pandemics and its cascading effect. The study identifies 5 ‘S’, namely, segregation, sensitization, social fencing, solidarity, and social services, to control the disease through people’s participation that could throw insights into controlling the virus and minimizing the aftershock of the pandemic. Springer International Publishing 2020-07-21 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7371828/ /pubmed/32837833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40609-020-00174-4 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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