Open AccessYour Call Is Important to Us: COVID-19 and Trends in Public Health Unit Call Service Utilization
Author(s) -
Zachary Horn,
Alexandra M Uren,
Michael D. Young
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
disaster medicine and public health preparedness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.492
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1938-744X
pISSN - 1935-7893
DOI - 10.1017/dmp.2021.223
Subject(s) - public health , phone , preparedness , pandemic , unit (ring theory) , metropolitan area , medical emergency , landline , covid-19 , medicine , service (business) , business , psychology , disease , nursing , political science , marketing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics education , pathology , law
The aim of this study was to analyze coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) -related call data at Metro North Public Health Unit, Brisbane Australia, over the 2020 calendar year to assist surge preparedness.