Open AccessEmerging Challenges and Threats for Dental Health Care Sector Attributable to COVID-19: Tale of a Developing Country
Author(s) -
Asma Pethani,
Raheel Allana,
Mehmood Hussain
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asia-pacific journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.572
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1941-2479
pISSN - 1010-5395
DOI - 10.1177/1010539520932708
Subject(s) - covid-19 , infection control , environmental health , business , transmission (telecommunications) , dental care , developing country , control (management) , outbreak , health care , medicine , economic growth , family medicine , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , computer science , virology , economics , pathology , telecommunications , artificial intelligence
Prevention and control of infection in dentistry is an essential matter that has gained immense attention in recent years. There exist a lack of scientific data about the cross-transmission and its associated risk, especially in the dental health care setting of Pakistan. This article will evaluate the emerging challenges and threats for the dental community in Pakistan attributable to the COVID-19 outbreak. There is a significant knowledge gap regarding the state- and institutional-level of infection prevention and control (IPC) policies and practices. In addition, not much is known about the development, implementation, and monitoring of IPC policies and its challenges.