Open AccessExperience of the Brazilian health regulatory agency in coping with the covid-19 pandemic: preventive actions of infection in health services
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of developmental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2230-9926
DOI - 10.37118/ijdr.21298.03.2021
Subject(s) - pandemic , agency (philosophy) , covid-19 , public health , health care , business , disease surveillance , medicine , environmental health , disease , economic growth , infectious disease (medical specialty) , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , economics
COVID-19 is a public health problem worldwide. The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA) is responsible for preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), in conjunction with state and municipal health surveillance centers (VISAs). Thus, the present study aimed to relate the experience of ANVISA in organizing, preventing and monitoring COVID-19 in the country’s healthcare services. Given the emergency, ANVISA, VISAs and specialists developed sanitary strategies and actions to organize, prevent and monitor COVID-19, between December 2019 and March 2021, in order to establish national disease prevention measures, and collect HAI-COVID-19 data. A number of national regulations and recommendations were published, such as technical notes and risk alerts to prevent COVID-19, in addition to disseminating the measures adopted. The experience may contribute to organizing, preventing and monitoring COVID-19, provided the national measures established are adopted by healthcare services. The improvement in sanitary response processes to prevent COVID-19 in these services is essential to strengthening the Brazilian Health Regulatory System (SNVS) in the fight against the disease.