چکیده مقاله
Background: Non pharmaceutical interventions NPIs are public health measures that aim to preventand/or control COVID 19 transmission in the community This over view aimed to summarize themost common available options of NPIs on reducing COVID 19 transmission have been implementedglobally Materials and Methods: Eight databases: Medline, EMBASE, PyscINFO, Cochrane libraryEMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Sciences, Scopus, and WHO database of publications on COVID 19 forpeer reviewed studies that reported on potential non pharmacological interventions for COVID 19were searched from 1 December 2019 through 10 January 2023 We included systematic review studiesproposing NPIs for reducing COVID 19 transmission Two authors independently undertookscreening selection, data extraction, and quality assessment using AMSTAR 2, and SANRA Results: 15 related studies were included Evidence suggest that continued use of NPIs is the onlycontainment strategy until ‘herd immunity’ is achieved to reduce the severe disease and mortality There are three main categories of NPIs: individual hand hygiene, face masks environmental cleaning and ventilation of indoor spaces ; and community social distancing, isolation andquarantine According CDC recommendation , an early response, and a combination of NPIs shouldbe implemented simultaneously to maximize effectiveness However, most NPIs can have a negativeimpact on economies and the physical, mental and social wellbeing of the underlying population Therefore, their use should be guided by data on the local epidemiological situation, with the overallgoal of protecting the most vulnerable individuals in the society Conclusion: An early response and a combination of individual NPLs hand hygiene and use offacemasks , environmental NPLs cleaning and ventilation of indoor spaces , and community NPLs social distancing, isolation and quarantine are effective at reducing COVID 19 cases and deaths
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نویسندگان
Seyedeh Mozhgan Heidari
Pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad,Iran
Shahabaldin Sorouri
Assistant professor of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad Universityof Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran
Fahimeh Shakeri
Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Heidari, Seyedeh Mozhgan and Sorouri, Shahabaldin and Shakeri, Fahimeh,1402,An Overview of Existing Evidence for Non-PharmacologicalInterventions against COVID-19 Transmission,The 13th International Conference on Health, Treatment and Health Promotion
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