Fangcang shelter hospitals: a novel concept for responding to public health emergencies [Summary]

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dc.contributor.authorHonerkamp, Yasineen
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-05T03:02:45Zen
dc.date.available2020-05-05T03:02:45Zen
dc.date.issued2020-05-03en
dc.description.abstractFangcang shelter hospitals are a novel public health concept. They were implemented for the first time in China in February, 2020, to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. The Fangcang shelter hospitals in China were large-scale, temporary hospitals, rapidly built by converting existing public venues, such as stadiums and exhibition centres, into health-care facilities. They served to isolate patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 from their families and communities, while providing medical care, disease monitoring, food, shelter, and social activities. We document the development of Fangcang shelter hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak in China and explain their three key characteristics (rapid construction, massive scale, and low cost) and five essential functions (isolation, triage, basic medical care, frequent monitoring and rapid referral, and essential living and social engagement). Fangcang shelter hospitals could be powerful components of national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as future epidemics and public health emergencies.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97963en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleFangcang shelter hospitals: a novel concept for responding to public health emergencies [Summary]en
dc.typeSummaryen

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