The coronavirus pandemic and impacts on health actions in the first half of 2020: integrative review

Abstract

The objective of this work was to gather scientific evidence and verify manuals, guides, instructional protocols. Method: This is an integrative review with a selection of 11 articles available at PUBMED and in international journals published in January through April 2020. Results: It is possible to infer essential measures to minimize the impacts of the pandemic, when identifying a new coronavirus it generated challenges to contain the community transmission in the face of limited public health resources, to know the profile of the severity of the virus, to disinfect environments, to maintain an education and isolation of suspected cases. Conclusions: Based on the evidence obtained and the need for public health information, the importance of information about the new Coronavirus was found, in addition to more visible knowledge of the disease, contributing to a preventive and broad continuing education, reducing the impacts caused and the overload of health actions.