The Development of System and Mechanism on Surveillance, Protect,and Control Disease the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Epidemic in UbonRatchathani Health Network

Abstract

Purposes :To development of system and mechanism on surveillance, protect, and control disease the Coronavirus  disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in UbonRatchathani  health  network.

Study design: Action research: Technical action research. 

Materials and Methods : 94 of  participants were consists of executives from relevant agencies, doctors, academics, network and patients / relatives, had a roles in action planning, action taking, evaluating, and specifying learning.The implementation period of 10 months from March to December 2021. Data were collected using interview forms and record formsand  data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.

Main findings : 1) Systems and mechanisms on surveillance, prevention and control of the disease during the COVID-19 outbreak, It consists of public health safety measures, public relations measures Measures for activities that are at risk of spreading the disease medical preparation measures and health networks at all levels and cooperation measures and practices to prevent people's disease and the system and mechanism was theoretically reasonable/feasible, the overall system and mechanism for surveillance, prevention and control of COVID-19 virus disease was at a high level. 2) As for the effectiveness of system and mechanism, they were found that the surveillance and screening of all 192,769, entering UbonRatchathaniwas found in July, 2021, with 32,715 surveillance and screening of those traveling the most,followed by 31,903in December, Down was November 29,400  respectively, and found that there was a trend of surveillance and screening of people arriving in UbonRatchathani increased by 28.8%. In addition, it found that 23,369 a new cases, 193 deaths, 246 referrals and 23,369 admitted treatments, and that patients and their relatives had perceptions and behaviors related to the infection, covid-19 disease of the health network of UbonRatchathani, Overall, it was at a high level.

Conclusion and recommendations :The systems and mechanisms from this study resulted in the network being able to monitor, prevent and control disease in epidemic situations.