WHO — 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019‐nCoV): STRATEGIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PLAN
RESPONSE STRATEGY
The overall goal of the strategic preparedness and response plan is to stop further transmission of 2019‐nCoV within China and to other countries, and to mitigate the impact of the outbreak in all countries.
Taking the above into account, the strategic objectives of the plan are to:
- Limit human-to-human transmission, including reducing secondary infections among close contacts and healthcare workers, preventing transmission amplification events, and preventing further international spread from China;
- Identify, isolate, and care for patients early, including providing optimized care for infected patients;
- Identify and reduce transmission from the animal source;
- Address crucial unknowns regarding clinical severity, extent of transmission and infection, treatment options, and accelerate the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines;
- Communicate critical risk and event information to all communities, and counter misinformation;
- Minimize social and economic impact through multisectoral partnerships.
Healthsites.io is building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap.
Contact Healthsites to share baseline health facility data to OpenStreetMap
Key activities of Healthsites.io include:
- Enabling National health agencies and organisations to share and contribute data to OpenStreetMap
- Enables collaboration between national health agencies and volunteer communities
- Connecting multiple data streams to build higher quality data
- Supporting Human Centered Design to drive the development of the data
Saving health facility data to OpenStreetMap improves interoperability and harnesses the contributions of citizens, academic institutions, businesses and organisations who use the data in their daily operations. In addition to cost savings, improved health facility data supports epidemic preparedness, immunization programs, disaster response, Maternity care and Health capacity planning.
