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salud publica mex 2022; 64 (6)

Five deficits to tackle by the future public health education

Santos-Burgoa C

Language: English
References: 28
Page: 541-543
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Throughout the world, we have been confronting a major public health event that has demonstrated the effectiveness of public health education (PHE) through the performance of public health professionals (PHP). The Covid-19 pandemic has stretched the science and organization of public health to its limits, at the global and national levels, as is the case of Mexico. The total impact of a public health crisis* is best identified by the Total Excess Mortality (TEM) as it sets aside the artifacts from diagnostic capacity and assesses the overall impact. More than duplicating or triplicating the deaths from diagnosed Covid-19, so far, we have accumulated anywhere from 14 to 23 million total excess deaths,1 much more than the 1918 Influenza pandemic reanalyzed estimates of 15 million deaths.


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