Abstract
Due to the conditions that cause the spread of COVID-19, national health systems worldwide are under severe strain. Most countries face similar difficulties such as a lack of medical personnel and equipment and tools for diagnosis and treatment, overrun hospitals, and forced restriction of planned medical care. Public authorities in healthcare take the following measures due to increased pressure: limiting the transmission and spread of the virus (social distancing and quarantine), mobilizing medical personnel, ensuring the availability of diagnostic and treatment tools, and providing a sufficient number of premises, which are not always suitable for the provision of medical care (buildings and structures). To date, the stages of management decision-making to counter coronavirus infection and the risk of COVID-19 transmission at various facilities have not been analyzed. The authors propose a methodology for assessing the COVID-19 transmission risk at various social and transport facilities. A survey of 1325 respondents from Moscow demonstrated the most significant risk factors, such as visitation avoidance, infection risk, and facemask wearing. Risk categories were determined and objects classified according to high, medium, and low-risk levels.
Highlights
Outbreaks of infectious diseases, which reach large numbers of people and cause enormous damage to the world economy, are becoming a new reality
This study aims to analyze regional organizational management decisions aimed at countering the spread of COVID-19 in public health [27]
Its composition is determined by the values of the variables’ positive signs in answer to the question “What are you doing to protect yourself from the coronavirus?” This factor can be identified as the “Behavior
Summary
Outbreaks of infectious diseases, which reach large numbers of people and cause enormous damage to the world economy, are becoming a new reality. Since the end of 2019, humanity has faced a new biological threat in COVID-19, which causes several clinical manifestations—from mild forms of acute respiratory infection to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)—associated with a long period of rehabilitation [1,2]. During the period of complete restriction of people’s movement and partial limits on social contacts, economic activity was almost completely stopped, and nearly half of the world’s population was in isolation [6,7], which has become one of the significant factors of the enormous economic damage, a revision of the paradigm of the development of public relations [8,9]. Epidemic preparedness reflects the ability of the public health, treatment, and prevention network and government agencies
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