Article: COVID-19 response by the Hopi Tribe: impact of systems improvement during the first wave on the second wave of the pandemic.
BMJ global health
2021 Volume 6, Issue 5
Abstract: ... deployed on the request of the tribe in response to increases in COVID-19 cases. Collaborating with Hopi ... in August. As cases increased in September-November, the improved capacity gained during the first wave ... COVID-19 surveillance reporting; (2) establishing the Hopi Incident Management Authority for rapid ...
| Abstract | The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation home to ~7500 Hopi persons living primarily in 12 remote villages. The Hopi Tribe, like many other American Indian nations, has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. On 18 May 2020, a team from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was deployed on the request of the tribe in response to increases in COVID-19 cases. Collaborating with Hopi Health Care Center (the reservation's federally run Indian Health Service health facility) and CDC, the Hopi strengthened public health systems and response capacity from May to August including: (1) implementing routine COVID-19 surveillance reporting; (2) establishing the Hopi Incident Management Authority for rapid coordination and implementation of response activities across partners; (3) implementing a community surveillance programme to facilitate early case detection and educate communities on COVID-19 prevention; and (4) applying innovative communication strategies to encourage mask wearing, hand hygiene and physical distancing. These efforts, as well as community adherence to mitigation measures, helped to drive down cases in August. As cases increased in September-November, the improved capacity gained during the first wave of the pandemic enabled the Hopi leadership to have real-time awareness of the changing epidemiological landscape. This prompted rapid response coordination, swift scale up of health communications and redeployment of the community surveillance programme. The Hopi experience in strengthening their public health systems to better confront COVID-19 may be informative to other indigenous peoples as they also respond to COVID-19 within the context of disproportionate burden. |
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| MeSH term(s) | COVID-19/ethnology ; COVID-19/prevention & control ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. ; Humans ; Indians, North American/statistics & numerical data ; Pandemics/prevention & control ; Public Health Surveillance ; United States/epidemiology |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-05-07 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
| ISSN | 2059-7908 |
| ISSN | 2059-7908 |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005150 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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