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A Real-Time Review of Social Health Protection and Health Informatics Support for COVID-19 Outbreak

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Health informatics and technological advances have the potential to improve the monitoring of medical and social protection of patients with communicable and non-communicable diseases through a disease management program and to reduce the financial burden on healthcare. In this chapter, we present a review of decision support systems and electronic health record management as tools for data analysis and data sharing and their integration in real time into health supply chains and social health protection, making health policies more efficient, particularly for those targeting patients infected with coronaviruses in need of health assistance.

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    Refers to the ILO’s definition of Arab States. The ILO has identified a number of key economic sectors that will be particularly hit by the crisis and hence experience high levels of unemployment. Those sectors include accommodation and food services, manufacturing, real estate and business activities, and wholesale and retail trade. ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work. Third edition (ILO, 2020).

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    See also Impact of public health measures on informal workers livelihoods and health (WIEGO, 2020).

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    Mitigating the impact of COVID-19: Poverty and food insecurity in the Arab region (ESCWA, 2020).

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    Between a rock and a hard place, COVID-19 doubles the burden for millions of children in the Middle East and North Africa Region (UNICEF, 2020).

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    Idem.

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    https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/Working-paper/PDF/wp2020-43.pdf.

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    https://wir2018.wid.world/part-2.html.

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    Mitigating the impact of COVID-19: Poverty and food insecurity in the Arab region (ESCWA, 2020).

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    Disability Inclusive Social Protection Response to COVID-19 crisis (UNPRPD, ILO, UNICEF, International Disability Alliance, Embracing Diversity, 2020).

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  1. The National Institute of Labour and Social Studies, University of Carthage, Ariana, Tunisia

    Chokri Arfa

  2. The World Health Organization, Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt

    Ilker Dastan

  3. Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Computer Science Department, Lab. Cedric, Paris, France

    Kamel Barkaoui

  4. Computer Center of the Ministry of Health, Tunis, Tunisia

    Borgi Taoufik

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Arfa, C., Dastan, I., Barkaoui, K., Taoufik, B. (2022). A Real-Time Review of Social Health Protection and Health Informatics Support for COVID-19 Outbreak. In: Garg, L., Chakraborty, C., Mahmoudi, S., Sohmen, V.S. (eds) Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72752-9_2

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