INTRODUCTION

In May 2020, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) initiated the primary spherical of a nationwide survey to evaluate the continuity of important well being providers all through the COVID-19 pandemic within the Region of the Americas. Subsequently, three further survey rounds had been carried out, with the latest spherical in November–December 2022. The main targets of those surveys had been to:

1. Provide well timed insights into the adjustments and challenges skilled in offering and using well being providers through the pandemic.

2. Assist international locations in coverage dialogues and planning by figuring out crucial bottlenecks, facilitating mitigation efforts, and supporting the restoration towards high-quality important well being providers.

3. Generate globally comparable findings on the extent of disruptions throughout well being methods through the pandemic, together with monitoring indicators outlined within the WHO Strategic Response Plan for the Pandemic.

This abstract report presents the important thing findings from the collaborating international locations within the fourth spherical of surveys carried out in 2022. It offers an summary of the disruptions noticed on the time of the survey, analyzes the adjusted patterns of those disruptions primarily based on information from the 17 international locations and territories that participated in all 4 survey rounds, examines the mitigation measures applied, and highlights the persistent challenges in guaranteeing the restoration and continuity of important well being providers.

Furthermore, the report outlines how international locations have strengthened their institutional capacities to reorganize well being methods and providers, improve resilience, and put together for future emergencies.

A world report presents the detailed strategies, questionnaire, tracer providers assessed, and checklist of nations and territories collaborating within the fourth-round survey. The report is at this net hyperlink: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-EHS_continuity-survey-2023.1.

This abstract of key findings frames a dialogue of the outcomes much like earlier frameworks and the approaches endorsed by Member States through the pandemic, emphasizing the collective efforts towards attaining common well being and sustaining the uninterrupted supply of important well being providers.