SCHOOLS FOR HEALTH. RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES FOR REOPENING SCHOOLS. AUTORES: JONES, E. (ET AL.). HARVARD T.H. CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

Abstract

La Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is an independent institution emerged within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since 1913, it has brought experts from a variety of disciplines to train the new generations of leaders in international health care and to design policies improving lives and health of the global population.
Within the context of the Healthy Buildings program, the authors, all of them scientists and researchers of the institution, carry out an analysis of the various strategies that can be applied to reduce the risks of transmission in school, in order to guarantee a safe reopening, taking into account, at all times, the diversity of
these centers, both in terms of material and architectural resources as well as students and teachers.
The report begins with a global overview of the health and educational crisis caused by SARS-CoV-2 and establishes a set of guiding principles that can be adopted to reduce risks within the school. After that, the proposal focuses in five areas of risk-reduction strategies: healthy classrooms, healthy buildings, healthy
activities, healthy schedules and healthy policies.
In each of these areas, the report suggests a Number of actions and measures that schools may adapt and customize, according to their own circumstances.
To conclude, the document provides an updated set of references (to scientific and medical papers from renown journals, that are) directly linked to each of the five risk reduction strategies areas so as to facilitate further research.