Economic impact of the cost of personal protective equipment to face the Covid-19 Pandemic: Integrative literature review
International Journal of Development Research
Economic impact of the cost of personal protective equipment to face the Covid-19 Pandemic: Integrative literature review
Received 27th January, 2022; Received in revised form 14th February, 2022; Accepted 16th March, 2022; Published online 22nd April, 2022
Copyright©2022, Caroliny dos Santos Guimarães da Fonseca. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The COVID-19 disease was detected in Wuhan-China in December 2019; in March 2020, it was declared a pandemic. Due to the high transmissibility, there was a need to adapt protocols for the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to provide health care, substantially increasing its use. However, increased demand and production shortages culminated in rising costs. The aim of this study was to analyze the economic impact on the cost of acquiring PPE in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. An integrative literature review was performed in PubMed, LILACS and CINAHL databases. Global PPE inventories are insufficient, with increasing demand prices are rising, reaching up to 15 times the usual price. Considering the limited revenue of health institutions, opportunistic control of the increase in the prices of these inputs is necessary to maintain patient care.
