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How to learn from our mistakes: Communication of health crises

Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review, 2016
Reviewing the communication during the health crises of the last thirty years is useful to verify that there are a number of repeated mistakes: untrained spokespeople with no communication skills, ambiguous messages, lack of communication plans for the ...
Javier Granda Revilla
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Preparing healthcare workers to work in Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Africa : training roolkit : course lectures & tabletop exercises [PDF]

These Ebola response training materials are intended only for healthcare workers preparing to work in Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Africa in response to the Ebola epidemic.

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Wearable Electronic Monitoring of Vital Signs in Hospitalised Adults: A Nursing Focused Scoping Review of Clinical, Economic and Implementation Outcomes

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To synthesise evidence on wearable devices for continuous vital signs monitoring in adult hospital inpatients, focusing on clinical effectiveness, nursing perspectives, workflow impact, patient experience and resource implications. Design Scoping review.
Sian Myfanwy Shaw, Sophie Bethan Shaw, Gillian Janes   +2 more
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Three Acts of Resistance during the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola Epidemic: A Focus on Community Engagement

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2019
Community engagement is commonly regarded as a crucial entry point for gaining access and securing trust during humanitarian emergencies. In this article, we present three case studies of community engagement encounters during the West African Ebola ...
Frédéric Le Marcis, Luisa Enria, Sharon Abramowitz, Almudena-Mari Saez, Sylvain Landry B. Faye   +4 more
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Sustained mental health outcomes from the youth readiness intervention: A four‐year effectiveness follow‐up of a hybrid type II trial in Sierra Leone

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Strategies to expand access to care and sustain evidence‐based mental health interventions (EBIs) must be tested within novel delivery platforms to extend the reach of services in fragile and conflict‐affected settings. Integration into broader development programs may help maintain long‐term effects.
Wijnand Van Den Boom, Kathryn Noon, Shuangshuang Yang, Renee Menart, Fatoma Momoh, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Matias Placencio‐Castro, Theresa S. Betancourt   +7 more
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A multiplex assay to detect mosquito species, bloodmeal host source and Plasmodium in malaria vectors using Nanopore amplicon sequencing

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Insectary‐reared mosquitoes were simultaneously assessed for species identification, bloodmeal source analysis and Plasmodium detection, using a single multiplexed sequencing run on the MinION sequencing platform. The method was applied to 150 insectary‐reared mosquitoes, representing nine species blood‐fed with five vertebrate hosts and 40 samples for
E. Abby Rogers, Dieunel Derilus, Christopher Sandi, Lisa Reimer, Audrey Lenhart, Lucy Mackenzie Impoinvil   +5 more
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Infection control: Ebola aware; Ebola beware; Ebola healthcare [PDF]

British Dental Journal, 2014
C, Scully, L, Samaranayake, S, Petti, R G, Nair   +3 more
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Ebola - en global trussel

, 2015
The main area of subject in this project is the Ebola outbreak in the West African countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea which took place in March 2014.
Frisgaard, Camilla
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Applying risk management and insurance theory to higher education: The University of Illinois pandemic insurance policy

Risk Management and Insurance Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Two colleges at the University of Illinois faced significant financial risk due to tuition revenue being concentrated among students from China and Hong Kong. In response, they designed and purchased a bespoke, multi‐year, dual‐trigger indemnity insurance policy covering tuition revenue losses from specified geopolitical and pandemic events, a
Jeffrey R. Brown, Morton Lane, Andrew Martin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of Ebola among Nigerians

, 2016
The objective of the author is to identify the factors that influenced the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about Ebola virus among Nigerian adults.
Chia Titor, Nguper
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