EBOLA OUTBREAK OF 2014 AND THE BEHAVIOURAL PATTERN OF HEALTH WORKERS
Socio Cultural Factors Associated with Epidemics: The Case of 2014 Ebola Outbreak
... Ndika, 2014; Towner, Nichol, Comer, Ksiazek, & Rollin, ...that Ebola was purposely administered to African civilians in the form of a vaccination under the guise of humanitarian assistance (Gostin, ...
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Potential for broad-scale transmission of Ebola virus disease during the West Africa crisis: lessons for the Global Health security agenda
... the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic ...the Ebola outbreak response effort in Liberia included substantial support from international health workers and organizations, in addition to ...
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The role of risk perception in willingness to respond to the 2014–2016 West African Ebola outbreak: a qualitative study of international health care workers.
... of health workers to respond to infectious disease ...American health workers who volunteered to work in the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak found many were motivated by a belief ...
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Managing emerging transnational public health security threats: lessons learned from the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak
... The outbreak-specific data were obtained from the weekly WHO Ebola Situation Reports during which the key indicator data were uniformly published (March 18, 2015–October 21, ...infected health ...
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Epidemiology of Ebola virus disease transmission among health care workers in Sierra Leone, May to December 2014: a retrospective descriptive study
... where health systems and basic IPC capacities are weak or ...inadequate health care, increased nosocomial infec- tion, and further weakening of the ...the outbreak has also negatively affected ...
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Health workers perceptions and attitude about Ghana’s preparedness towards preventing, containing, and managing Ebola Virus Disease
... an outbreak in Ghana, others ...among health workers in the United States (US) also found that ...to Ebola patients with many expressing concerns about personal risk and danger to friends and ...
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Case-fatality Ratio Due to Ebola Virus Disease in North-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019
... Health workers involved in the fight against the tenth EVD outbreak are accounting for an important death toll while working to protect the ...current outbreak in ...of Ebola virus ...
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Mathematical assessment of the effect of traditional beliefs and customs on the transmission dynamics of the 2014 Ebola outbreaks
... three Ebola-stricken countries, health-care workers were overwhelmed ...[52]. Health-care facilities, which were weak in the first place, are now even more weakened ...of health-care ...
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A humanitarian response to the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak
... The outbreak continued to intensify, and the crisis evolved into a complex humanitarian emergency, marked by the complete breakdown of services and sig- nificant loss of human ...routine health services ...
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A Survey of UK Healthcare Workers' Attitudes on Volunteering to Help with the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
... March 2014, the World Health Organisation was officially notified of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease due to Zaire ebolavirus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra ...The outbreak was ...
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Using a mHealth tutorial application to change knowledge and attitude of frontline health workers to Ebola virus disease in Nigeria: a before-and-after study
... EVD outbreak in West Africa [31]. Dur- ing the EVD outbreak in Nigeria, a lot of misinformation was spread via social media about how drinking and/or bathing with salty water or eating bitter kola can ...
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The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Pujehun, Sierra Leone: epidemiology and impact of interventions
... healthcare workers (HCWs) involved in the management of the outbreak (three of them being co-authors of this study), survived case patients, and relatives of deceased case ...district health ...
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Assessment of the Potential for Spread of Deadly Ebola Virus across International Borders by Returnee Travelers and Humanitarian Health Workers from West Africa
... recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa is so far the largest and deadliest in recorded ...World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a public health emergency ...
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Determinants of patient survival during the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Bong County, Liberia
... largest Ebola outbreak in history ...the Ebola epidemic across the border from Guinea into ...healthcare workers and those receiving care, as well as those who attended funerals of confirmed ...
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Health Workers' Knowledge and Attitude about Ebola Virus Disease
... of Ebola virus is from 25% to 90% and no treatment has ever been found for it ...of Ebola; however, the precise spread route and mode of this disease have not been determined ...the Ebola virus ...
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A Study Of Prevalent Disease Ebola Based On The Sir Infect Mathematics Model
... since Ebola outbreak, it is concluded that the early spread of the virus obeied population growth model, based on the geographical location of the three annotations as well as the number of cases, roughly ...
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Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing of the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
... viral outbreak may in fact be infected with a different ...(October 2014 to March 2015), 23% of patients in Liberia were diagnosed with laboratory-confirmed Plasmodium infection (malaria) alone and not EVD, ...
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Assessment of Human Environment Interactions on Health and Safety Behaviour of Construction Workers
... work health and safety regulators, (such as introducing regulations, conducting inspections, imposing penalties for non-compliance and running industry campaigns) in achieving the desired policy outcome of ...
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Responses and Coping of Foreign Peace Keepers Working in Liberia to Threat of Ebola during the 2014 Outbreak
... During any outbreak like SARS, Influenza or Ebola there are two threats to a community—the disease and fear of the disease. There is an elevated level of stress and depression. Protective measures like ...
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Ethical considerations surrounding the response to Ebola: the Spanish experience
... The case of the Spanish assistant nurse raises an add- itional question, since one of the donors of the plasma received was a work colleague and member of same reli- gious order as the first missionary repatriated, who ...
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