Managing ebola from rural to urban slum settings: Experiences from Uganda

African Health Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 312-321

  Okware, Sam I ^a   Omaswa, Francis ^b   Talisuna, Ambrose ^c   Amandua, Jacinto ^d   Amone, Jackson ^d   Onek, Paul ^e   Opio, Alex ^d   Wamala, Joseph ^d   Lubwama, Julius ^f   Luswa, Lukwago ^d   Kagwa, Paul ^d   Tylleskar, Thorkild ^g  

^a Uganda National Health Research Organisation   (Uganda)

^b African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation   (Uganda)

^c Public Health and Health Systems Research   (Kenya)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^e Department disease Control Ministry of Health ^*  (Uganda)

^f Uganda Virus Institute   (Uganda)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ebola; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; EXTENDED FAMILY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEADERSHIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL BELIEF; SUDAN EBOLA VIRUS; UGANDA; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; UGANDA;

EID: 84924856638     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v15i1.45     Document Type: Article

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