Ebola virus disease stigmatization; The role of societal attributes

International Archives of Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Obilade, Titilola T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural beliefs; Ebola virus disease; EVD survivors; Filoviral hemorrhagic fever; Outbreak; Societal attributes; Stigma; Stigmatization; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICA; CHILD; CHOLERA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DIPHTHERIA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LEPROSY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PLAGUE; POWERLESSNESS; REVIEW; SANITATION; SCHOOL; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMALLPOX; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIETY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STIGMA; SURVIVOR; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED NATIONS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YELLOW FEVER; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

EID: 84929472170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17557682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3823/1613     Document Type: Review

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