Social consequences of ebola containment measures in Liberia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Pellecchia, Umberto ^a   Crestani, Rosa ^b   Decroo, Tom ^b   Van Den Bergh, Rafael ^b   Al Kourdi, Yasmine ^b  

^a Médecins Sans Frontieresa Operational Centre   (Belgium)

^b Médecins Sans Frontieresa Operational Centre Brussels   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEATH; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LIBERIA; MALE; PERCEPTION; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STIGMA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; QUARANTINE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MALE; QUARANTINE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 84956684210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143036     Document Type: Article

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