Psychosocial effects of an ebola outbreak at individual, community and international levels;Effets psychosociaux d’une flambée de maladie à virus ebola aux échelles individuelle, communautaire et international;Efectos psicosociales de un brote de ebola a nivel individual, comunitario e internacional

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 210-214

  Van Bortel, Tine ^a   Basnayake, Anoma ^a   Wurie, Fatou ^b   Jambai, Musu ^c   Koroma, Alimamy Sultan ^d   Muana, Andrew T ^e   Hann, Katrina ^f   Eaton, Julian ^g   Martin, Steven ^a   Nellums, Laura B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response   (Sierra Leone)

^c ADDO Caritas Freetown   (Sierra Leone)

^d Social Mobilization Action Consortium   (Sierra Leone)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

^f INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION   (Switzerland)

^g CBM International   (Togo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOM; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEAR; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; TRUST; AFRICA; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

GUINEA; LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA]; SIERRA LEONE;

AFRICA, WESTERN; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84959299574     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.15.158543     Document Type: Article

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