Key experiences of community engagement and social mobilization in the Ebola response;Des expériences clés d’engagement communautaire et de mobilisation sociale dans la réponse à Ebola;Experiencias clave de participación comunitaria y movilización social en la respuesta al Ébola

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-82

  Laverack, Glenn ^a   Manoncourt, Erma ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b International Union for Health Promotion and Education IUHPE   (France)

Author keywords

Anthropologists; Community action; Community engagement; Community resistance; Disease management; Ebola; Health promotion; Outbreak response; Public health; Social mobilization

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION; UNITED NATIONS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 84968561578     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975915606674     Document Type: Article

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