Community matters– Why outbreak responses need to integrate health promotion;Questions communautaires: Pourquoi faut-il que les réponses aux épidémies intègrent la promotion de la santé?;La comunidad importa: Por qué las respuestas a las epidemias tienen que incorporar la promoción de la salud

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-78

  Kickbusch, Ilona ^a   Reddy, K Srikanth ^a  

^a GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Community action; Ebola; Health promotion; Outbreak response

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PANDEMICS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84968662268     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975915606833     Document Type: Article

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