It's not only what you say, it's also how you say it: Communicating nipah virus prevention messages during an outbreak in Bangladesh

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Parveen, Shahana ^a,f   Islam, M Saiful ^a   Begum, Momtaz ^a   Alam, Mahbub Ul ^a   Sazzad, Hossain M S ^a   Sultana, Rebeca ^a   Rahman, Mahmudur ^b   Gurley, Emily S ^a   Hossain, M Jahangir ^a,c   Luby, Stephen P ^a,d,e  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research IEDCR   (Bangladesh)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Programme for Emerging Infections   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Anthropological approach; Bangladesh; Communication strategy; Contextual understanding; Nipah virus; Outbreak; Prevention messages

Indexed keywords

BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DATE (FRUIT); DRINKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NIPAH VIRUS; PERCEPTION; RESIDENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BAT; CAUSALITY; CHEMISTRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHOENIX (PLANT); PLANT EXUDATE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VIROLOGY;

PLANT EXUDATE;

ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CAUSALITY; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULTURE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRINKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NIPAH VIRUS; PHOENICEAE; PLANT EXUDATES; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84982845021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3416-z     Document Type: Article

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