The impact of control strategies and behavioural changes on the elimination of ebola from lofa county, Liberia

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1721, 2017, Pages

  Funk, Sebastian ^a   Ciglenecki, Iza ^b   Tiffany, Amanda ^c   Gignoux, Etienne ^c   Camacho, Anton ^a   Eggo, Rosalind M ^a   Kucharski, Adam J ^a   Edmunds, W John ^a   Bolongei, Josephus ^d   Azuma, Phillip ^d   Clement, Peter ^e   Alpha, Tamba S ^d   Sterk, Esther ^b   Telfer, Barbara ^b   Engel, Gregory ^b   Parker, Lucy Anne ^b,f,g   Suzuki, Motoi ^b,h   Heijenberg, Nico ^b   Reeder, Bruce ^b,i  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c EPICENTRE   (France)

^d Ministry of Health and Social Welfare   (Liberia)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^g MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^h NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural changes; Community engagement; Infectious disease dynamics; Interventions; Isolation; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONTROL SYSTEM; DISEASE TREATMENT; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS;

LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA];

DISEASE ERADICATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LIBERIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DISEASE ERADICATION; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 85017294723     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0302     Document Type: Article

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