Social mobilization and community engagement central to the Ebola response in West Africa: Lessons for future public health emergencies

Global Health Science and Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 626-646

  Gillespie, Amayam ^a   Obregon, Rafael ^a   Asawi, Rania El ^b   Richey, Catherine ^a   Manoncourt, Erma ^a   Joshi, Kshiitij ^b   Naqvi, Savita ^b   Pouye, Ade ^b   Safi, Naqibullah ^b   Chitnis, Ketan ^a   Quereshi, Sabeeha ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85019216333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2169575X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00226     Document Type: Article

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