Knowledge, attitudes, and practices among members of households actively monitored or quarantined to prevent transmission of ebola virus disease-margibi county, liberia: February-march 2015

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 673-678

  Wilken, Jason A ^a   Pordell, Paran ^a   Goode, Brant ^a   Jarteh, Rachel ^b   Miller, Zayzay ^b   Saygar, Benjamin G ^c   Maximore, Leroy ^c   Borbor, Watta M ^b   Carmue, Moses ^c   Walker, Gregory W ^d   Yeiah, Adolphus ^c  

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

^b Peace Corps Liberia   (Liberia)

^c Margibi County Health Team   (Liberia)

^d Margibi County Health Administration   (Liberia)

Author keywords

Ebola Virus Disease; quarantine; transmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIBERIA; MALE; QUARANTINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIBERIA; MALE; QUARANTINE; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85026469696     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X17006720     Document Type: Article

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