Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities

Active case finding (which includes contact tracing) ensures early identification and prompt isolation of potential cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), leading to successful interruption of transmission in a community. Failure to identify and follow up all contacts could be enough to keep the outbre...

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Main Authors:	Kutalek, Ruth, Wang, Shiyong, Fallah, Mosoka, Sanford Wesseh, Chea, Gilbert, Jeffrey
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Elsevier 2015
Subjects:	epidemic incentive scheme community-based health quarantine stigma Ebola
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23176

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spelling	okr-10986-231762021-04-23T14:04:13Z Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities Kutalek, Ruth Wang, Shiyong Fallah, Mosoka Sanford Wesseh, Chea Gilbert, Jeffrey epidemic incentive scheme community-based health quarantine stigma Ebola Active case finding (which includes contact tracing) ensures early identification and prompt isolation of potential cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), leading to successful interruption of transmission in a community. Failure to identify and follow up all contacts could be enough to keep the outbreak going. In late November, 2014, Liberia's Ministry of Health and WHO Liberia did a rapid qualitative assessment (supported by the World Bank) of the perceptions of selected communities in Monrovia on an incentive scheme that intends to increase the reporting of EVD cases. 2015-12-01T20:43:33Z 2015-12-01T20:43:33Z 2015-03 Journal Article The Lancet Global Health http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23176 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Liberia
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description	Active case finding (which includes contact tracing) ensures early identification and prompt isolation of potential cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), leading to successful interruption of transmission in a community. Failure to identify and follow up all contacts could be enough to keep the outbreak going. In late November, 2014, Liberia's Ministry of Health and WHO Liberia did a rapid qualitative assessment (supported by the World Bank) of the perceptions of selected communities in Monrovia on an incentive scheme that intends to increase the reporting of EVD cases.
format	Journal Article
author	Kutalek, Ruth Wang, Shiyong Fallah, Mosoka Sanford Wesseh, Chea Gilbert, Jeffrey
author_facet	Kutalek, Ruth Wang, Shiyong Fallah, Mosoka Sanford Wesseh, Chea Gilbert, Jeffrey
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title	Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities
title_short	Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities
title_full	Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities
title_fullStr	Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities
title_full_unstemmed	Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities
title_sort	ebola interventions : listen to communities
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2015
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Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities

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