A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola
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A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola.
The real missing link in Ebola control efforts to date may lie in the failure to apply core principles of health promotion: the early, active and sustained engagement of affected communities, their trusted leaders, networks and lay knowledge, to help inform what local control teams do, and how they may better do it, in partnership with communities. The predominant focus on viral transmission ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Promotion International
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0957-4824,1460-2245
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dav003