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Tag: Disease outbreaks
Article | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CASS, GOARN, UNICEF, University of Liberia, University of Oxford, University of Washington, WHO
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioural factors
A review of the current modelling methodologies and describe the challenges and opportunities for integrating them with social science research and RCCE practice.
Article | University of Sussex
Spillover or endemic? Reconsidering the origins of Ebola virus disease outbreaks by revisiting local accounts in light of new evidence from Guinea
Article | American University of Beirut
Mental health research in response to the COVID-19, Ebola, and H1N1 outbreaks: A comparative bibliometric analysis
The objective of this study is to use bibliometric analyses to assess the mental health research output related to the COVID-19 pandemic and compare it to that of the West...
Article | Harvard University
Institutional trust and misinformation in the response to the 2018–19 Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, DR Congo: a population-based survey
This study aimed to investigate the role of trust and misinformation on individual preventive behaviours during an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
Briefing | Anthrologica, IDS, UNICEF
Key considerations: burial, funeral and mourning practices in Équateur Province, DRC
This brief summarises key socio-cultural considerations concerning events related to death, burial, funerals (rites or ceremonies), and mourning in the context of the outbreak of Ebola in the DRC, June...
Briefing | SSHAP
The Context of Équateur Province, DRC
This brief summarises key considerations about the context of Équateur Province in relation to the outbreak, June 2018.
Report | IDS, SSHAP, UNICEF
Social Science in Epidemics: Ebola Virus Disease Lessons Learned
In this series past outbreaks are reviewed in order to identify social science ‘entry points’ for emergency interventions and preparedness activities.
Briefing | K4D helpdesk service
Lessons learned from Ebola outbreak 9 in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The report presents a brief background on situational factors in Equateur province of relevance to emergency health interventions, and a short summary of the 2018 Ebola outbreak and sequencing of...
Article | University of Sussex
Comparison of Social Resistance to Ebola Response in Sierra Leone and Guinea Suggests Explanations Lie in Political Configurations not Culture
Case study | SSHAP
Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the 2014 Guinean Ebola Epidemic
This SSHAP Case Study explains how an anthropologist negotiated a medically safe burial for a pregnant woman who had died of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in a Kissi community at...
Article | Anthrologica, CASS, UNICEF, University of Oxford
What questions we should be asking about COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: perspectives from the Social Sciences Analysis Cell in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
| SSHAP
RCCE Strategies to Overcome COVID-19 Fatigue in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa
The brief synthesises evidence published by UNICEF in a comprehensive review of the scientific and grey literature and the media.
