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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Ebola outbreak"”.
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Experiences of Nurses and Midwives during the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia, West Africa
<p>The 2014 – 2015 Ebola outbreak in the West African region resulted in many deaths and has been responsible for devastating health and socioeconomic upheaval. The decision of nurses and midwives whether or not to render care during outbreaks is vital for the containment of the disease. The …
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Diseased Identities: How the American Media Constructed the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
… in the American media coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the differing policy solutions they sometimes elicit. I hypothesize that there is a connection between identity construction and policy solutions that can be explored along two major trajectories. First, I find sources that prefer …
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Economic impact of Ebola virus disease in Western African countries.
The Ebola outbreak in Western Africa from 2014 to 2016 infected 28600 people and claimed lives of 11325 people. It is the worst and the longest Ebola outbreak since the first recorded Ebola outbreak in 1976. The World bank estimated the cost of this outbreak is approximately $4 billion. In this …
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THE CORNERSTONE OF A CONSPIRACY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN-WILDLIFE PERCEPTIONS IN THE MASS DISBELIEF IN THE EBOLA VIRUS, NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE
… the country come through two large-scale disease outbreaks, and have been in Sierra Leone at the outset of both. However, the scope of this thesis goes beyond the few years of my experiences there, and presents the country in the context of it’s years as a hub for both the export of human beings …
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COVID-19 perspectives, prevention behavior, and vaccine intention among health workers in Sierra Leone : a low-resource context
… workers, who were already affected by the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. However, there is limited research on health workers' COVID-19 experiences in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In this study, 24 in-depth interviews were conducted with health workers from three regions in …
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2014 Ebola newspaper coverage : through the lens of Orientalism
… States (U.S.) newspaper coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and its representation of West Africa in relation to the West. The study sought to determine whether the coverage reflected the theory of Orientalism, as defined by Palestinian-American philosopher Edward Said. Orientalism refers to …
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A multi-objective sequential stochastic assignment problem for Ebola entry screening
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa prompted a need to assess how deplaning passengers from West Africa should be managed. A 21-day quarantine requirement for deplaning passengers, based on their risk factors, was implemented at five international airports in the United States in late 2014. This …
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Adapting the Standard SIR Disease Model in Order to Track and Predict the Spreading of the EBOLA Virus Using Twitter Data
… was demonstrated during the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014. Using a meme based n-gram semantic usage model to search the Twitter database for indications of illness, flight and death from the spread of Ebola in Africa, principally from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Memes of …
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Global Health Security Agenda Legal Landscape Assessment
… in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak and their impact on the spread of the virus. The GHSA Legal Landscape Assessment will support countries with successfully applying and meeting the action package goals of the Global Health Security Agenda.</p>
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A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response
… workers responding to infectious disease outbreaks. The ability of the PPE supply chain to provide adequate and consistent supply when there is a large spike in demand has not been well-considered. Humanitarian logistics literature rarely considers infectious disease outbreaks as possible …
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FOLD : an open platform for adding context to stories
… the recent unrest in Ukraine, or the ongoing Ebola outbreak-are complex and require context to understand. Traditionally, news relies on a storytelling structure called the inverted pyramid, where key facts are introduced in the first paragraph, with subsequent paragraphs providing background …
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Evaluating the impact of point-of-care diagnostics on disease outbreaks in low resource settings
… diagnosis is critical during infectious disease outbreaks to enable early intervention measures and minimize risk of disease transmission. Recent outbreaks in low-resource settings have highlighted challenges with traditional laboratory-based diagnostic approaches including a dependence on …
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Novel Applications of Geospatial Analysis in the Modeling of Infectious Diseases
… Virginia to demographic data. The West African Ebola Outbreak of 2014 demonstrated the need to include mobility in predictive disease modeling. One can no longer assume that neglected tropical diseases will remain contained and immobile, and the assumption of random mixing across large areas is …
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Communicable Disease Control in New South Wales and globally
… to assess the source and extent of the outbreak. We found a further 15 HEV cases linked to the restaurant. Pork pate was consumed by all 17 diners. Pork livers used to make pate were traced back to a single Australian farm. This is the first reported outbreak of locally-acquired HEV in …
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Communicable Disease Control in New South Wales and globally
… to assess the source and extent of the outbreak. We found a further 15 HEV cases linked to the restaurant. Pork pate was consumed by all 17 diners. Pork livers used to make pate were traced back to a single Australian farm. This is the first reported outbreak of locally-acquired HEV in …
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Understanding Thermal Conditions, Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviours in Naturally Ventilated Multi-patient Wards in Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
… climate at one of the epicentres of the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak with the following main research objectives: a) to identify the spatial attributes linked with hospital design in the tropics before the 1940s; b) to define the associations between thermal conditions and spatial attributes, …