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Communication and Community Engagement in Disease Outbreaks
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Author:
- Erma Manoncourt; Rafael Obregon; Ketan Chitnis
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- ISBN:
- 978-3-03-092295-5
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 95
- Doody Core Title Score:
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This book provides readers with a critical, conceptual and applied understanding of the role of communication and community engagement for disease outbreak preparedness and response.
Until the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, for several years public health authorities and influential voices in the international public health community have warned of a pandemic and therefore a need to strengthen governments and communities’ ability to prevent and respond to it effectively to minimize its impact on lives and economies. While investments have focused on clinical, diagnostic, and vaccine research, preventing and minimizing the impact of disease outbreaks requires a wider socio-ecological systems approach that places communities at the centre of the response. Such an approach is still rare in public health practice. One of the key lessons that the authors have learned, and on which they reflect in the chapters, is that technical inputs will be as effective as they are fully integrated within the broader architecture of disease outbreak preparedness and response. The ten chapters of this contributed volume are organized under three parts: a conceptu
Until the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, for several years public health authorities and influential voices in the international public health community have warned of a pandemic and therefore a need to strengthen governments and communities’ ability to prevent and respond to it effectively to minimize its impact on lives and economies. While investments have focused on clinical, diagnostic, and vaccine research, preventing and minimizing the impact of disease outbreaks requires a wider socio-ecological systems approach that places communities at the centre of the response. Such an approach is still rare in public health practice. One of the key lessons that the authors have learned, and on which they reflect in the chapters, is that technical inputs will be as effective as they are fully integrated within the broader architecture of disease outbreak preparedness and response. The ten chapters of this contributed volume are organized under three parts: a conceptu
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Erma Manoncourt; Rafael Obregon; Ketan Chitnis
- ISBN:
- 978-3-03-092295-5
- Specialty:
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- Management
- Health Policy
- Community Health & Disease Prevention
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st Ed.
- Pages:
- 212
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 95
- Doody Core Title Score:
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