Ebola Interventions : Listen to Communities

Kutalek, Ruth ; Wang, Shiyong ; Fallah, Mosoka ; Sanford Wesseh, Chea ; Gilbert, Jeffrey

Elsevier

关键词: epidemic;    incentive scheme;    community-based health;    quarantine;    stigma;   

DOI  :  10.1016/S2214-109X(15)70010-0
RP-ID  :  102444

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

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.