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Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Mental Health: The Major Questions for Future Research in Global Mental Health

Kleinmann, A. (2011) C2

Ebola Response Anthropology Platform

IDS; University of Sussex; University of Exeter, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2014)

Anthropology has an important role to play in containing the current Ebola outbreak and the new Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP) offers an anthropological perspective on the issue. The si ... more

Medical Anthropology Study of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak in Liberia/West Africa

Omidian, P.; K. Tehoungue; J.Monger World Health Organization WHO (2014)

This study was carried out to better understand the local beliefs and practices likely to enhance or hinder efforts to respond to the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Liberia.

Community-based Reports of Co-Morbidity, Co-mortality, and Health-Seeking Behaviors in Four Monrovia Communities During the West African Ebola Epidemic

Sharon Abramowitz, Kristen McLean, Josephine Monger, Kodjo Tehoungue, Sarah McKune, Mosoka Fallah, Patricia Omidian Ebola Anthropology Platform (2015)

Assessment of the implementation of the national policy on orphans and vulnerable children in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria

Y. W. Olagbuji; O. H. Okojie Academic Journals; International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (2015) C2

Full Length Research Paper Received 23 March, 2015; Accepted 5 August, 2015 Vol.7(9), pp. 204-213, September, 2015 DOI: 10.5897/IJSA2015.0604 Article Number: F0D0DDC54848 ISSN 2006- 988x

Diabetes English/Farsi

Nutrition Education for New Americans project of the Department of Anthropology and Geography (2007) CC

Ebola and beyond: Equality, sustainability, security - interlaced challenges in a global development era

Leach, M. (2014)

This paper, originally presented as a Sussex Development Lecture, asks how the Ebola crisis might offer a lens to reflect on interlaced challenges around curbing inequalities, accelerating sustainability, and building inclusive, secure societies, and why these matter so much. And it discusses why ad ... more

Stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

Franco Mascayano, Thamara Tapia, Sara Schilling, Rubén Alvarado, Eric Tapia, Walter Lips, Lawrence H. Yang Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria (2016) CC

Stigma toward individuals with mental disorders has been studied extensively. In the case of Latin America and the Caribbean, the past decade has been marked by a significant increase in information on stigma toward mental illness, but these findings have yet to be applied to mental health service ... more

Ebola- local beliefs and behaviour change

Grant, C. HEART (2014)

What are the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making (around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and nature of burials) and can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola i ... more

Haemorrhagic Fevers in Africa: Narratives, Politics and Path ways of Disease an Response

Melissa Leach STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies (2008) C1

Ebola

Determinants of the Duration of Birth Intervals in Tanzania: Regional Contrasts and Temporal Trends

Yoder, P. Stanley, Joe L.P. Lugalla, and Richard F. Sambaiga ICF International (2013) C2

DHS Qualitative Research Studies No. 19

Ebola - Traditional healers, witch doctors, burial attendants

HEART (2015)

Ebola in Perspective

by Mary Moran and Daniel Hoffman (2014)

Cultural Anthropology Since early 2014, the international coverage of Africa has been dominated by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Much of that coverage represents the region as helpless and hopeless, a tragic victim of illogical beliefs and dan ... more

Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface

University of Geneva, Institute Pasteur, University of Montreal and Centre Virchow-VillerméUniversity Paris Descartes (2020) CC

Over the next 8 weeks, you will explore and learn about some of the major and current Global Health Challenges at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface: zoonotic emerging infections (e.g. Ebola, Nipah, MERS, Avian Influenza), antimicrobial resistance, neglected tropical diseases (e.g. rabies, leishma ... more

Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below

Sharon Alane Abramowitz, et al. (2014)

Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana

Ursula M Read, Edward Adiibokah and Solomon Nyame Globalization and Health (2009) CC

The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family hom ... more

The significance of death, funerals and the after-life in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia: Anthropological insights into infection and social resistance

Fairhead, J. (2014)

Draft, 8 October 2014

Ebola Myths, Realities and Structural Violence

ANNIEWILKINSON ANDMELISSA LEACH (2014)

The scale of West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has been attributed to the weak health systems of affected countries, their lack of resources, the mobility of communities and their inexperience in dealing with Ebola. This briefing for African Affairs argues that these explanations lack important contex ... more

Guide to community engagement in WASH
recommended

Niederberger, E.; S. Ferron and M. O'Reilly Oxfam (2016) C1

A practioner's guide, based on lessons from Ebola. This guide is a compilation of best practices and key lessons learned through Oxfam’s experience of community engagement during the 2014–15 Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It aims to inform public health practitioners and programme ... more