Ebola Outbreak Response: The Role of Information Resources and the National Library of Medicine

Love, Cynthia B.; Arnesen, Stacey J.; Phillips, Steven J.

doi:10.1017/dmp.2014.108

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“…The Ebola virus disease is an emergency situation in the area of international public health [1]. This disease emerged in West Africa in late December 2013 and led to a massive outbreak in places such as Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria [2].…”

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Persian language health websites on Ebola disease: less credible than you think?

Ansari

Hamzehei

Valizadeh-Haghi

2020

J. Egypt. Public. Health. Assoc.

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Background: Ebola virus disease is an emergency situation in the area of international public health for which currently, there is no standard treatment. Thus, there is an essential need for awareness of individuals about the Ebola disease and consequently its prevention. Internet and health websites are considered a source of health information about certain diseases. Therefore, in this study, the credibility of Persian-language websites on Ebola is assessed. Materials and methods: The term "Ebola" was searched using the Yahoo, Google, and Bing search engines. The first 30 websites resulting from each search engine were studied. Persian language was a prerequisite for inclusion. Duplicate and inaccessible websites were excluded and 62 websites were retained for evaluation. These websites were manually assessed by the researchers. The research tool was HONcode official toolbar as well as the checklist set by the researchers based on the HONcode of Conduct tool. The data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 software. Results: None of the retrieved websites was officially approved by the HONcode of Conduct. Moreover, the manual evaluation showed that none of them had fully considered the eight criteria of HONcode. The results showed that most of the retrieved websites (62%) were commercial. The justifiability criterion had been considered in 89% of the studied websites, but the authority criterion had been considered by only 16% of the websites. Conclusion and recommendations: Regarding the poor reliability of Persian websites on the Ebola disease, and considering that Persian language people prefer to read the information in their native language, it is recommended that the authorized health organizations introduce reliable health websites in the Persian language. This will help them to take part in active healthcare decision-making and disease prevention. Moreover, it is necessary to educate people especially Persian language ones about the website evaluation tools, which can be used to assess the credibility of health websites before consuming the information on those websites.

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confidence: 99%

Persian language health websites on Ebola disease: less credible than you think?

Ansari

Hamzehei

Valizadeh-Haghi

2020

J. Egypt. Public. Health. Assoc.

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“…Social cohesion, inclusive growth and community compassionate support in supporting the shared social, cultural and religious values and realities are the foundation to mitigate infectious diseases risks by finding acceptable and resilient preventative ways [8, 27, 28]. It is difficult to ascertain what technique or combination of tools and approaches could guarantee that Ebola would neither resurge nor spread in the future [29, 30].…”

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Rebuilding transformation strategies in post-Ebola epidemics in Africa

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Rebuilding transformation strategies in post-Ebola epidemics in West Africa requires long-term surveillance and strengthening health system preparedness to disease outbreak. This paper assesses reconstruction efforts from socio-cultural, economic and ecological transformation response approaches and strategies in improving sustainable survivors and affected communities livelihood and wellbeing. A comprehensive approach is required in the recovery and rebuilding processes. Investing in rebuilding transformation requires fostering evidence-based and effective engaging new investors partnership strengthening, financing community-based programmes ownership, novel socio-economic innovations strategies and tools against the evolving and future Ebola epidemics. Thus, there should be improved community partnership, health and economic rebuilding programmes to address mistrust and care underutilization, poverty and care access inequity at all levels. Implementing effective post-Ebola national ‘One Health’ approach coupled with climate change mitigation and adaptations strategies is urgent public health needs aiming at improving the quality healthcare access, delivery trust and uptake in anticipation of EVD immunization program, productivity and emerging economy.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-017-0278-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…The Ebola outbreak that has affected West Africa for over a year has captured the attention of audiences throughout the world. Much has been said and written about this tragic event in the popular media as well as in scientific journals [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] . The scientific community has certainly vigorously debated about the Ebola outbreak.…”

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Biomedical publications on Ebola and the 2014 outbreak

Ballabeni

Boggio

2015

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In this research note we examine the biomedical publication output about Ebola in 2014. We show that the volume of publications has dramatically increased in the past year. The rise reflects an impressive growth starting in the month of August, concomitant with or following the surge in infections, deaths and coverage in news and social media. Though non-research articles have been the major contributors to this growth, there has been a substantial increase in original research articles too, including many papers of basic science. The United States has been the country with the highest number of research articles, followed by Canada and the United Kingdom. We present a comprehensive set of charts and facts that, by describing the volumes and nature of publications in 2014, show how the scientific community has responded to the Ebola outbreak and how it might respond to future similar global threats and media events. This information will assist scholars and policymakers in their efforts to improve scientific research policies with the goal of maximizing both public health and knowledge advancement.

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Ebola Outbreak Response: The Role of Information Resources and the National Library of Medicine

Cited by 14 publications

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Persian language health websites on Ebola disease: less credible than you think?

Persian language health websites on Ebola disease: less credible than you think?

Rebuilding transformation strategies in post-Ebola epidemics in Africa

Biomedical publications on Ebola and the 2014 outbreak

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