This survey research study will focus on what people know about Ebola, their attitude toward other Ebola patient’s, and new prevention practice used to stop transmission of Ebola. The survey will be carried out in all of the fourteen districts in Sierra Leone to better understand the EVD outbreak on a national-level with cooperation from World Health Organization (WHO). A sample size beyond the minimum estimated sample of participants was used in order to attain 95% confidence level. Then the questionnaire data will be entered into a customized Excel-based system. The survey will be conducted from August 2018 until May 2019. This study will be an addition to past studies that were conducted at the time of the Ebola outbreak in 2014. This …show more content…
For the research survey, 50 families will be chosen randomly from each district of Sierra Leone. Of the 50 families, two members of each family will be selected consisting of one adult age of 21 and up and another young adult age 17 and older. The selected individual should represent the whole family response to their knowledge about Ebola, their attitude toward Ebola survivor, and any safety intervention used to disturb transmission of Ebola. If a family refuse to participate in the survey, then select another family from the same geographical area with matching …show more content…
The survey in Appendix A will be administrated in the native langue of Kiro verbally with cooperation from the World Health Organization (WHO). The survey collection team will consist of two groups of two people in each group and one supervisor to monitor the surveyor for quality control and safety purpose. The two teams and the supervisor had prior training in a proper way to administrate the survey. The surveyor will explain the purpose of the survey to each of the participants and will require obtaining verbal consent in the native language of Kiro form each of the participants and written signature on the first page of the survey. Then each of the surveyors will administer the survey verbally in Kiro to each of the participants independently, so each of the participant's response is not swayed by another participants response. The collected data will be transfer to an excel sheet and sent to a third party for
The Hot Zone is a true story about how the knowledge of the Ebola virus was first developed and the background behind it. The Ebola virus kills nine out of ten of its victims and it kills quickly and painfully. It is extremely contagious and the blood and vomit the victim lets out can spread the virus quickly. The Hot Zone goes into detail of the experience of getting to the bottom of the Ebola Virus.
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In recent decades, there are high numbers of the disease are breaking out worldwide. West Africa could be one of the most frequent happen area of the incidence of disease. These diseases easy to be spread and them usually can cause high risk of death. Ebola, one of the fast transmissible viruses, outbreaking wide in West Africa area recently. Ebola has caused 5,459 deaths out of 15,351 (Reuters, 2014) cases identified in Africa and the number of death is still climbing.
Ebola virus disease is the kind of thing that horror writers dream about, it brings the most frightening of infectious disease symptoms to mind. Just imagine victims bleeding from their eyes, ears and nose. The nonfiction book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and the 1995 movie Outbreak, are excellent examples of our perception of the disease. Ebola is highly infectious, rapidly fatal, deadly disease with a death rate of up to 90%, after the onset of symptoms. It is transmitted through direct contact with an infected person or primates bodily fluids like blood, saliva, urine, sperm, etc. or by contact with contaminated surfaces or equipment, including linen soiled by the infected person's body fluids. The disease is caused by members of a family
The general geographic region that has been most affected by the different strains of the Ebola virus is Central Africa, namely the cities of Zaire, Sudan, and Gabon. The first known occurrence of Ebola was found in a man by the name of Charles Monet, who had currently taken a trip...
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a viral disease that was first recorded in 1976, when an outbreak occurred in Yambuku, Zaire, a country that was latter renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo (Walsh, Biek & Real, 2005). During the outbreak 318 cases were recorded of which 280 (88%) died. Later the same year, an outbreak occurred in Sudan where 284 cases were recorded with fatality rate of 53%. The disease and the virus that cause it are named after River Ebola that passes though Yambuku. In the USA, Ebola killed several monkeys in Reston, Virginia in 1989 (Barton, 2006; CDC, 2000). Despite several other outbreaks, the disease has neither medically approved pre-exposure nor post-exposure interventions. However, ongoing research shows optimistic signs.
1). Beside the continual casualties the diseases caused, these two epidemics shared common qualities when it comes to the level of preparedness and views held by both locations. The first similarity is the economic situation in rural China and West Africa. They both lived deeply in poverty and relied on the bare minimum when it came to food, water, and shelter. This fact predisposes them to being infected by an outbreak (Buseh, Stevens, Bromberg, & Kelber, 2015, p. 33). Along with poverty, the spiritual views on medicine are vastly different from the western culture. They aren’t knowledgeable on common health safety practices because they mainly rely on religious and spiritual practices, as it was stated by an article in Nursing Outlook (Buseh, Stevens, Bromberg, & Kelber, 2015, p. 33). This was a big part of the Cholera spread in the movie, involving the burial of bodies near the river and its connection with their beliefs (Norton et al, & Curran, 2006). An article by Tomori also addressed the Ebola epidemic and its association with their culture’s method of burial (Tomori, 2015, p.
The Flu season is fast approaching and so are cases of the Ebola virus. “The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported in March 2014, and has rapidly become the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976” (“Ebola: Mapping the outbreak”). There is no self administered and/or cost friendly medical tool available that the public can use to expose this Ebola virus. But the future does hold some promising news about ways people can accurately identify Ebola in their own home. Now that litmus paper may be the solution to detecting cases of Ebola, news articles such as the one talked about in this reflection are trying to describe
Kass, Nancy. " Ebola, Ethics and Public Health: What’s Next?" Annals of Internal Medicine. American College of Physicians, 18 Nov. 2014. Web.
Ebola from everyone’s point of view is seen as inferno. Dr. Steven Hatch’s memorable journey began with him volunteering to leave for Liberia in 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia to fight Ebola in one of its most affected areas. There were only a few patients with Ebola when he arrived. The number of patients rapidly increased over his time in Liberia. After six months Ebola was declared a world health emergency and not only were ordinary people outside of the hospital getting the virus but the medical personnel that were tending to the patients had caught it and some of them had even died.
In 1976 the first two Ebola outbreaks were recorded. In Zaire and western Sudan five hundred and fifty people reported the horrible disease. Of the five hundred and fifty reported three hundred and forty innocent people died. Again in 1995 Ebola reportedly broke out in Zaire, this time infecting over two hundred and killing one hundred and sixty. (Bib4, Musilam, 1)
According to the World Health Organization, the reason why there are many Ebola outbreaks in West Africa is because they have “very weak health systems, lacking human and infrastructural resources, having only recently emerged from long periods of conflict and instability.” A hum...
With the current outbreak of diseases like Ebola, epidemiology has started gaining recognition as a scientific field of study. Epidemiology is the study of the health of human populations. It uses models to determine health-related issues in a specified population. The paper explores the various roles epidemiologists play in the public health while also discussing the specific roles of epidemiology in health care administration.
Many people in advanced industrialized nations are often unaware of infectious diseases that plague underdeveloped countries. This is primarily due to factors that are so often taken for granted like having proper sanitation, adequately treated water, properly prepared food, easy access to medical care, and economic viability. The sad truth is that many of these infectious diseases could easily be prevented if the countries where they run most rampant had only a few of the factors mentioned above. The concentration of this paper will be to focus on one such disease named Cholera and its impact on the country of Zambia, Africa.
...survey, field notes of observations, documents and interviews. Using open coding, axial coding, and selective coding will allow for the interpretation of the results. Threats to the quality of the study were monitored by the using three strategies: (1) triangulation, (2) member checking and (3) peer debriefing.