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| Title |
Will Africa’s future epidemic ride on forgotten lessons from the Ebola epidemic?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-015-0359-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Oyewale Tomori |
| Abstract |
The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the three West Africa countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a public health event of international concern in August 2014. The disease, which has caused more than 10,000 deaths from over 25,000 cases, has thrived on a failed disease control system, national denial, and a poor and fragile healthcare delivery system. The slow and initially uncoordinated national and global response turned the outbreak into an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. Prevention and control of future outbreaks depend on improving and upgrading disease surveillance into a responsive component of a reliable and efficient health care delivery system. Appropriate capacity building with a conducive operating environment, which has been lacking in the past few decades, will be key to the health system strengthening. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 5 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 25% |
| Scientists | 2 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 99 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 98 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 24 | 24% |
| Researcher | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 16% |
| Unknown | 23 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 13% |
| Unknown | 23 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2015.
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#4,177,314
of 23,870,007 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,096
of 3,628 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,968
of 267,273 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#56
of 85 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,870,007 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,628 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.0. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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