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| Title |
“A time of fear”: local, national, and international responses to a large Ebola outbreak in Uganda
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Globalization and Health, June 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1744-8603-8-15 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John Kinsman |
| Abstract |
This paper documents and analyses some of the responses to the largest Ebola outbreak on record, which took place in Uganda between September 2000 and February 2001. Four hundred and twenty five people developed clinical symptoms in three geographically distinct parts of the country (Gulu, Masindi, and Mbarara), of whom 224 (53%) died. Given the focus of previous social scientific Ebola research on experiences in communities that have been directly affected, this article expands the lens to include responses to the outbreak in local, national, and international contexts over the course of the outbreak. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 50% |
| Italy | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 205 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 193 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 49 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 35 | 17% |
| Researcher | 23 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 9% |
| Other | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 37 | 18% |
| Unknown | 32 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 61 | 30% |
| Social Sciences | 31 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 20 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 36 | 18% |
| Unknown | 37 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 11 August 2022.
All research outputs
#1,892,026
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#306
of 1,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,160
of 181,062 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#2
of 17 outputs
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