Article ; Online: Emergence of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak: Anthropological and Social Science Perspectives.
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
2020 Volume 14, Issue 6, Page(s) 759–761
Abstract: With the ongoing coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, SARS-CoV-2), the entire community of health professionals is working to control disease and investing crores in vaccine development. The present discussion is to bring the ... ...
| Abstract | With the ongoing coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, SARS-CoV-2), the entire community of health professionals is working to control disease and investing crores in vaccine development. The present discussion is to bring the focus on various social issues that emerge during outbreak and calls for equal attention as that of other health-care interventions. These issues are summarized in three categories: first, stigmatization due to lack of knowledge about the source of infection; second, speculations and their consequences around lack of knowledge about transmission; and finally, the concern regarding miscommunication during such a crisis. Most of these concerns emerge from press and social media coverage of the episode. The Ebola outbreak response is an example of how social scientists and anthropologists can work with other experts to solve questions of public health importance. Their approach toward the community with the objective to understand the sources, reasons, and circumstances of the infection will help to manage the current outbreak. In this context, we suggest collaboration of diverse scientific community to control and sensitize the people to tackle the misinformation in the affected and non-affected community during the outbreaks. |
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| MeSH term(s) | COVID-19/epidemiology ; COVID-19/transmission ; Disease Outbreaks ; Health Communication/standards ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/epidemiology ; Humans ; Mass Media ; Public Health ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Social Media ; Social Sciences ; Social Stigma |
| Keywords | covid19 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-06-24 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2375268-3 |
| ISSN | 1938-744X ; 1935-7893 |
| ISSN (online) | 1938-744X |
| ISSN | 1935-7893 |
| DOI | 10.1017/dmp.2020.203 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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