Ebola as a course: uniting basic sciences, public health and the humanities

Peeling the Onion: A Textual CDA of Research Articles in Humanities and Basic Sciences

This study aimed to investigate the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary variations of research article Introduction sections in 2 disciplines (i.e., humanities and basic sciences). Ninety research article Introduction sections (i.e., 15 from each discipline of applied linguistics, sociology, psychology, biology, agriculture, and geology) were examined. The study was conducted with reference to ...

Ebola virus and public health.

The Ebola virus disease epidemic that struck West Africa throughout 2014 continues to shake the international and public health communities. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness decided to create a Special Issue focused on the Ebola crisis—an essential action for the most significant health crisis of a generation. Two important innovations make this issue of the journal unique. Firs...

The Ebola epidemic and translational public health.

Several weeks ago while preparing material for the next regular issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, I requested Dr. Skip Burkle to prepare a commentary from the global public health perspective on the current West African Ebola epidemic. As usual, Dr. Burkle provided a superb article that accompanies this editorial. Discussions of this among colleagues resulted in an outp...

ebola hemorrhagic fever as a public health emergency of international concern; a review article

ebola hemorrhagic fever (ehf) was first reported in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever centered in yambuku (near the ebola river), democratic republic of congo, and also in nzara, sudan. the current outbreak of the ebola virus was started by reporting the first case in march 2014 in the forest regions of southeastern guinea. due to raising infection rates of ove...

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