Comparison of social resistance to Ebola response in Sierra Leone and Guinea suggests explanations lie in political configurations not culture

Sierra Leone and Guinea share broadly similar cultural worlds, straddling the societies of the Upper Guinea Coast with Islamic West Africa. There was, however, a notable difference in their reactions to the Ebola epidemic. As the epidemic spread in Guinea, acts of violent or everyday resistance to o...

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Published in:Crit Public Health
Main Authors: Wilkinson, Annie, Fairhead, James
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Special Section: The Publics of Public Health in Africa. Guest Editors: Ann H. Kelly, Hayley MacGregor and Catherine M. Montgomery
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351787/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28366999
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2016.1252034
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