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Disease outbreaks are inevitable, and often unpredictable, events. The environment surrounding an outbreak is unique in all of public health. Outbreaks...

This field workbook supports the implementation of the interagency (FAO, UNICEF, WHO) “Communication for Behavioural Impact (COMBI): A toolkit for...

The objective of this document is to help national authorities apply the WHO outbreak communication principles to their outbreak planning and preparation...

During public health emergencies, people need to know what health risks they face, and what actions they can take to protect their health and lives. Accurate...

In a pandemic or other public health emergency, authorities must engage individuals, communities and businesses, listen and respond to concerns, and support...

For public health emergencies, risk communication includes the range of communication capacities required through the preparedness, response and recovery phases...

This interagency (FAO, UNICEF, WHO) toolkit will be useful for anyone wanting to design effective outbreak prevention and control measures in community...

Until the outbreak of an exotic communicable disease or other dramatic event, the elaborate infrastructures and mechanisms that protect public health on...

Strategies for health education and social mobilization during outbreaks have been refined in recent years. They are now routinely used by WHO, with support...