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ArticleCommunity health equity research & policy2023

Community Health Education for Health Crisis Management: The Case of COVID-19 in Cameroon.

Marcellus Mbah, Henry Bang, Humphrey Ndi, Judwin Alieh Ndzo

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Article in Community health equity research & policy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Marcellus MbahInstitute of Education, Nottingham Trent University, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4199-0819
Henry BangCentre for Disaster Management, Bournemouth University, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1850-857X
Humphrey NdiDepartment of Geography, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon.
Judwin Alieh NdzoQueen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
Bournemouth University · GBNottingham Trent University · GBQueen's Medical Centre · GBUniversité de Yaoundé I · CM

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led Cameroon's government to implement public health measures aimed at preventing its spread. This paper investigates how community health education on the virus was being carried out, what gaps exist and what further action could be taken. A survey instrument was used to gather data among a total of 179 Cameroonians recruited via opportunistic and snowball sampling methods. According to our findings, gaps exist. These include the need for adequate community health education on COVID-19, maximising multilingualism and indigenous cultural assets and disbanding misconceptions on the pandemic, as well as stigmatisation. The paper culminates by underlining the significance of an integrated approach to confront the pandemic. This approach captures the need to frame but also firm up community health education architecture on COVID-19 that captures inputs from different stakeholders, including indigenous knowledge holders, for collective wellbeing.

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COVID-19CameroonGovernmentHealth EducationHumansPublic HealthCamerooncommunity health educationCOVID-19integrated approach

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PMID34264140
PMCPMC10240648
OpenAlexW3174855276

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