Section: Week 2: The response | Ebola in Context OER

Section: Week 2: The response | Ebola in Context OER | Open Study at LSHTM

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Ebola in Context
Understanding Transmission, Response and Control

This page contains a series of downloadable resources and learning activities from the School's Ebola in Context course. The material was originally delivered as a free online course in January, April and August 2015 on the FutureLearn platform. Additional information about the course and its contributors can be found on the School website.
The material is broken down into teaching weeks, topic-focused activities and learning steps. Individual steps are presented in a variety of different ways, and may be vehicles for delivering content, discussion opportunities, or informal assessment tasks. The material available on this page does not represent a course experience, and is intended for free, open re-use by educators.
Course developers: Professor Judith Glynn, Megan Kill & Joanna Stroud
- How to access downloadable material Page
- Full course acknowledgements File
- Your use of Ebola in Context OER URL
  
  A short survey around your intended use of course resources.

Week 2: The response

Week 2: The response

Week 2 activities cover how we can reduce the rate of transmission and the number of deaths caused by Ebola.
- Activity: Reducing transmission: what works?
  
  Understand the principles of reducing effective contacts, appreciate the problems of implementing control procedures, and understand ongoing and innovative intervention strategies. Image: Catherine McGowan. CC BY 2.0.
- Step 2.1 Learning from other outbreaks (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.2 Reducing transmission: the principles (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.3 Personal protective equipment (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.4 Burial practices (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.5 How can posters be used to teach people about Ebola? (DISCUSSION) Page
- Step 2.6 Grassroots responses to the epidemic (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.7 Community Care Centres: an evolving concept (ARTICLE) Page
- Activity: How can we reduce the deaths? Treatments and survival
  
  Understand how to measure case fatality rates, the limits and problems of existing treatments, and the experiences of patients and health care workers. Image: Kerry Town ETU in Sierra Leone by DFID. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
- Step 2.8 A deadly disease: measuring case fatality rates (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.9 Case fatality rates (QUIZ) Page
- Step 2.10 Suspected Ebola: the importance of confirming the diagnosis (ARTICLE) Page
- Step 2.11 Medical and practical aspects of treatment (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.12 Life in an Ebola treatment centre (ARTICLE) Page
- Step 2.13 Stigma around treatment and survival (VIDEO) Page
- Step 2.14 Would you seek treatment? (DISCUSSION) Page
- Step 2.15 Summary (ARTICLE) Page

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Section: Week 2: The response | Ebola in Context OER | Open Study at LSHTM

General

Ebola in ContextUnderstanding Transmission, Response and Control

Week 2: The response

Week 2: The response

Activity: Reducing transmission: what works?

Activity: How can we reduce the deaths? Treatments and survival

Ebola in Context
Understanding Transmission, Response and Control