When rumours derail a mass deworming exercise

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dc.contributor.authorDodoo, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorAdjei, Sam
dc.contributor.authorCouper, Mary
dc.contributor.authorHugman, Bruce
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Ralph
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:00:27Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:00:27Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThe role of misleading or scaremongering news media reports in causing drug crises is well known. Pharmacovigilance systems can play an important educational and preventive role through safety monitoring of products and effective communication about safety issues with health professionals and the general public. That failure to use an existing pharmacovigilance system in implementation planning and weaknesses in communications about medication could lead to mass hysteria and civil unrest might thus seem implausible. But this reaction happened in several regions of Ghana on Feb 12, 2007.
dc.description.urihttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61211-2/fulltext#article_upsell
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/rjyb-shdj
dc.identifier.citationDodoo, Alexander and Adjei, Sam and Couper, Mary and Hugman, Bruce and Edwards, Ralph (2007) When rumours derail a mass deworming exercise. The Lancet, 370. pp. 465-466.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 779
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22778
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectGlobal Health
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectdrug crises
dc.subjectPharmacovigilance systems
dc.subjectcommunication
dc.subjectsafety issues
dc.subjectscaremongering
dc.subjectmass hysteria
dc.titleWhen rumours derail a mass deworming exercise
dc.typeArticle

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