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Evidence review

Broader Health Impacts of Vertical Responses to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs)

Review of the effects of vertical responses to COVID-19 on health systems, services, and people’s access to and use of them in LMICs

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

COVID-19 RCCE Strategies for Cross-Border Movement in Eastern and Southern Africa

Key considerations for risk communication and community engagement strategies

SSHAP

2020

Evidence review

Background Paper: COVID-19 in the Context of Forced Displacement: Perspectives from the Middle East and East Africa

How is the pandemic accentuating existing vulnerabilities of populations forcibly displaced by war?

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Operational Considerations: COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Middle East and East Africa

Summary including collaborating with local groups and adopting holistic approaches.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Tools

Rapid appraisal of key health-seeking behaviours in epidemics

This Practical Approaches brief looks at how to identify health-seeking behaviours

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Tools

Rapid anthropological assessments in the field

This Practical Approaches brief explores data collection methods and question modules

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Tools

Rapid remote context analysis tool (RR-CAT) in epidemics

This SSHAP Practical Approaches brief underlines key considerations when appraising the context in which an outbreak occurs.

SSHAP

2020

Case study

Balancing Burial Rituals with Public Health Demands During the 2014 Guinean Ebola Epidemic

Case study addressing resistance to Ebola response measures

SSHAP

2020

Case study

Learning the Lessons of Crisis: Mobilising Knowledge During a Global Health Emergency

Case study addressing issues around knowledge sharing, focusing on the example of Ebola

SSHAP

2020

Case study

Rift Valley Fever: Local Knowledge, Health-Seeking Behaviours and Attitudes Towards Vaccination in Southern Uganda

Case study addressing the challenge of vaccine uptake and regulating the unknown

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2020

Case study

Building a Community Health Worker Programme During the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone

Case study looking into the challenge of a lack of trust and referrals to biomedical health care

SSHAP

2020

Case study

Participation with a Cholera-Exposed Population in Haiti: Finding their Own Solutions

Case study looking at the challenge of cholera in Haiti

SSHAP

2020

Evidence review

Considerations for Home and Community-Based Care for COVID-19

Why home care is important, and an overview of existing guidance and models, with an emphasis on low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs).

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

COVID-19 Management in Marginalised Populations in Southeast Asia

Key considerations focusing on transnational migrants, informal workers, and people living in informal settlements.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Considerations and Principles for Shielding People at High Risk of Severe Outcomes from COVID-19

Including proposed approaches to shielding, who may be included in shielding groups, as well as the likely difficulties of these measures, and ways to mitigate them.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

COVID-19: Why Are Prisons at Particular Risk, and What Can Be Done to Mitigate This?

Particular risks associated with an outbreak in prisons in low-and middle-income countries and suggestions of some approaches that may be used to mitigate risks.

SSHAP

2020

Comment

COVID-19 Forum

A collection bringing together seventeen anthropologists and historians in an effort to share ideas, analytical frameworks and concerns about the ongoing epidemic from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Somatosphere

2020

Briefing

Dying, Bereavement and Mortuary and Funerary Practices in the Context of COVID-19

Key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies and practices) and mourning.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Incorporating Non-Expert Evidence into Surveillance and Early Detection of Public Health Emergencies

‘Big data’ has promised significant improvements for the global surveillance of infectious disease. This SSHAP Case Study highlights how, over the past two decades, new disease surveillance practices built on amassing and processing large data sets – analysed computationally to…

UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica

2020

Case study

People, Poultry and Pandemics: Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Indonesia

This SSHAP Case Study illustrates how the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worked in 2006-07 to support the Indonesian government in response to avian influenza outbreaks. The agency provided social mobilisation and education programmes to schools and villages in affected…

UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica

2020

Briefing

Compliance with Physical Distancing Measures for COVID-19 and Implications for RCCE in Eastern and Southern Africa

Practical considerations for communication strategies and messaging on physical distancing.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Tools

Assessing key considerations for burial practices, death and mourning in epidemics

This Practical Approaches brief looks the considerations for rapidly appraising burial/funerary practices and beliefs around death/dying during an epidemic.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Tools

Taking a psychosocial approach to epidemic response

This Practical Approaches brief highlights key considerations for taking a psychosocial approach to working in the context of an epidemic.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements

Key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19

Practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Quarantine in the Context of COVID-19

Key considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Behavioural Data Compilation #5

A rapid compilation of data analyses for September-November 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.

SSHAP

2020

Briefing

Cross-Border Dynamics Between South Sudan and DRC

Key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between South Sudan and DRC including borderlands and trade dynamics.

Central and East Africa Hub

SSHAP

2019

Briefing

Behavioural Data Compilation #4

A rapid compilation of data analyses for June-August 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.

SSHAP

2019

Evidence review

The Context of Sofala and Manica in Relation to Cyclone Idai Response in Mozambique

Rapid review question: What contextual factors (e.g. community structures and dynamics) are relevant in the urban and rural areas affected by cyclone Idai (Sofala and Manica provinces)? How do social and cultural factors shape communication and community engagement strategies across…

SSHAP

2019

Briefing

Behavioural Data Compilation #3

A rapid compilation of data analyses for February-May 2019 in the context of the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.

SSHAP

2019

Briefing

Politics, Factions and Violence: Listening to Local Voices on Ebola: Local Media Update

Summarising local media and messages circulating via social media outlets in February-April 2019 in the Beni and Butembo areas of North Kivu.

SSHAP

2019