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public health campaign
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This tag covers discussions about public health campaigns, including a thread on Sierra Leone's scare-tactics campaign in Freetown to curb Ebola. The campaign uses social mobilization and surveillance, drawing on tactics from UK drink-driving campaigns. The content focuses on behavior change strategies during disease outbreaks.
The president of Sierra Leone will launch a massive campaign on Wednesday to curb the spread of Ebola in the western areas of the capital Freetown, which will aim to scare people into changing their behaviour.
The “western area surge” will use the sort of tactics that worked in the UK to...