Harnessing Social and Behavioural Change Strategies for the Prevention and Control of COVID-19: A Perspective from Tanzania

Social and behavioural change strategies are crucial to facilitating the adoption of preventive behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the success of such social and behavioural changes, the community should be aware of the interventions and willing to adhere to health advice. This letter deta...

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Autores principales: Mushi, Vivian, Mushi, Lilian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8407800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34512140
http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2021.28.4.16
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spelling pubmed-84078002021-09-09 Harnessing Social and Behavioural Change Strategies for the Prevention and Control of COVID-19: A Perspective from Tanzania Mushi, Vivian Mushi, Lilian Malays J Med Sci Letter to the Editor Social and behavioural change strategies are crucial to facilitating the adoption of preventive behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the success of such social and behavioural changes, the community should be aware of the interventions and willing to adhere to health advice. This letter details the strategies employed in Tanzania to accelerate the adoption of preventive behaviour and contain the spread of COVID-19. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021-08 2021-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8407800/ /pubmed/34512140 http://dx.doi.org/10.21315/mjms2021.28.4.16 Text en © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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