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Organization Type: National Institutions

Organization URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/   

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public information about health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. To continue fulfilling this mission, NLM is collecting and archiving related Web content, which also serves to document the histories of health and medicine. For questions about our web archiving program contact us at nlmwebcollecting@nlm.nih.gov.

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

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/key-considerations-dying-bereavement-mortuary-funerary-practices-context-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief sets out key considerations for events related to death, burial, funerals (rites, ceremonies, and practices), and mourning in the context of the global outbreak of the COVID-19. Further participatory inquiry should be undertaken, but given ongoing transmission, conveying key considerations for adapted end-of-life, mortuary, burial, and funeral practices and related community engagement have been prioritized.

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Title: Key Considerations: COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/key-considerations-covid-19-informal-urban-settlements-march-2020/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief sets out key considerations for protecting informal urban settlements from the spread and impacts of COVID-19. There is heightened concern about these settings because of the combination of population density and limited infrastructure. This briefing discusses what is known about vulnerabilities and how to support local action.

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Title: Risks Related to Population Movement and Gatherings During Ramadan

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/covid-19-risks-related-population-movement-gatherings-ramadan/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This three-page note sets out key considerations in relation to COVID-19 during the holy month of Ramadan on the continent of Africa. It provides evidence to support design of protective public health policies, alternative practices, and reduction of risk. Anthrologica was commissioned to produce this brief.

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

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/covid-19-prisons-particular-risk-can-done-mitigate/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief provides key considerations related to COVID-19 in the context of prisons, jails, and similar detention facilities. It summarizes the particular risks associated with an outbreak of COVID-19 in prisons in low-and middle-income countries, and highlights approaches that may be used to mitigate those risks. It was developed by Anthrologica.

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

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/resources/considerations-principles-shielding-people-high-risk-severe-outcomes-covid-19/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief considers the rationale for shielding individuals at high risk of severe disease or death from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. It provides an overview of proposed approaches to shielding, discusses the categories of individuals who may be identified for shielding, and outlines the likely difficulties of these measures and ways to mitigate them.

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Title: Social science support for COVID-19: Briefings from the Cellule d’Analyse en Sciences Sociales

URL: https://www.socialscienceinaction.org/blogs-and-news/social-science-support-covid-19-briefings-cellule-danalyse-en-sciences-sociales/

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This web page provides a set of briefing documents outlining key lessons learned from social sciences analyses during the Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola outbreak response, aiming to connect findings from the research conducted by the Cellule d'Analyse en Sciences Sociales (CASS) with recommendations for supporting and improving the approach to tackling COVID-19 and its secondary impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa. These briefs have been developed by UNICEF for the CASS, under a Wellcome-DFID grant. They have been reviewed and contributed to by partners from GOARN research, Anthrologica, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), Translators Without Borders (TWB), MSF-Epicentre, NOVETTA, and Oxford University.

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Title: Key Considerations: Online Information, Mis- and Disinformation in the Context of COVID-19

URL: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15178/SSHAP_Brief_Online_Information_COVID-19.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This eight-page brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation, and disinformation through online media, particularly social media networks, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details various types of online media, key players, and influencers on social media, and strategies for ensuring good information and disrupting mis- and disinformation.

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Title: Social Dimensions of the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) Outbreak and Response

URL: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/15121/SSHAP_Social_Dimensions_nCoV_outbreak_response_meeting_report_Feb2020.pdf

Collection: Global Health Events web archive

Description: This nine-page report summarizes a roundtable meeting held on February 3, 2020, to discuss appropriate social science and humanities inputs that can improve understanding of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) outbreak in global terms, including the response in China, Asia, and around the world; identify social science evidence needs and modes of engagement with policymakers and practitioners that could inform preparedness and response over the next period; and foster mutual learning among social scientists and historians working in China and other settings about how their perspectives can most appropriately contribute.

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