Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: Data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza
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- 3 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1), 347
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-347
Abstract
In 2007 Australia experienced its first outbreak of highly infectious equine influenza. Government disease control measures were put in place to control, contain, and eradicate the disease; these measures included movement restrictions and quarantining of properties. This study was conducted to assess the psycho-social impacts of this disease, and this paper reports the prevalence of, and factors influencing, psychological distress during this outbreak.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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