Providing incentives to share data early in health emergencies: the role of journal editors

Providing incentives to share data early in health emergencies: the role of journal editors

The early response to the Ebola epidemic, however, was also accompanied by several examples of individuals and organisations being unwilling to share data in real time, including data that was vital for public health planning in this difficult, fast-moving emergency. This problem was encountered by...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 2015-11, Vol.386 (10006), p.1797-1798
Hauptverfasser: Whitty, Christopher J M, Mundel, Trevor, Farrar, Jeremy, Heymann, David L, Davies, Sally C, Walport, Mark J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Access to Information
Africa, Western - epidemiology
Comment
Disease Outbreaks
Ebola virus
Editorial Policies
Emergencies
Epidemics
Health planning
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology
Humans
Incentives
Information Dissemination
Information sharing
Internal Medicine
Periodicals as Topic
Public health
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Zusammenfassung:The early response to the Ebola epidemic, however, was also accompanied by several examples of individuals and organisations being unwilling to share data in real time, including data that was vital for public health planning in this difficult, fast-moving emergency. This problem was encountered by the countries most affected, governmental and non-governmental organisations, and even WHO.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00758-8