Journal article
Social contacts and other risk factors for respiratory infections among internally displaced people in Somaliland
K van Zandvoort, MO Bobe, AI Hassan, MI Abdi, MS Ahmed, SM Soleman, MY Warsame, MA Wais, E Diggle, CR McGowan, C Satzke, K Mulholland, MM Egeh, MM Hassan, MA Hergeeye, RM Eggo, F Checchi, S Flasche
Epidemics | Published : 2022
Abstract
Background: Populations affected by humanitarian crises experience high burdens of acute respiratory infections (ARI), potentially driven by risk factors for severe disease such as poor nutrition and underlying conditions, and risk factors that may increase transmission such as overcrowding and the possibility of high social mixing. However, little is known about social mixing patterns in these populations. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional social contact survey among internally displaced people (IDP) living in Digaale, a permanent IDP camp in Somaliland. We included questions on household demographics, shelter quality, crowding, travel frequency, health status, and recent diagnosis of..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by Elrha's Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme, which aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening the evidence base for public health interventions in humanitarian crises. The R2HC programme is funded by the UK Government (DFID) , the Wellcome Trust, and the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) . SF acknowledges a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (grant: 208812/Z/17/Z) . In addition, RME acknowledges an HDR UK Innovation Fellowship (grant: MR/S003975/1) , MRC (grant: MC_PC 19065) , and NIHR (grant: NIHR200908) for the Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling and Economics at LSHTM. MCRI was sup-ported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Sup-port Program. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author (s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the UK Department of Health and Social Care.