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Advocacy, promotion and e-learning: Supercourse for zoonosis

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine volume 10, pages 273–281 (2005)Cite this article

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This paper discusses the history of emerging infectious diseases, risk communication and perception, and the Supercourse lectures as means to strengthen the concepts and definition of risk management and global governance of zoonosis. The paper begins by outlining some of the key themes and issues in infectious diseases, highlighting the way which historical analysis challenges ideas of the ‘newness’ of some of these developments. It then discusses the role of risk communication to public accountability. The bulk of the paper presents an overview of developments of the Internet-based learning system through the Supercourse lectures that may prove to be a strong arm for the promotion of the latest medical information particularly to developing countries.

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    Gino C. Matibag, Manabu Igarashi & Hiko Tamashiro

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Matibag, G.C., Igarashi, M., La Porte, R.E. et al. Advocacy, promotion and e-learning: Supercourse for zoonosis. Environ Health Prev Med 10, 273–281 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02897702

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