{"title":"Awareness to Action: Strengthening RCCE, Combating Future Pandemics in Bangladesh","authors":"Deepak Gupta, B. Hassan, Jai P. Narain","doi":"10.1177/09720634231214884","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) platform aimed to provide accurate information and encourage community engagement to minimise risks. The RCCE partners utilised behaviour change approaches to motivate people to take appropriate action and collaborated with communities to develop plans based on their unique circumstances. Throughout the pandemic, the RCCE platform worked tirelessly to disseminate real-time information and facilitate communication among frontline health providers, community outreach workers and community members in partnership with various stakeholders. This article addresses several possible questions regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of the RCCE response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Was the RCCE platform able to swiftly and efficiently orchestrate a campaign that yielded results for the country? Was there a concrete platform in place, which could address the challenges posed by the pandemic? Lastly, what revisions could be envisioned for the next pandemic response?","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231214884","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) platform aimed to provide accurate information and encourage community engagement to minimise risks. The RCCE partners utilised behaviour change approaches to motivate people to take appropriate action and collaborated with communities to develop plans based on their unique circumstances. Throughout the pandemic, the RCCE platform worked tirelessly to disseminate real-time information and facilitate communication among frontline health providers, community outreach workers and community members in partnership with various stakeholders. This article addresses several possible questions regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of the RCCE response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Was the RCCE platform able to swiftly and efficiently orchestrate a campaign that yielded results for the country? Was there a concrete platform in place, which could address the challenges posed by the pandemic? Lastly, what revisions could be envisioned for the next pandemic response?
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.