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62% Of Healthcare Practitioners Say Controlling Ebola and Caring for Ebola Patients in West Africa Is Most Important to Stopping Ebola in the United States
[October 30, 2014]

62% Of Healthcare Practitioners Say Controlling Ebola and Caring for Ebola Patients in West Africa Is Most Important to Stopping Ebola in the United States


SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)--

Sixty-two percent of attendees at the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) annual conference this week said that the most important factor in stopping Ebola in the United States is controlling the virus and caring for afflicted patients in West Africa.

In addition, if properly protected, 30 percent of respondents would go to West Africa to care for Ebola patients; 68 percent are willing to care for U.S. Ebola patients in United States; and 87 percent would care for U.S. patients, if required by their employer.

754 healthcare practitioners took the poll - 78 percent of whom are physicians - at the AIHM annual conference in San Diego on October 27 and 28.

According to Mimi Guarneri, President of AIHM, "Healthcare providers went into medicine to serve, and this poll shows that they stand ready to do so. For properly trained and protected healthcare practitioners, caring for patients and averting a public health crisis outweighs the risk of personal exposure to a life-threatening disease. In the case of Ebola - where the risk of infection is relatively low but public fear is high - the healthcare profession must take the lead in acting responsibly to the potential threat while not overreacting."

Added Guarneri, "The healthcare practitioners here at the AIHM conference this week are more attuned than most to the importance of care, comfort and support of patients when medical treatment options are few. I can say firmly that Dallas nurses Nina Pham and Amber Vinson would not have healed without the love and support of their healthcare providers and families."

Results of the poll are as follows:





Q: What do you think is the most important factor in stopping the spread of Ebola in the United States?

 

Controlling Ebola and caring for patients in West Africa

 

62 percent

Actions taken by the CDC to control Ebola in the United States

23 percent

Not sure

16 percent


Q: Knowing you are properly protected, would you care for Ebola patients in the United States?

 

I'd Volunteer

If Required

 

Yes

68 percent

87 percent

No

32 percent

13 percent

 

Q: Knowing you are properly protected, would you care for Ebola patients in West Africa?

 
Yes

30 percent

No

70 percent

 

About AIHM

The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) is an international, interdisciplinary, member-centric organization that educates and certifies professionals in integrative health and medicine to assure exemplary health care. The AIHM's training incorporates evidence-informed research, emphasizes person-centered care and embraces all global healing traditions. By combining science and compassion, the AIHM is transforming health care. Go to www.AIHM.org.


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