Carlos Rocha

Biographic Data

ID3654426
NAMECarlos Rocha
GIVEN NAMESCarlos
FAMILY NAMERocha
SIGNATUREROCHA C
AFFILIATIONSRobert Koch Institute
ORCID0000-0002-9879-0463
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Healthcare workers’ beliefs, practices and experiences regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting governance from preparedness and response plans in Faranah, Guinea

    Open AccessCarlos Rocha, Moussa Douno et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    There is a growing interest in the implementation of people-centered components within outbreak preparedness and response plans and their resulting governance. Information on this topic still remains scarce, particularly in settings such as Guinea in West Africa. In the context of COVID-19, we conducted 21 qualitative interviews with healthcare workers (HCWs) from the Faranah Regional Hospital in Guinea to explore pandemic preparedness and respon…

  • Multiple domesticities

    Open AccessCarlos Rocha, Hellena Debelts et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    This study explores the concept of the domestic within the One Health approach by examining how human-animal-environment relations shape health and survival in everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire during the rainy and dry seasons of 2022-2023, we explore how the domestic is continually produced through multispecies relationality of care, ecology, and biopolitics.…

  • Context specific challenges of the WHO infection prevention and control core components in the Faranah region

    Open AccessAnna Borodova, Amadou Aziz Diallo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Infection prevention and control (IPC) programs have been reported to reduce healthcare associated infections by up to 70%. These rates vary globally, with scare data suggesting that the highest prevalence occurs in the African region exceeding 50% in Guinea. The Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework facilitates the evaluation of WHO guidelines on core components of infection prevention and control programs. Using this framework, …

  • ‘Ensemble On Sonne!’ Travels of KAP Studies (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) for the Prevention and Control of Covid-19 Infections in Upper Guinea

    Open AccessCarlos RochaARTICLESources2025

    The Covid-19 pandemic drove a surge of preparedness and response interventions structured under international guidelines to be directly introduced in any local setting. This article analyses a Covid-19 readiness intervention, carried out by a partnership between the Robert Koch Institute–Berlin and a hospital in Guinea, West Africa. An ethnographic approach to the partnership’s sources and materials, in particular the Knowledge–Attitudes–Practice…

  • Algoritmos das Redes Sociais e Seitas Políticas

    Open AccessCarlos RochaBOOKAlgoritmos das Redes Sociais e…2024Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Communicating risk during early phases of Covid-19

    Open AccessBrogan Geurts, Heide Weishaar et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Emergency risk communication (ERC) is key to achieving compliance with public health measures during pandemics. Yet, the factors that facilitated ERC during COVID-19 have not been analyzed. We compare ERC in the early stages of the pandemic across four socio-economic settings to identify how risk communication can be improved in public health emergencies (PHE). Methods: To map and assess the content, process, actors, and context of ER…

  • A comparative analysis of experienced uncertainties in relation to risk communication during Covid19

    Open AccessFlorin Cristea, Heide Weishaar et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2022

    BACKGROUND: During outbreaks, uncertainties experienced by affected communities can influence their compliance to government guidance on public health. Communicators and authorities are, hence, encouraged to acknowledge and address such uncertainties. However, in the midst of public health crises, it can become difficult to define and identify uncertainties that are most relevant to address. We analyzed data on COVID-19-related uncertainties from…

  • A Study of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radon/Thoron Release Potential of Bedrock and Soil in Southeastern Ireland

    Open AccessMirsina Mousavi Aghdam, Quentin Crowley et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Radon ( 222 Rn) and thoron ( 220 Rn) account for almost two-thirds of the annual average radiation dose received by the Irish population. A detailed study of natural radioactivity levels and radon and thoron exhalation rates was carried out in a legislatively designated "high radon" area, as based on existing indoor radon measurements. Indoor radon concentrations, airborne radiometric data and stream sediment geochemistry were collated, and a set…

  • Contributos para o estudo da potamonímia portuguesa a norte do Mondego

    Open AccessCarlos RochaARTICLELaborHistórico2020

    Apresenta este artigo uma proposta de caracterização etimológica da potamonímia portuguesa situada a norte do rio Mondego, com base na recolha e análise de um subconjunto dos nomes de rios reunidos no Reportório Toponímico de Portugal (Continente), publicado pelo Serviço Cartográfico do Exército em 1967, e na Carta Militar de Portugal a 1:25 000. Inscrevendo-se na discussão dos estratos linguísticos a considerar na história linguística do referid…

  • Towards an outline of central and southern Portugal potamonymy

    Open AccessCarlos RochaARTICLEDomínios de Lingu gem2020

    Within the set of river names of Portugal, those of the northwest usually stand out because of their archaism. However, rivers located to the south of the Mondego basin and the Central System are no less interesting, as they reveal great etymological heterogeneity, ranging from a few that fit into the pre-Latin substrates to several names that underwent Arabization between the 8th and 13th centuries. Several items also stand out, which are more r…

  • Judicialização da saúde e medicalização

    Open AccessAline Marques, Carlos Rocha et al.ARTICLEEstudos Avançados2019Cited by: 1References: 10

    A judicialização da saúde no Brasil desenvolve-se a partir de medicamentos, tratamentos, exames etc., envolvendo profissionais do direito para efetivar o direito à saúde, mobilizando saberes e práticas plurais e contraditórias, que reforçam a medicalização. Sendo assim, o artigo aborda a relação entre judicialização e medicalização na saúde. O objetivo do trabalho consiste em evidenciar, em análise documental, os parâmetros decisórios que o Poder…

  • Estratigrafia linguística da hidrotoponímia de Portugal continental / Linguistic Stratigraphy of Mainland Portugal’s Hydrotoponymy

    Open AccessCarlos RochaARTICLERevista de Estudos da Linguagem2018

    O tema do presente artigo insere-se na história da onomástica portuguesa, mais precisamente, na etimologia dos hidrotopónimos de Portugal continental. Com a finalidade de contribuir criticamente para a recuperação da etimologia como disciplina mais atuante no contexto dos domínios da História da Língua e da Linguística Histórica, retoma-se uma linha de investigação que remonta aos trabalhos desenvolvidos em Portugal por José Leite de Vasconcelos,…

  • Juridicização engajada da adolescência

    Open AccessCarlos Rocha, Martinho Braga Batista E Silva et al.ARTICLESaúde e Sociedade2018Cited by: 3References: 5

    Com o objetivo de compreender um caso de internação psiquiátrica compulsória (IPC) infantojuvenil, foi desenvolvida uma etnografia com agentes institucionais dos setores educação, justiça e saúde nos poderes executivo e judiciário. A metodologia de pesquisa consistiu em (1) entrevistas com defensoras, psicólogas, psiquiatras e peritos; (2) análise documental de ata escolar, autos processuais e prontuário médico. Frisamos que algumas pesquisas têm…