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Outbreak culture : the Ebola crisis and the next epidemic
An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the largest and deadliest of its kind. Their postmortem identifies factors that kept key information from reaching doctors, complicated the government's response to the crisis, and left responders unprepared for the next outbreak.-- Provided by publisher
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Social mobilization and the Ebola virus disease in Liberia
The book offers a summary of the EVD crisis, and the ways it was defeated by the public who were energized by the gravity of the situation. It discusses the lessons learned, the effect of the disease on children, and the way forward for the international health care system.
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Strengthening post-Ebola health systems : from response to resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
Addresses the challenge of enabling the development of viable, resilient, and fiscally sustainable health system in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Initiated while Ebola was still raging in all of the three most-affected countries in West Africa, the study identifies the requirements for strengthening the health systems in these countries to go beyond just getting the number of Ebola cases to zero. The overall goal of this study is thus twofold: To assess the capacity of the health systems of the three most-affected countries in terms of their ability to deliver quality health services to their populations, perform core public health functions on a routine basis, and to respond to public health emergencies; and To identify the highest impact strategies to help these countries to strengthen their health systems to be more effective and resilient, drilling down into three key aspects of the health system-- that is, fiscal space for universal health coverage (UHC), development and deployment of an effective health workforce, and continuous disease surveillance.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
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Antiblackness and Global Health
Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health. Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across the landscape of global health in Sierra Leone, showing how this history underpinned the international response to Ebola. The book moves from the material and atmospheric traces of colonialism and enslavement in Freetown, to the forms of knowledge presented in colonial archives and in contemporary expert accounts, to disease control and care practices. As the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed, health inequalities around the world disproportionately affect people of African descent. This book aims to equip critical scholars, medical and humanitarian practitioners, policy makers and health activists with the tools and knowledge to challenge antiblackness in global health practice and politics. The book argues that Black Studies can inform future research on medical interventions in Africa by unpacking postcolonial silences, centring Black perspectives and highlighting the endurance of colonial infrastructures in the present.
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In the time of Ebola : youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone
\"In the Time of Ebola is a firsthand account and anthropological study of the 2014-16 West African Ebola epidemic, centering on the residents of a city that became swept up in the emergency. The book tells the stories of young men and women over a period or seven years, revealing what the Ebola epidemic actually looked like on the ground, as well as exploring its causes, meanings, and legacies.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Strengthening Post-Ebola health systems
Strengthening Post-Ebola Health Systems addresses the challenge of enabling the development of viable, resilient, and fiscally sustainable health system in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Initiated while Ebola was still raging in all of the three most-affected countries in West Africa, it identifies the requirements for strengthening the health systems in these countries to go beyond just getting the number of Ebola cases to zero. The overall goal of this study is thus twofold: To assess the capacity of the health systems of the three most-affected countries in terms of their ability to deliver quality health services to their populations, perform core public health functions on a routine basis, and to respond to public health emergencies; and To identify the highest impact strategies to help these countries to strengthen their health systems to be more effective and resilient, drilling down into three key aspects of the health system--that is, fiscal space for universal health coverage (UHC), development and deployment of an effective health workforce, and continuous disease surveillance.
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Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic
The first book-length study of Ebola to consider the wider social, economic and political context of the epidemic. Brings together experts from a wide array of disciplines, including development studies, epidemiology, and African studies. The majority of contributing scholars are African, many of them based in countries affected by the epidemic. Offers a provocative critique of the international response, arguing that it was too late in recognising the scale of the outbreak. Warns that many of the social problems which exacerbated the epidemic remain, and offers practical recommendations for preventing similar outbreaks in the future.
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