Healthcare Emergencies in Africa: The Case of Ebola in Nigeria

The Ebola crisis in Africa presented a case study in both hope and despair. There were severe casualties in the weak and unprepared system of Liberia and Sierra Leone, but hope for a developing system in Nigeria, which managed to prevent a mass outbreak. This chapter takes a closer look at the Ebola...

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Autores principales: Amzat, Jimoh, Razum, Oliver
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Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7120945/
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spelling pubmed-71209452020-04-06 Healthcare Emergencies in Africa: The Case of Ebola in Nigeria Amzat, Jimoh Razum, Oliver Towards a Sociology of Health Discourse in Africa Article The Ebola crisis in Africa presented a case study in both hope and despair. There were severe casualties in the weak and unprepared system of Liberia and Sierra Leone, but hope for a developing system in Nigeria, which managed to prevent a mass outbreak. This chapter takes a closer look at the Ebola crisis of 2014 in Africa and examines Nigeria as a model of political will and voluntary preparedness to tackle this national and continental health emergency. This chapter looks at risk and crisis communication in particular, and explores the concepts of ethics in the case of the Ebola outbreak. 2017-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7120945/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61672-8_10 Text en © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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