Lagos the Mega-City: A Report on How the Metropolis Handled an Outbreak of the Ebola Epidemic

Lagos State, Nigeria, is a mega-city with an estimated population of 16–21 million people. In the last ten years, the mega-city has made tremendous progress in terms of: sustained rapid economic growth, improved infrastructure and services, and a significant reduction in crime rates. This has provid...

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Autores principales: Idris, Jide, Fagbenro, Adesina
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Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123743/
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description Lagos State, Nigeria, is a mega-city with an estimated population of 16–21 million people. In the last ten years, the mega-city has made tremendous progress in terms of: sustained rapid economic growth, improved infrastructure and services, and a significant reduction in crime rates. This has provided an enabling environment for millions of Lagos state inhabitants to find their way out of poverty. The Lagos State Government has also made great strides in its quest to: increase value for money in public spending; improve the business climate in Lagos; maintain fiscal sustainability; and properly monitor and manage financial and health risks.
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spelling pubmed-71237432020-04-06 Lagos the Mega-City: A Report on How the Metropolis Handled an Outbreak of the Ebola Epidemic Idris, Jide Fagbenro, Adesina Socio-cultural Dimensions of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Africa Article Lagos State, Nigeria, is a mega-city with an estimated population of 16–21 million people. In the last ten years, the mega-city has made tremendous progress in terms of: sustained rapid economic growth, improved infrastructure and services, and a significant reduction in crime rates. This has provided an enabling environment for millions of Lagos state inhabitants to find their way out of poverty. The Lagos State Government has also made great strides in its quest to: increase value for money in public spending; improve the business climate in Lagos; maintain fiscal sustainability; and properly monitor and manage financial and health risks. 2019-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7123743/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17474-3_21 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 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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