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Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19
Response to public health emergencies requires continued adaptation and innovation. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is the country’s public health institute with the mandate to protect the health of Nigerians. Achieving such mandate in resource-limited settings with divergent demograph...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9494560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36130796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007993 |
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author | Saleh, Fatima Popoola, Biliamin O Arinze, Chinedu Elisha, Andebutop A. Dan-Nwafor, Chioma Olajide, Lois Ilori, Elsie Ochu, Chinwe Lucia Ihekweazu, Chikwe A |
author_facet | Saleh, Fatima Popoola, Biliamin O Arinze, Chinedu Elisha, Andebutop A. Dan-Nwafor, Chioma Olajide, Lois Ilori, Elsie Ochu, Chinwe Lucia Ihekweazu, Chikwe A |
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description | Response to public health emergencies requires continued adaptation and innovation. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is the country’s public health institute with the mandate to protect the health of Nigerians. Achieving such mandate in resource-limited settings with divergent demographic characteristics of the citizens, necessitates the readiness to learn from experience and to develop policies and activities in line with lessons learnt and best practices. This practice paper describes the initiatives of the NCDC towards adapting its public health response activities by establishing learning systems across its structure. The paper informs on some of the steps taken by the Centre regarding learning from the Lassa fever outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It concludes that commitment and investments are key requirements for learning and adapting public health responses to achieve success with combating infectious diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-94945602022-09-23 Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 Saleh, Fatima Popoola, Biliamin O Arinze, Chinedu Elisha, Andebutop A. Dan-Nwafor, Chioma Olajide, Lois Ilori, Elsie Ochu, Chinwe Lucia Ihekweazu, Chikwe A BMJ Glob Health Practice Response to public health emergencies requires continued adaptation and innovation. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is the country’s public health institute with the mandate to protect the health of Nigerians. Achieving such mandate in resource-limited settings with divergent demographic characteristics of the citizens, necessitates the readiness to learn from experience and to develop policies and activities in line with lessons learnt and best practices. This practice paper describes the initiatives of the NCDC towards adapting its public health response activities by establishing learning systems across its structure. The paper informs on some of the steps taken by the Centre regarding learning from the Lassa fever outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. It concludes that commitment and investments are key requirements for learning and adapting public health responses to achieve success with combating infectious diseases. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9494560/ /pubmed/36130796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007993 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Practice Saleh, Fatima Popoola, Biliamin O Arinze, Chinedu Elisha, Andebutop A. Dan-Nwafor, Chioma Olajide, Lois Ilori, Elsie Ochu, Chinwe Lucia Ihekweazu, Chikwe A Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 |
title | Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 |
title_full | Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 |
title_short | Adapting public health response through lessons learnt: Nigeria’s experience from Lassa fever and COVID-19 |
title_sort | adapting public health response through lessons learnt: nigeria’s experience from lassa fever and covid-19 |
topic | Practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9494560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36130796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007993 |
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