John Perry, T. Debey Sayndee

Social Mobilization and the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia. After many years of civil conflict its health system had been weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and the United States of America. The book offers a convenient summary of the background 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 to prepare itself better for possible future epidemics of the same scale and gravity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761887065
• Artikelnr.: 74849965

Autorenporträt

John Perry is a Canadian Jesuit who was at the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation and participated in an effort to teach people in the rural areas about the importance of effective hand washing with chlorine and water.

T. Debey Sayndee is the Liberian Director of the Kofi Annan Institute for \Conflict Transformation. He has been involved in peace building in Liberia and other West African countries for many years.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: The Ebola Nightmare in
Liberia and West Africa Chapter 2: The Ebola Nightmare in Liberia and West
Africa Chapter 3: History of Liberia Chapter 4: How the Ebola Fight was won
in Liberia Chapter 5: The Legacy of Ebola Chapter 6: Lessons Learned after
the Ebola Crisis Chapter 7: The Law of Unintended Consequences Chapter 8:
Experience of Children during the Ebola Epidemic in Monrovia Chapter 9:
Conclusion Bibliography