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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796362703321

Autore

Govindaraj Ramesh

Titolo

Strengthening post-Ebola health systems : from response to resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone / / Ramesh Govindaraj, Christopher H. Herbst, and John Paul Clark, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D. C. : , : World Bank Group, , [2018]

2018

ISBN

1-4648-1110-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 157 pages) : illustrations, maps (most color) ; ; 26 cm

Disciplina

362.1969/1800966

Soggetti

Ebola virus disease

Medical care - Guinea

Medical care - Liberia

Medical care - Sierra Leone

History

Africa, Western

Africa

Africa, West

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and context -- National investment plans and fiscal space analysis -- Plans to scale up and improve the distribution of the health workforce -- Scaling up the disease surveillance system -- Overall conclusions and recommendations -- Appendixes : A. National investment plans and costing -- B.1. Components of investment plans and fiscal space projections for the health workforce -- B.2. Analysis of health workforce targets derived from the costing of those targets -- B.3. Related health workforce tables -- C. National disease surveillance.

Sommario/riassunto

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.--