Operationalizing Public Health Skills to Resource Poor Settings: Is This the Achilles Heel in the Ebola Epidemic Campaign?

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-46

  Burkle, Frederick M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster medicine; Ebola; epidemics; epidemiology; global health; global health security; public health emergencies; resource poor settings

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DISASTER PLANNING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; STANDARD OF CARE;

EID: 84924360169     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.95     Document Type: Note

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