What is a resilient health system? Lessons from Ebola

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9980, 2015, Pages 1910-1912

  Kruk, Margaret E ^a   Myers, Michael ^b   Varpilah, S Tornorlah ^c   Dahn, Bernice T ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c National Port Authority   (Liberia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Liberia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; AFRICA; DISASTER PLANNING; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EID: 84929379056     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60755-3     Document Type: Note

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