The Ebola outbreak in West Africa: A story of related public health challenges and a pointer to solutions to mitigate the inevitable next outbreak

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nsubuga, Peter ^a  

^a Global Public Health Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; Public health; Systems; Workforce

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CASE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST AFRICA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84938892000     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: 19378688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2014.19.48.5336     Document Type: Editorial

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