Health service resilience in Yobe state, Nigeria in the context of the Boko Haram insurgency: a systems dynamics analysis using group model building

Conflict and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ager, Alastair K ^a,b   Lembani, Martina ^c   Mohammed, Abdulaziz ^d   Mohammed Ashir, Garba ^d   Abdulwahab, Ahmad ^d   De Pinho, Helen ^b   Delobelle, Peter ^c   Zarowsky, Christina ^c,e  

^a Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d PRRINN MNCH   (Nigeria)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causal loop diagrams; Community cohesion; Conflict; Group model building; Health systems; Insecurity; Insurgency; Political will; Quality; Service provision; Staff commitment; Staff motivation; Systems dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946483718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13031-015-0056-3     Document Type: Article

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