Rising to the Challenge: The Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone and How Insights into One Nongovernmental Organization's Response Can Inform Future Core Competencies

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 554-557

  Gursky, Elin A ^a  

^a ANSER   (United States)

Author keywords

communicable diseases; Ebola virus; nongovernmental organizations; public health competencies

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EDUCATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIERRA LEONE; STANDARDS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EDUCATION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84948587433     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.96     Document Type: Article

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