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Title Social Mobilization for Public Health Emergency Response: The Case of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/75784
Date 2019
Author(s) Freiin von Gienanth, Eloise
Contributor(s) Stathopoulos, Dr. Athanasios
Abstract 'With growing numbers of public health emergencies in recent years, effective emergency response has become of central importance for national and international actors. Public health emergencies such as the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa have demonstrated flaws in existing emergency response mechanisms of organizations such as the World Health Organization. One of the factors that hindered the timely containment of the outbreak was communities' social resistance towards health authorities and health workers. In this context, this thesis examines to what extent the World Health Organization and health authorities have incorporated the voices of affected communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia from 2014 to 2016. Through the comparison of these two case studies, it thus aims to contribute to the field of public health emergency response by enhancing the understanding of communities' critical role in epidemic emergencies such as the Ebola outbreak.'
Subject(s) Emergency response; public health policy; Sierra Leone; Liberia
Language en
Type of publication Bachelor thesis
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2019-08-05;09:51:39