Abdullah Ibrahim
Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic : towards a political economy / edited by Ibrahim Abdullah and Ismail Rashid. - xiii, 322 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
A comprehensive critique of the socio-economic issues revealed by the world's deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus. From 2013 to 2015, over eleven thousand people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first time the virus was able to spread beyond rural areas to major cities, infecting tens of thousands and overturning conventional assumptions about its epidemiology. With backgrounds ranging from development to disease control, the contributors to this volume, many of whom are based in countries affected by the Ebola epidemic, consider the underlying factors that shaped this unprecedented outbreak. While championing the heroic efforts of local communities and international aid workers in halting the spread of the disease, the contributors also point to deep structural problems in both the countries affected and the humanitarian agencies involved that exacerbated the epidemic and hampered the effort to contain it. Alarmingly, they show that little has been learned from these events, with health provision in these countries remaining chronically underfunded and poorly equipped to deal with future outbreaks. Such issues, they argue, reflect the wider challenges we face in tackling epidemic disease in an increasingly interconnected world. -- Publisher description.
9781786991690 1786991691 9781786991683 1786991683
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola.
Epidemics.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Communicable Disease Control--organization & administration.
Politics.
Public Health Administration.
Epidemics--History--Africa, West--21st century.
Ebola virus disease--Economic aspects--Africa, West.
Public health--Economic aspects--Africa, West.
RC140.5 / .U53 2017
614.588
Understanding West Africa's Ebola epidemic : towards a political economy / edited by Ibrahim Abdullah and Ismail Rashid. - xiii, 322 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
A comprehensive critique of the socio-economic issues revealed by the world's deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus. From 2013 to 2015, over eleven thousand people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epidemic marked the first time the virus was able to spread beyond rural areas to major cities, infecting tens of thousands and overturning conventional assumptions about its epidemiology. With backgrounds ranging from development to disease control, the contributors to this volume, many of whom are based in countries affected by the Ebola epidemic, consider the underlying factors that shaped this unprecedented outbreak. While championing the heroic efforts of local communities and international aid workers in halting the spread of the disease, the contributors also point to deep structural problems in both the countries affected and the humanitarian agencies involved that exacerbated the epidemic and hampered the effort to contain it. Alarmingly, they show that little has been learned from these events, with health provision in these countries remaining chronically underfunded and poorly equipped to deal with future outbreaks. Such issues, they argue, reflect the wider challenges we face in tackling epidemic disease in an increasingly interconnected world. -- Publisher description.
9781786991690 1786991691 9781786991683 1786991683
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola.
Epidemics.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Communicable Disease Control--organization & administration.
Politics.
Public Health Administration.
Epidemics--History--Africa, West--21st century.
Ebola virus disease--Economic aspects--Africa, West.
Public health--Economic aspects--Africa, West.
RC140.5 / .U53 2017
614.588