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UNICEF/UN024528/La Rose
Briefings

Two Evaluations of Community Ebola Interventions, Two Different Results

This spring, when the team from the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform evaluated Community-Based Ebola Care Centres (CCCs) in Sierra Leone, one thing they constantly heard complaints about was human-resource management....
HEART
2015
UNICEF/UNI184967/La Rose
Evidence Reviews

Ebola: What Lessons for the International Health Regulations?

With more than 3000 deaths since the first case was confirmed in March, 2014, the international community has recognised Ebola as a public health emergency of international concern and a...
The Lancet
2014
UNICEF/UNI182824/Bindra
Foresight Papers

IDSR as a Platform for Implementing IHR in African Countries

Of the 46 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African region (AFRO), 43 are implementing Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) guidelines to improve their abilities to detect, confirm,...
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science
2013
UNICEF/UNI118042/Pirozzi
Briefings

Rebuilding After Catastrophe? A Missed Opportunity for Health and Social Change

Ebola is just one of the many crises the world faced through 2015, which also saw the Nepal earthquakes, Yemen civil war, South Sudan conflict and the Syrian refugee crisis...
HEART
2016
UNICEF/UN034479/Rugwiza, UN-MINUSTAH
Evidence Reviews

Natural Disasters, Armed Conflict, and Public Health

The effects of armed conflict and natural disasters on global public health are widespread. Much progress has been made in the technical quality, normative coherence, and efficiency of the health...
The New England Journal of Medicine
2013
UNICEF/UN033473/Al Saleh, WFP
Background Reports

How Urbanization Affects the Epidemiology of Emerging Infectious Diseases

The world is becoming more urban every day, and the process has been ongoing since the industrial revolution in the 18th century. The United Nations now estimates that 3.9 billion...
Infection Ecology & Epidemiology
2015
UNICEF/UNI181855/de Mun
Briefings

Seven Things We Can Learn from the Ebola Epidemic in Uganda in 2000 – 2001

Diseases such as Ebola highlight the importance of a holistic focus on health systems, as opposed to assuming that health is the preserve and concern of health professionals alone. This...
HEART
2014
UNICEF/UNI166988/Jallanzo
Evidence Reviews

Ebola – Traditional Healers, Witch Doctors, Burial Attendants

This helpdesk focuses on the impact of traditional healers, witch doctors and burial attendants on ebola in West Africa. It seeks to establish if there is a difference between witch...
HEART
2015
UNICEF/Jallanzo
Evidence Reviews

Ebola Regional Lesson Learning

The Ebola outbreak currently affecting West Africa is the most serious trans-national medical emergency in modern times. It has the potential to become a global health crisis. Many of the...
HEART
2014
UNICEF/UNI169267/Crespo
Foresight Papers

Global Health Architecture: Current and Future

DFID is mapping the current health architecture and identifying drivers that will influence the future architecture from 2015. This report was prepared to inform DFID on the strengths and weaknesses...
HEART
2014
UNICEF/UNI169267/Crespo
Briefings

Scenario Building in Preparation for or during Humanitarian Crises

The humanitarian community often finds itself unprepared for unfolding humanitarian developments or sudden events: the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti and the sudden spread of Islamic State areas of control...
ACAPS
2016
UNICEF/UN034523/Khodabande
Evidence Reviews

Severity Measures in Humanitarian Needs Assessments – Purpose, Measurement, Integration

Severity is a key parameter in humanitarian decision making. “Severe” is part of ordinary language; “severity” more institutional. We make absolute statements (“The patient is in asevere condition”) as well...
ACAPS
2016
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