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Social Mobilization and the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia

John Perry and T. Debey Sayndee

The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia. After many years of civil conflict its health system had been weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and the United States of America. The book offers a convenient summary of the background of the EVD crisis, and the ways it was defeated by the public who were energized by the gravity of the situation. It discusses the lessons learned, the effect of the disease on children, and the way forward for the international health care system to prepare itself better for possible future epidemics of the same scale and gravity.

Hamilton Books

Pages: 118 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6851-4 • Hardback • December 2016 • $69.00 • (£53.00)

978-0-7618-6852-1 • eBook • December 2016 • $61.50 • (£47.00)

Subjects: Political Science / World / African, Health & Fitness / Diseases / General, Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues, History / Africa / West, Political Science / Public Policy / General

Social Mobilization and the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia

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Summary

The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia. After many years of civil conflict its health system had been weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and the United States of America. The book offers a convenient summary of the background of the EVD crisis, and the ways it was defeated by the public who were energized by the gravity of the situation. It discusses the lessons learned, the effect of the disease on children, and the way forward for the international health care system to prepare itself better for possible future epidemics of the same scale and gravity.

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Hamilton Books

Pages: 118 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6851-4 • Hardback • December 2016 • $69.00 • (£53.00)

978-0-7618-6852-1 • eBook • December 2016 • $61.50 • (£47.00)

Subjects: Political Science / World / African, Health & Fitness / Diseases / General, Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues, History / Africa / West, Political Science / Public Policy / General

Author

John Perry is a Canadian Jesuit who was at the Kofi Annan Institute for Conflict Transformation and participated in an effort to teach people in the rural areas about the importance of effective hand washing with chlorine and water.

T. Debey Sayndee is the Liberian Director of the Kofi Annan Institute for \Conflict Transformation. He has been involved in peace building in Liberia and other West African countries for many years.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Ebola Nightmare in Liberia and West Africa
Chapter 2: The Ebola Nightmare in Liberia and West Africa
Chapter 3: History of Liberia
Chapter 4: How the Ebola Fight was won in Liberia
Chapter 5: The Legacy of Ebola
Chapter 6: Lessons Learned after the Ebola Crisis
Chapter 7: The Law of Unintended Consequences
Chapter 8: Experience of Children during the Ebola Epidemic in Monrovia
Chapter 9: Conclusion
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Social Mobilization and the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia

John Perry and T. Debey Sayndee

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