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标题：Health-system resilience: reflections on the Ebola crisis in western Africa
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作者：Marie-Paule Kieny ; David B Evans ; Gerard Schmets 等
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：2014
卷号：92
期号：12
页码：850
DOI：10.2471/BLT.14.149278
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：Disease outbreaks and catastrophes can affect countries at any time, causing substantial human suffering and deaths and economic losses. If health systems are ill-equipped to deal with such situ- ations, the affected populations can be ver y vulnerable. 1 The current Ebola virus disease out- break in western Africa highlights how an epidemic can proliferate rapidly and pose huge problems in the absence of a strong health system capable of a rapid and integrated response. The outbreak began in Guinea in December 2013 but soon spread into neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone. 2 In early August 2014, Ebola was declared an international public health emergency.