Community-based health care is an essential component of a resilient health system: evidence from Ebola outbreak in Liberia
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- 作者：Kendra Siekmans ; Salim Sohani ; Tamba Boima ; Florence Koffa ; Luay Basil…
- 关键词：Liberia ; Integrated community case management ; Diarrhea ; Pneumonia ; Ebola ; Health system ; Community health worker
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：903KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundTrained community health workers (CHW) enhance access to essential primary health care services in contexts where the health system lacks capacity to adequately deliver them. In Liberia, the Ebola outbreak further disrupted health system function. The objective of this study is to examine the value of a community-based health system in ensuring continued treatment of child illnesses during the outbreak and the role that CHWs had in Ebola prevention activities.