Preparedness for Ebola: Can it transform our current public health system?

What Is Resilience and How Can It Be Nurtured? A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature on Organizational Resilience

Background Recent health system shocks such as the Ebola outbreak of 2014–2016 and the global financial crisis of 2008 have generated global health interest in the concept of resilience. The concept is however not new, and has been applied to other sectors for a longer period of time. We conducted a review of empirical literature from both the health and other sectors to synthesize evidence on ...

The Ebola epidemic and translational public health.

Several weeks ago while preparing material for the next regular issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, I requested Dr. Skip Burkle to prepare a commentary from the global public health perspective on the current West African Ebola epidemic. As usual, Dr. Burkle provided a superb article that accompanies this editorial. Discussions of this among colleagues resulted in an outp...

Preventing the Emergence of Ebola Disease in Unaffected Countries: Necessity of Preparedness

Promoting public health legal preparedness for emergencies: review of current trends and their relevance in light of the Ebola crisis

BACKGROUND Public health legal preparedness (PHLP) for emergencies is a core component of the health system response. However, the implementation of health legal preparedness differs between low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and developed countries. OBJECTIVE This paper examines recent trends regarding public health legal preparedness for emergencies and discusses its role in the recent...

Preparing an Academic Medical Center to Manage Patients Infected With Ebola: Experiences of a University Hospital.

As Ebola has spread beyond West Africa, the challenges confronting health care systems with no experience in managing such patients are enormous. Not only is Ebola a significant threat to a population's health, it can infect the medical personnel trying to treat it. As such, it represents a major challenge to those in public health, emergency medical services (EMS), and acute care hospitals. Ou...