Since 1960, the size ofthe government in Liberia has grown considerably, while the rate of economic growth has declined. This study investigates whether growth in government size promotes or retards economic growth. The studyfinds that growth in the size ofgovernment has been associated with a slowdown in economic growth in Liberia over the period 196086. Thus, a lesser role ofgovernment in eco...

OBJECTIVE Rural north-central Liberia has one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratios. We studied health facility birthing service utilisation and the motives of women seeking or not seeking facility-based care in north-central Liberia. DESIGN Cross-sectional community-based structured interviews and health facility medical record review. SETTING A regional hospital and the surroun...

A cornerstone of effective disaster management is that response should always begin and end at the local level (1). The response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia, West Africa, was a combination of independent efforts by many nations and organizations. Many of these independent efforts ignored or were not able to work with the local levels of emergency management in Liberia. ...

1 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 2 Sangath, Goa, India, 3 Centre for Mental Health, Public Health Foundation of India, India, 4 Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States of America, 5 New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, United States of America, 6 Simon Fr...

The severe epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Liberia started in March 2014. On May 9, 2015, the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola, 42 days after safe burial of the last known case-patient. However, another 6 cases occurred during June-July; on September 3, 2015, the country was again declared free of Ebola. Liberia had by then reported 10,672 cases of Ebola and 4,808 dea...

1 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 2 Sangath, Goa, India, 3 Centre for Mental Health, Public Health Foundation of India, India, 4 Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States of America, 5 New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, United States of America, 6 Simon Fr...

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic that has stricken thousands of people in the three West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea highlights the lack of adaptive capacity in post-conflict countries. The scarcity of health services in particular renders these populations vulnerable to multiple interacting stressors including food insecurity, climate change, and the cascading ...

On April 25, 2017, the Sinoe County Health Team (CHT) notified the Liberia Ministry of Health (MoH) and the National Public Health Institute of Liberia of an unknown illness among 14 persons that resulted in eight deaths in Sinoe County. On April 26, the National Rapid Response Team and epidemiologists from CDC, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFE...

Within a 14-year period, Liberia endured two consecutive civil wars in what one scholar has called a ‘descent into anarchy’ (Ellis, 1999). The first war—led by US–Liberian Charles Taylor—started in 1989 and ended with a peace agreement in 1996, only to be followed by the election of Taylor as president one year later.1 The second war began in April 1999, when a group of insurgents of the Liberi...