Ebola and its associated social determinants of health – a public health perspective
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2017, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: The Ebola outbreak is a deadly disease of the African population which has captured the interest of the global community. The pace and fatality rate of the disease requires a ‘global intervention’, with public health strategies to halt transmission and prevent further outbreaks at the source. Ebola in comparison to other conditions has been delayed in vaccine development due to several reasons including poverty of host nations, complexity of the disease and its reproductive rate (R0), pharmaceutical companies focusing on commercial viability of products and lack of penetration in western nations. Materials and methods: This article is a review of the Ebola outbreak of its source of origin, demographic spread and also provides perspectives on the public health approaches that could be used to efficiently manage Ebola. Results and conclusion: There is an unmistakable link with poverty to social inequity and health disparity as the African nations were under colonialism of the western nations. There is also a requirement of diversification of public health management within Africa and on a global scale to manage and prevent diseases such as Ebola becoming pandemics. Thus Ebola could be efficiently managed by implementing public health approaches at individual, familial and community levels.
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John, J. R.
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