How World Health Organization has fared in tackling the 2014-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease?
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919 emergency, strengthening of the various offices pertaining to their resources, and development of a global health emergency workforce/contingency fund so that desired resources can be immediately deployed without wasting time. 3. Cooperation between health and humanitarian systems: In the current outbreak of Ebola, a wide gap was highlighted between systems for responding to health emergencies and systems for humanitarian response. Thus, the panel recommends integrating these two systems at the earliest.[4,5]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
دوره 20 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015