{"id":3119,"date":"2016-04-25T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg-development\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2016-10-16T17:58:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T21:58:51","slug":"lets-not-make-the-same-mistake-again-a-political-economy-analysis-of-sierra-leones-cholera-and-ebola-epidemic-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2016\/04\/25\/lets-not-make-the-same-mistake-again-a-political-economy-analysis-of-sierra-leones-cholera-and-ebola-epidemic-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s not make the same mistake again: A political economy analysis of Sierra Leone\u2019s Cholera and Ebola epidemic responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/2016\/04\/25\/ebola-implications-for-global-health-governance\/special-issue-cover-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3102\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2016\/04\/Special-Issue-Cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"Special Issue Cover\" width=\"488\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2016\/04\/Special-Issue-Cover-1.jpg 3232w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2016\/04\/Special-Issue-Cover-1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2016\/04\/Special-Issue-Cover-1-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2016\/04\/Special-Issue-Cover-1-1024x448.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Rosalind McCollum and Miriam Taegtmeyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Ebola epidemic in West Africa resulted in calls for universal health coverage and revision of global health governance for emergency response.\u00a0 This political economy analysis identifies structural reasons why Sierra Leone and the international health community failed to respond in a timely and effective manner to the Cholera and Ebola epidemics or to translate learning from the Cholera epidemic to the Ebola response. The analysis considers how structural factors interact with stakeholder institutions\u2019 interests and power dynamics before it identifies potential solutions.\u00a0 We urge national and global decision makers to take concrete action to tackle underlying inequity within the global health system and address the root causes of populations\u2019 vulnerability to future infectious disease outbreaks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/files\/2016\/04\/Ebola-Special-Issue.pdf#page=71\"><button>Full Text<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rosalind McCollum and Miriam Taegtmeyer The Ebola epidemic in West Africa resulted in calls for universal health coverage and revision of global health governance for emergency response.\u00a0 This political economy analysis identifies structural reasons why Sierra Leone and the international health community failed to respond in a timely and effective manner to the Cholera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":3102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[404,384,390],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-issue-ebola-implications-for-global-health-governance","tag-ebola","tag-global-health-governance","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ghg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}