Sökning: "Ebola virus"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 uppsatser innehållade orden Ebola virus.

  1. 1. Anatomy of corruption in humanitarian assistance: a retrospective analysis of emergency response operations of the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Liberia (2014 – 2016)

    Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Elisha Lawodo Bloe; [2023]
    Nyckelord :emergency response and recovery; humanitarian assistance; corruption; Ebola virus disease;

    Sammanfattning : This study critically explores the pervasive issue of corruption in humanitarian assistance, focusing on the Liberia Red Cross Society (LRCS) during the Ebola outbreak in Liberia from 2014-2016. For a country grappling with broken infrastructure and fragile healthcare systems due to a 14-year-long civil war, the Ebola crisis in Liberia was an unprecedented disaster as evidenced by 10,672 recorded cases and 4,808 reported fatalities between 2014 and 2016. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Mötet med Ebola : Sjuksköterskans upplevelser av att vårda i en ebolaepidemi

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärd

    Författare :Julia Emanuelsson; Denise Gustavsson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Ebola; Experience; Nurse; Nursing; Ebola; Sjuksköterska; Upplevelse; Vårda;

    Sammanfattning : Bakgrund: Ebolaviruset är en smitta med hög dödlighet som sprids via kroppsvätskor vilket ger influensaliknande symtom och blödningar. Sjuksköterskan ansvarar för att kontinuerligt utveckla vården och vårda patienter utifrån ett helhetsperspektiv. Flertalet brister i vården utgjorde hinder för omvårdnaden. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Skapade vi "dödssmittan"? : En kritisk diskursanalys av den svenska nyhetsrapporteringen vid utbrottet av ebola och covid-19

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Författare :Anna Österberg; Olivia Smeds; [2020]
    Nyckelord :covid-19; ebola; racialization; political ecology; discourse analysis  ;

    Sammanfattning : The outbreak of ebola 2014 and the outbreak of covid-19 2019 affected our societies in a lot of ways, and some of the consequences were more unexpected than others. One of these consequences is the appearance of stigmatization and racism against ethnic groups. LÄS MER

  5. 4. 'A Perfect Storm' A case study of how the Ebola response played into conflict dynamics in Sierra Leone

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Författare :Cathrine Barklin; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Civil War; Ebola Outbreak; Humanitarian Response; Protracted Social Conflict; Sierra Leone;

    Sammanfattning : Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa was struck by the largest ever Ebola epidemic. In Sierra Leone, the outbreak occurred only about a decade after the end of an eleven-year long civil war, which left the country with little capacity to contain the virus. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Socio-Economic Determinants of Ebola Outbreak Intensity and Severity: A Study of the West-African Outbreak in 2013-2016

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Raoul Herbert; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Ebola; EVD; public health; SES; Economic History; Epidemics; Disease; Guinea; Liberia; Sierra Leone; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This study uses a specifically constructed sub-national dataset on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak cases, deaths, and CFR in order to look at the question of how important various socio-economic factors were in determining the intensity and severity of the 2013-2016 EVD outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The results of the OLS model shows that the socio-economic conditions in different regions of the country were important indicators of the number of reported cases and deaths. LÄS MER