Correspondence : Health-Care Worker Mortality and the Legacy of the Ebola Epidemic
The authors modelled how the loss of health-care workers—defined here as doctors, nurses, and midwives—to Ebola might affect maternal, infant, and under-5 mortality in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, with the aim of characterising the order of magnitude of likely effects, not providing specific predictions. The authors combined data on: (1) health-care worker deaths from Ebola; (2) the stock of health-care workers pre-Ebola; (3) maternal, infant, and under-5 mortality rates for each country, pre-Ebola; and (4) coefficients of health-care worker mortality, which capture the relation between health-care workers in a given country and different mortality rates (ie, maternal, infant, and under-5 mortality).
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| Main Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | en_US |
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Elsevier
2015-07-09
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| Subjects: | health care worker mortality, Ebola, epidemic, maternal health, infant mortality, under-5 mortality, child mortality, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22762 |
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