The Effectiveness of International Non-Governmental Organizations’ Response Operations during Public Health Emergency

Lessons Learned from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone

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ID15468527
AutoresYoon Ah Shin (0000-0002-2173-6207, University of Pittsburgh), Yoon Shin (University of Pittsburgh), Jungwon Yeo (0000-0002-4991-7026, University of Central Florida), Kyujin Jung (0000-0002-2241-2415, Sungkyunkwan University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas650-650
Data de publicação2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditoraMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph15040650
PMID29614756
OpenAlexW2795130326
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas21

International Nongovernmental Organizations (INGOs) have played critical roles in improving the quality of primary health care in ordinary time and, indeed, responding to epidemic crises in developing countries. Due to a lack of empirical research for effectiveness of their responding activities, the legitimacy and accountability of nonprofits' engagement in the health crisis as a critical responder is doubted. This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of INGOs in a context of managing a fatal epidemic outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone during May-November, 2014; building healthcare infrastructures, providing medical supplies, educating local residents, and training response staffs. The analysis results show that development of healthcare infrastructures and provision of medical supplies have been significantly effective in terms of decreasing the severity of the crisis in chiefdoms. The findings imply that policy tools, which allow INGOs to enter to the field in a timely manner, can improve the effectiveness of INGOs' responses in current and future epidemic outbreaks in developing countries where people suffer from a lack of health infrastructures

Accountability · Context (archaeology · Developing country · Ebola virus · Economic growth · Geography · Health care · Legitimacy · Outbreak · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Sierra leone · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Disaster Response and Management · Global Maternal and Child Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Virology