An article in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) describes how the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) seized on the threat of imported Ebola as an opportunity to assess and strengthen its member countries' preparedness for outbreaks. The PAHO initiative sought to mobilize political support and financial resources for outbreak preparedness, ensure technical alignment ...
An article in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) describes how the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) seized on the threat of imported Ebola as an opportunity to assess and strengthen its member countries' preparedness for outbreaks. The PAHO initiative sought to mobilize political support and financial resources for outbreak preparedness, ensure technical alignment and coordination between countries and PAHO's secretariat in Washington, assess levels of preparedness through country self-evaluation and PAHO-sponsored missions, and provide follow-up to address areas of need, including training for health workers in detection and containment of cases and tools for contact tracing and monitoring.
Read the full text of the article at: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302969
