[HTML][HTML] Pandemics: risks, impacts, and mitigation

N Madhav, B Oppenheim, M Gallivan… - … improving health and …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase
morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social …

A balance act: minimizing economic loss while controlling novel coronavirus pneumonia

B Gong, S Zhang, L Yuan, KZ Chen - Journal of Chinese …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The outbreak of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP) has significantly affected
China and beyond. How to effectively control such epidemic has gradually become a global …

The economic and social burden of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa

C Huber, L Finelli, W Stevens - The Journal of infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa was more
devastating than all previous EVD outbreaks combined; however, many estimates of its …

The economic lives of young women in the time of Ebola: lessons from an empowerment program

O Bandiera, N Buehren, M Goldstein… - World Bank Policy …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in
Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple …

Paralyzed by panic: Measuring the effect of school closures during the 1916 polio pandemic on educational attainment

K Meyers, MA Thomasson - 2017 - nber.org
We leverage the 1916 polio pandemic in the United States as a natural experiment to test
whether short-term school closures result in reduced educational attainment as an adult …

Covid-19 vs. Ebola: Impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

N Stoop, S Desbureaux, A Kaota, E Lunanga… - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In April 2020, the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was facing two major
infectious disease outbreaks: Covid-19 and Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). We highlight large …

A review of pediatric critical care in resource-limited settings: a look at past, present, and future directions

EL Turner, KR Nielsen, SM Jamal… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Fifteen years ago, United Nations world leaders defined millenium development goal 4
(MDG 4): to reduce under-5-year mortality rates by two-thirds by the year 2015 …

Long shadow of fear in an epidemic: fearonomic effects of Ebola on the private sector in Nigeria

S Bali, KA Stewart, MA Pate - BMJ global health, 2016 - gh.bmj.com
Background The already significant impact of the Ebola epidemic on Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone, was worsened by a fear of contagion that aggravated the health crisis …

Ebola, jobs and economic activity in Liberia

J Bowles, J Hjort, T Melvin, E Werker - J Epidemiol Community Health, 2016 - jech.bmj.com
Background The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the neighbouring West African
countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone represents the most significant setback to the …

Ebola and state legitimacy

M Flückiger, M Ludwig, A Sina Önder - The Economic Journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We exploit the West African Ebola epidemic as an event that necessitated the
provision of a common-interest public good, Ebola control measures, to empirically …