Short-term health system responses to epidemics across hard to reach areas in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT: Epidemics and Pandemics (disease outbreaks) are the occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would be normally expected. Epidemic-prone diseases, including emerging and re-emerging diseases, constitute the greatest threat to public health security and disruption of social and economic development. When outbreaks are diagnosed in specific areas, an outbreak response is triggered to stop the spread rapidly. In the past 20 years, the sub-Saharan region has witnessed a marked increase in the number of outbreaks in pandemics, such as cholera, dengue, A/H5N 1 influenza among others. While efforts toward containment have been individually studied, we have no recent studies that examine them collectively in order to draw appropriate comparisons, no recent studies that have especially focus

SUBMITTER: Murunga AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11410208 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature