@article{a8382b82ee414928b9d33ba825983d6a,
title = "Conflict, Post-Conflict and Failed States: Challenges to Healthcare",
abstract = "The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has been widely covered in the global media, as the latest example of a health epidemic that can quickly spread across and beyond countries. While drugs development is needed to counter the virus, Jennifer Cole argues that any successful long-term approach to fighting epidemics must be based on a deeper socio-cultural understanding of the dynamics that underpin fragile healthcare systems.",
keywords = "polio, ebola, conflict, PHEIC, public health, emergency management",
author = "Jennifer Cole",
note = "Jennifer Cole is a Senior Research Fellow in Resilience and Emergency Management at RUSI and a Reid Scholar in Health, the Human Body and Behaviour (H2B2) at Royal Holloway, University of London. She studied Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1080/03071847.2014.969934",
language = "English",
volume = "159",
pages = "14--18",
journal = "RUSI Journal",
issn = "0307-1847",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "9",
}