Paediatric morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone. Have things changed after the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak?

Name	World Continuing Education Alliance
Activity Title	Paediatric morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone. Have things changed after the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak?
Details	In 2017, a cross-sectional study. The outbreak was declared over in November 2015. Since then, there have been considerable investments into the health system by Government and development partners. One of the limitations of the 2017 study. We thus conducted a similar country-wide study assessing morbidity and mortality for the same childhood illnesses using a longer post-Ebola period and compared this data with the pre- and intra Ebola periods. Objectives Course Objective Sierra Leone was severely affected by the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak which is likely to have had longer term repercussions on the health system including on paediatric morbidity and mortality. We thus assessed under-five morbidity and mortality for malaria, acute respiratory Infections (ARI)/pneumonia, watery diarrhoea and measles during the post-Ebola period in Sierra Leone and compared this with the pre- and intra-Ebola periods.. This was a retrospective cross-sectional study using program data from the District Health Information system (DHIS2) and sourced from 14 districts in Sierra Leone. It included under-five children from 1,250 health facilities country-wide. Study periods included: before (June 1. Malaria, ARI/pneumonia and diarrhoea consultations declined during Ebola but recovered to pre-Ebola levels in the post-Ebola period. During the post-Ebola period, there was a highly significant reduction in case-fatality for the first three morbidities compared to the pre-Ebola perio...
Competence	Paediatrics and Child Health
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Event Time	08:30 AM
Location	World Continuing Education Alliance eLearning System
Cost (UGX)	0
CPD Points	1