Empowering Resilience: Improving Health Care Delivery in War-Impacted African Countries

by Aaron G. Buseh

Overview

Empowering Resilience addresses a critical area of concern for all individuals, governments, and non-government organizations involved in international peace building and economic development: the rebuilding of health care systems in countries emerging from civil conflict. Professor Aaron Buseh sets a broad context for improving health care delivery in war-impacted African countries by presenting a clear and concise historical overview of Liberia, including it's political, economic, and cultural factors that led to social upheaval. Through understanding the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in Liberia, readers will be able to appreciate the analysis of the pre-war root causes of the civil conflict and a poorly functional pre-war health care system that Buseh effectively investigates. With a convincing argument, Buseh offers a strategic vision for reforming and reorganizing Liberia's health care system. A book that breaches many concerns steadily rising in today's society, Empowering Resilience is devoted to contributing to political stability by capitalizing on the resilience of the Liberian people who endured the civil conflict

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761838968
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/29/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Aaron G. Buseh is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing. With expertise in nursing and public health, his instructional concentration is in the area of understanding the organization, financing, and delivery of health care in developed and developing countries. Professor Buseh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Cuttington University College in Liberia, a Master of Public Health degree (MPH) and a Master of Science degree in nursing (MSN), both from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Professor Buseh is the author of numerous refereed articles published in health and social sciences journals.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 4 The Country Profile: Political, Economic, and Social Factors
Chapter 5 Health Status of the Liberian Population: Critical Analyses and Priority Areas
Chapter 6 Health Care in Liberia: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery
Chapter 7 Financing Health Care Services in Liberia
Chapter 8 Human Resource Development: A Crisis in the Prewar and Postwar Liberian Health Sector
Chapter 9 The Role of Technology and Essential Pharmaceuticals in the Liberian Health Care System
Chapter 10 Reviving the Intellectual Capital of Liberia to Inform the Rebuilding Process
Chapter 11 Liberia's Health Care System: Framework for Reform in the Postwar Era
Chapter 12 Epilogue
Part 13 Bibliography
Part 14 Index
Part 15 About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

Aaron Buseh's new book Empowering Resilience is an intelligent blueprint for rebuilding post-conflict Liberia's health care system...Dr. Buseh is a Liberian man who loves his people, and his passion bubbles up in the prose.

William Powers

Empowering Resilience is brilliantly and professionally written...I have no doubt that this book will be a useful tool in rehabilitating health care delivery in the country...

Bernard L. Ngovo

Empowering Resilience is a superb and thorough study of the devastating impact of Liberia's civil wars on the public, private, and traditional health systems of Liberia, and on the health of its citizenry...an innovative approach...a thorough analysis that concentrates not only on problems but what it will take to rebuild a health-care system in post-conflict Liberia...

Peter Schwab