| Author |
Besanko, David, 1955- author.
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| Title |
Polio eradication within our reach? / David Besanko, Sarah Gillis, SiSi Shen. |
| OCLC |
SAGE000000101 |
| ISBN |
9781473989603 (ebook) |
| Publisher |
London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017. |
| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Poliomyelitis -- Prevention -- Case studies.
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Poliomyelitis -- Vaccination -- Case studies.
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World health -- Case studies.
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World Health Organization. Global Polio Eradication Initiative -- Case studies.
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| General note |
Originally published: Besanko, D., & Gillis, S., & Shen, S. (2011). Polio EradicationWithin Our Reach? (case revised 08/11/2013; teaching notes revised 15/11/2013). 5-409-757. Evanston, IL: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. |
| Summary |
The years 2011, 2012, and 2013 witnessed both significant developments and setbacks in global polio eradication efforts. On the positive side, January 13, 2012, marked a full year since India had detected a case of wild poliovirus. On the negative side, polio continued to be endemic in three countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, and in those countries the goal of eliminating polio seemed more challenging than ever. Between December 2012 and January 2013, sixteen polio workers were killed in Pakistan, and in February 2013, nine women vaccinating children against polio in Kano, Nigeria, were shot dead by gunmen suspected of belonging to a radical Islamist sect. In addition, after a 95 percent decline in polio cases in 2010, the number of cases in Nigeria rebounded in 2011. Recognizing that polio was unlikely to be eliminated in these countries in the near term, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative moved its target date for eradication from 2013 to 2018.These setbacks sparked a debate about the appropriate strategy for global eradication of polio. Indeed, some experts believed that recent setbacks were not caused by poor management but were instead the result of epidemiological characteristics and preconditions that might render polio eradication unachievable. These experts argued that global health efforts should focus on the control or elimination of polio rather than on the eradication of the disease.This case presents an overview of polio and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and recounts the successful effort to eradicate smallpox. The case enables a rich discussion of the current global strategy to eradicate polio, as well as the issue of whether eradication is the appropriate global public health objective. More generally, the case provides a concrete example of a particular type of global public good, namely infectious disease eradication. |
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