<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barbiero, Victor K</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">It's not Ebola … it's the systems</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Health: Science and Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014-12-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">374-375</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00186</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa demonstrates key deficiencies in investment in health systems. Despite some modest investment in health systems, our field has instead largely chosen to pursue shorter-term, vertical efforts to more rapidly address key global health issues such as smallpox, polio, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. While those efforts have yielded substantial benefits, we have paid a price for the lack of investments in general systems strengthening. The Ebola deaths we have seen represent a small portion of deaths from many other causes resulting from weak systems. Major systems strengthening including crucial nonclinical elements will not happen overnight but should proceed in a prioritized, systematic way. The sensational media coverage of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has turned world attention to the crisis in West Africa and the potential spread of EVD to other African countries and beyond. Ebola has been responsible for not only substantial numbers of deaths but also major disruptions to the entire health systems and economies of the countries involved. While EVD is in the limelight, we should also consider the epidemiology and disease burdens that drive most of the …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>