Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis

The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date by far. Ebola Virus Disease causes disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other hea...

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Main Authors:	Evans, David K., Popova, Anna
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	ACCOUNT AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AIDS EPIDEMIC CAREGIVERS CAREGIVERS OF ORPHANS CHILD FOSTERING CHILD MORTALITY CHILDREN UNDER AGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOUBLE ORPHANS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EPIDEMIC EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY EXTENDED FAMILY SAFETY NET FAMILY MEMBERS FERTILITY FOSTER CARE FUTURE GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SYSTEM HIV HIV/AIDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SERVICES JOURNAL OF MEDICINE LABOR MARKET MALARIA MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERNAL ORPHANS MEDICAL CARE MINISTRY OF HEALTH MINOR CHILDREN MOTHER NATIONAL AIDS NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF DEATHS NUMBER OF ORPHANS OLD-AGE ORPHAN ORPHAN CARE ORPHAN CHILDREN ORPHANHOOD ORPHANS PARENTAL DEATH PATERNAL ORPHANS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DATA POPULATION DIVISION POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE RISK FACTORS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL WELFARE SPOUSE SPOUSES TRANSMISSION UNIONS VICTIMS VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE CHILDREN WOMAN WORKING-AGE POPULATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WORLD POPULATION YOUNG CHILDREN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24016886/orphans-ebola-estimating-secondary-impact-public-health-crisis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21590

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spelling	okr-10986-215902021-04-23T14:04:03Z Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis Evans, David K. Popova, Anna ACCOUNT AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AIDS EPIDEMIC CAREGIVERS CAREGIVERS OF ORPHANS CHILD FOSTERING CHILD MORTALITY CHILDREN UNDER AGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOUBLE ORPHANS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EPIDEMIC EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY EXTENDED FAMILY SAFETY NET FAMILY MEMBERS FERTILITY FOSTER CARE FUTURE GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SYSTEM HIV HIV/AIDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SERVICES JOURNAL OF MEDICINE LABOR MARKET MALARIA MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERNAL ORPHANS MEDICAL CARE MINISTRY OF HEALTH MINOR CHILDREN MOTHER NATIONAL AIDS NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF DEATHS NUMBER OF ORPHANS OLD-AGE ORPHAN ORPHAN CARE ORPHAN CHILDREN ORPHANHOOD ORPHANS PARENTAL DEATH PATERNAL ORPHANS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DATA POPULATION DIVISION POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE RISK FACTORS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL WELFARE SPOUSE SPOUSES TRANSMISSION UNIONS VICTIMS VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE CHILDREN WOMAN WORKING-AGE POPULATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WORLD POPULATION YOUNG CHILDREN The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date by far. Ebola Virus Disease causes disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other health crises. This paper combines data on the age distribution of current and projected mortality from Ebola with the fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the number of orphans in these three countries. Using the latest mortality estimates (from February 11, 2015), it is estimated that more than 9,600 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola Virus Disease. The absolute numbers of orphans created by the Ebola epidemic are significant, but represent a small fraction (1.4 percent) of the existing orphan burden in the affected countries. Ebola is unlikely to increase the numbers of orphans beyond extended family networks' capacities to absorb them. Nonetheless, the pressures of caring for increased numbers of orphans may result in lower quality of care. These estimates should be used to guide policy to support family networks to improve the capacity to provide high quality care to orphans. 2015-03-11T20:20:16Z 2015-03-11T20:20:16Z 2015-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24016886/orphans-ebola-estimating-secondary-impact-public-health-crisis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21590 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7196 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa West Africa Guinea Liberia Sierra Leone
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topic	ACCOUNT AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AIDS EPIDEMIC CAREGIVERS CAREGIVERS OF ORPHANS CHILD FOSTERING CHILD MORTALITY CHILDREN UNDER AGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOUBLE ORPHANS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EPIDEMIC EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY EXTENDED FAMILY SAFETY NET FAMILY MEMBERS FERTILITY FOSTER CARE FUTURE GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SYSTEM HIV HIV/AIDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SERVICES JOURNAL OF MEDICINE LABOR MARKET MALARIA MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERNAL ORPHANS MEDICAL CARE MINISTRY OF HEALTH MINOR CHILDREN MOTHER NATIONAL AIDS NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF DEATHS NUMBER OF ORPHANS OLD-AGE ORPHAN ORPHAN CARE ORPHAN CHILDREN ORPHANHOOD ORPHANS PARENTAL DEATH PATERNAL ORPHANS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DATA POPULATION DIVISION POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE RISK FACTORS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL WELFARE SPOUSE SPOUSES TRANSMISSION UNIONS VICTIMS VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE CHILDREN WOMAN WORKING-AGE POPULATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WORLD POPULATION YOUNG CHILDREN
spellingShingle	ACCOUNT AGE DISTRIBUTION AGE GROUPS AIDS EPIDEMIC CAREGIVERS CAREGIVERS OF ORPHANS CHILD FOSTERING CHILD MORTALITY CHILDREN UNDER AGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPMENT POLICY DOUBLE ORPHANS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES EPIDEMIC EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY EXTENDED FAMILY SAFETY NET FAMILY MEMBERS FERTILITY FOSTER CARE FUTURE GENERATIONS HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SYSTEM HIV HIV/AIDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SERVICES JOURNAL OF MEDICINE LABOR MARKET MALARIA MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERNAL ORPHANS MEDICAL CARE MINISTRY OF HEALTH MINOR CHILDREN MOTHER NATIONAL AIDS NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF DEATHS NUMBER OF ORPHANS OLD-AGE ORPHAN ORPHAN CARE ORPHAN CHILDREN ORPHANHOOD ORPHANS PARENTAL DEATH PATERNAL ORPHANS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POPULATION DATA POPULATION DIVISION POPULATION STUDIES PROGRESS PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT PUBLIC HEALTH QUALITY CARE QUALITY OF CARE RISK FACTORS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL WELFARE SPOUSE SPOUSES TRANSMISSION UNIONS VICTIMS VULNERABILITY VULNERABLE CHILDREN WOMAN WORKING-AGE POPULATION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WORLD POPULATION YOUNG CHILDREN Evans, David K. Popova, Anna Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
geographic_facet	Africa West Africa Guinea Liberia Sierra Leone
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7196
description	The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date by far. Ebola Virus Disease causes disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other health crises. This paper combines data on the age distribution of current and projected mortality from Ebola with the fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the number of orphans in these three countries. Using the latest mortality estimates (from February 11, 2015), it is estimated that more than 9,600 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola Virus Disease. The absolute numbers of orphans created by the Ebola epidemic are significant, but represent a small fraction (1.4 percent) of the existing orphan burden in the affected countries. Ebola is unlikely to increase the numbers of orphans beyond extended family networks' capacities to absorb them. Nonetheless, the pressures of caring for increased numbers of orphans may result in lower quality of care. These estimates should be used to guide policy to support family networks to improve the capacity to provide high quality care to orphans.
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author	Evans, David K. Popova, Anna
author_facet	Evans, David K. Popova, Anna
author_sort	Evans, David K.
title	Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
title_short	Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
title_full	Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
title_fullStr	Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
title_full_unstemmed	Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis
title_sort	orphans and ebola : estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24016886/orphans-ebola-estimating-secondary-impact-public-health-crisis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21590
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Orphans and Ebola : Estimating the Secondary Impact of a Public Health Crisis

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