Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II
The Modern Era
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Beschreibung
This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.
This book focuses on Africa’s challenges, achievements, and failures over the past several centuries using an interdisciplinary approach that combines theory and fact and evidence-based practices and interventions in public health, and argues that most of the health problems in Africa are not a result of scarce or lack of resources, but of the misconceived and misplaced priorities that have left the continent behind every other on the globe in terms of health, education, and equitable distribution of opportunities and access to (quality) health as agreed by the United Nations member states at Alma-Ata in 1978.
Provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of the history of contemporary health and health systems in Africa Based on extensive primary source material Provides a followup from Volume I which discusses precolonial health systems in Africa
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Mario J. Azevedo
Themen in »Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II«
Health in Africa Post-colonial health systems in Africa Health policy in Africa 20th century African health AIDS epidemic in Africa