ISBN:
978-1-7936-3369-9
,
1-7936-3369-X
Language:
English
Pages:
240 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
23 cm.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords:
Sub-Saharan Africa
;
Medical care / Africa, Sub-Saharan
;
Health services accessibility / Africa, Sub-Saharan
;
Medical policy / Africa, Sub-Saharan
;
Health services accessibility
;
Medical care
;
Medical policy
;
Gesundheitswesen.
;
Subsaharisches Afrika.
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Gesundheitswesen
Abstract:
"This book discusses contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify deficiencies in the system and provide recommendations for strengthening healthcare on the continent. Experts in clinical medicine, economics, public health, and the social sciences provide in-depth analyses of current issues that blend theory and practice"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword / Stephan Conermann -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contemporary Healthcare Isssues-Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives / Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Oluwatoyin Odeku -- A Reflection on Contemporary Economic, Social and Cultural Healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) / Felix Ankomah Asante and Makafui Isaac Dzudzor -- Medicine Quality in West Africa: Impact of Trans-Border Trade / Oluwatoyin Adepeju Odeku and Christie Bose Ola -- Tackling Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Medicinal Plant Approach / -- Peculiar Feenna Onyekere, Nwafor Felix Ifeanyi, and Chioma Obianuju Peculiar-Onyekere -- Malaria Control in Ghana: Past, Present and Future Perspectives / Ama Pokuaa Fenny and Patricia Ohenewaa Akuffo-Henaku -- Intimate Partner Violence as a Silent Killer: Analyzing Domestic Violence as a Health Hazard in Uganda / Proscovia Namuli -- Caring for the Aged: Africa's Next Health Challenge / Emmanuel Ashiedu Codjoe -- Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority and provision of quality health care services: Some reflections on the provider payment reforms within the National Health Insurance Scheme / Francis-Xavier Andoh-Adjei -- Cultural Negotiation and Invention of Healthcare Strategies among Cattle Nomads of Oyo North, Nigeria / Aderemi Suleiman Ajala and Kayode Akinsete -- Safe food systems for better health outcomes: Emerging food safety issues, challenges and solutions in sub-Saharan Africa / Marther W. Ngigi and Dominic Mureithi -- Indoor Air Pollution and Child Health in Africa / Gloria Afful-Mensah, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, and Robert Kaba Alhassan -- Paediatric tuberculosis in Ghana: understanding the sociocultural context to increase case detection / Gloria Ivy Mensah -- Maternal nutrition and the risk of cardiovascular diseases in offspring: translating research into practice in sub-Saharan Africa / Michael Richard Blay
Note:
"This compendium is a product of a DAAD Alumni workshop that was held in Accra, in November 2019"--Foreword
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