Health and disease in tropical Africa
Author | : Akhtar R |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1987-01-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9783718603008 |
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Author | : Akhtar R |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1987-01-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9783718603008 |
Author | : Committee to Study Female Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 1996-03-20 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309562228 |
The relative lack of information on determinants of disease, disability, and death at major stages of a woman's lifespan and the excess morbidity and premature mortality that this engenders has important adverse social and economic ramifications, not only for Sub-Saharan Africa, but also for other regions of the world as well. Women bear much of the weight of world production in both traditional and modern industries. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, women contribute approximately 60 to 80 percent of agricultural labor. Worldwide, it is estimated that women are the sole supporters in 18 to 30 percent of all families, and that their financial contribution in the remainder of families is substantial and often crucial. This book provides a solid documentary base that can be used to develop an agenda to guide research and health policy formulation on female health--both for Sub-Saharan Africa and for other regions of the developing world. This book could also help facilitate ongoing, collaboration between African researchers on women's health and their U.S. colleagues. Chapters cover such topics as demographics, nutritional status, obstetric morbidity and mortality, mental health problems, and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
Author | : Rais Akhtar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1987 |
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ISBN | : 9780317584448 |
Author | : John Gyapong |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2016-01-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3319254715 |
This book provides an overview on the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, such as Leishmaniasis, Buruli Ulcer and Schistosomiasis. In well-structured chapters epidemiology and biology of these parasitic diseases will be discussed in detail. Further, diagnostics and therapeutic approaches as well as prevention strategies will be reviewed. The book will be of interest to basic researchers and clinicians engaged in infectious disease, tropical medicine, and parasitology, and a must-have for scientists specialized in the characteristics of the Sub-Saharan region.
Author | : Eskild Petersen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2011-04-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1119971624 |
This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries included in that region. Chapters also include descriptions of infectious disease risk and problems with resistant bacteria in each region (e.g. antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections in Southeast Asia). For the clinician, this book is a tool to generate differential diagnoses by considering the geographical history, as well the presenting symptoms and duration of illness. For the travel medicine specialist, this book provides information on risks of different diseases at various destinations and is particularly useful in advising long-term travelers.
Author | : Rais Akhtar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Paula Viterbo |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1628954906 |
Over the last two decades, the implosion of economies under the burden of debt, the negative repercussions of structural adjustment programs, the crisis of legitimacy, civil wars, and the collapse of some states have resulted in serious health issues across the African continent. Newly emerging diseases, such as Ebola virus and HIV/AIDS have killed and disabled millions. Some “old diseases,” such as yellow fever, tuberculosis, and polio have reappeared. Malaria, cholera, and meningitis continue to kill thousands. In many countries, the medical infrastructure has collapsed, while an increasing number of physicians and nurses have migrated to more hospitable places. Stigmatization of the affected people has exacerbated social and racial discrimination and has affected the implementation of national and international public health programs. The complexity of the situation requires an interdisciplinary approach. This collection, including contributions by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and biologists, emphasizes the social and cultural contexts of African health, paying particular attention to the history of the colonial public health system and its legacy.
Author | : Dean T. Jamison |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0821363980 |
Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of the gains made, not just for communicable disorders, but for cancers, as well as mental and neurological disorders.
Author | : Philip D. Curtin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1998-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521598354 |
This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.
Author | : Clemens Greiner |
Publisher | : Africa-Europe Group for Interd |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789004470811 |
"The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers - all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows"--