Contemporary Healthcare Issues In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Edward Nketiah-Amponsah,Oluwatoyin A. Odeku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793633705

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Contemporary Healthcare Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa by Edward Nketiah-Amponsah,Oluwatoyin A. Odeku Pdf

Contemporary Healthcare Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives discusses contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify deficiencies in the system and provide workable recommendations for strengthening healthcare delivery on the continent. Contributors address topical issues such as drug quality, malaria control, health insurance, geriatric care, and the environment-health nexus. The contributors also study intimate partner violence and maternal-child health, food safety, prevalence of childhood tuberculosis, and cardiovascular diseases. This book provides in-depth analyses of current issues in Sub-Saharan Africa that blend theory and practice. The diverse group of contributors includes experts in clinical medicine, pharmacy, economics, anthropology, public health, and the social sciences.

Author : Ezekiel Kalipeni,Philip Thiuri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 0773484337

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Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa by Ezekiel Kalipeni,Philip Thiuri Pdf

Author : Omigbodun, Olayinka,Oyebode, Femi
Publisher : Book Builders
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789789211593

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Contemporary Issues in Mental Health Care in sub-Saharan Africa by Omigbodun, Olayinka,Oyebode, Femi Pdf

Seventy percent of the global burden of mental disorders is located in low and middle income countries (LMIC),including sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, in Africa,only 0.62% of the national health budget is allocated to mental health compared to a global median of 2.8% and 5% in Europe. The government is the source of funding in 62%of patients with severe mental disorder in the World Health Organisation (WHO), Africa Region, the lowest of all the WHO regions, and lower compared to a global median of 79%. This is compounded by poor resources, with mental health outpatient facilities in WHO Africa Region being less that 10% of the global median. To address these problems, the WHO launched its Mental Health Action Gap Programme (mhGAP) in 2008, to scale-up mental health services in low and middle income countries (LMIC). The book is directed to all policy makers in sub-Saharan Africa to aid decision making about the urgent need for sustainable and relevant mental health care strategies, and the important areas that need priority. The book should be helpful to local and international researchers in formulating research questions relevant to the African continent and it will be of interest to medical practitioners and students in the region as adjunct to standard text books.

Author : Ezekiel Kalipeni,Philip Thiuri
Publisher : I A A S Pub
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1879893088

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Cultural and Demographic Aspects of Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa by Ezekiel Kalipeni,Philip Thiuri Pdf

Author : Joseph Asumah Braimah,Elijah Bisung,Vincent Kuuire
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031375651

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Health Geography in Sub-Saharan Africa by Joseph Asumah Braimah,Elijah Bisung,Vincent Kuuire Pdf

This volume creates a platform to showcase health geography research from countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and draws on theoretical and methodological innovations to initiate a discussion on the complexities of the issues impacting health in the region. Through theoretically and empirically grounded contributions from a variety of researchers working across SSA, the book addresses a wide range of topics that are usually treated separately when discussing health geography in the region. By bridging the social science and health disciplines, the book introduces new ways of thinking temporally and spatially about these topics in non-geography contexts as well. In 4 sections, the text will broadly appeal to students, researchers, teachers, policy makers, and global health professionals. Section 1 addresses the social determinants of health, including gender, disability, and other inequities and inequalities associated with healthcare access. Section 2 discusses the environmental determinants of health such as food security, water and sanitation, mining, and climate change. Section 3 focuses on current and emerging challenges to health in SSA, including ageing, non-communicable disease, and infectious diseases. Section 4 concludes the text by discussing the need to develop social and environmental intervention policies and strategies to address health challenges in SSA.

Author : Chinua Akukwe
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781912234165

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HEALTH SERVICES IN AFRICA by Chinua Akukwe Pdf

The challenges to better health services in Africa are well known: Africa lags behind all regions of the world, including other developing regions, on all indicators of better health. A recent report from the World Health Organisation for instance shows that while Africa has 20% of the world's sick people, it has only 4% of its healthcare workers - many of them vulnerable to the high mortality rate associated with malaria and notably the AIDS epidemic. The state of investment in healthcare infrastructure is also grossly inadequate as is the efficiency of healthcare delivery. But does this need to be so? What factors are responsible for this unacceptable state of affairs? Contributors to the volume examine the evolution of healthcare services in Africa, the ongoing national, regional and continental efforts to improve the delivery of healthcare in the continent, and the direct and indirect obstacles militating against the maturation of the services and their efficient delivery. The contributors - all distinguished experts in the field, who hold either challenging responsibilities in health in Africa or have worked in multiple components of the healthcare delivery system in the continent - also provide powerful personal insights and lessons learned in their current or previous work in the health sector in Africa. Some of the themes covered include clinical care and centers of excellence, healthcare finance and resource mobilization, primary health care systems and community health; preventive care and risk reduction in health; the role of reference laboratories; clinical research and partnerships, the role of epidemiology, statistics, monitoring and evaluation in health services; the role of the African Diaspora, and the role of politics in the organization of healthcare and the training of medical and other health professionals. From their analyses and experience the authors articulate proven strategies and solutions based on consensus expert opinions on how to improve the quality of health services and health outcomes in the continent.

Author : Derek L. Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502623775

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Health in Contemporary Africa by Derek L. Miller Pdf

In our globalized world, diseases originating in Africa have become worldwide concerns. Health in Contemporary Africa examines the illnesses that affect people around the continent, as well as the challenges countries face due to current infrastructure. The book traces the transmission of disease and medical interventions while looking ahead to cutting edge technology and new advances poised to improve lives around Africa.

Author : Boniface Tatchwenglie Nasah,J. K. G. Mati,Joseph M. Kasonde
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3718655608

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Contemporary Issues in Maternal Health Care in Africa by Boniface Tatchwenglie Nasah,J. K. G. Mati,Joseph M. Kasonde Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004471641

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African Futures by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780821384732

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Healthy Partnerships by Anonim Pdf

Since the private health sector is an important, and often dominant, provider of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is the job of governments as the stewards of the health system to engage with it. Increasing the contributions that the existing private health sector is making to public health is an important, but often neglected, element of meeting the daunting health-related challenges facing African nations. This Report presents newly collected data on how and how effectively each country in the Africa region is engaging the respective private health sectors; and how the engagement compares across the region. While the approach taken by governments varies greatly between countries, there is much room for improvement in the Africa region overall to engage more effectively and room for exchange of ideas and good practices on how to do so. Improved solutions on the policy/regulatory side should be supported by effective organization of the private sector itself and by adjustments in donor programs that take the dynamics of the private health sector better into account.

Author : Andrew F. Cooper,John J. Kirton,Franklyn Lisk,Hany Besada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317184034

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Africa's Health Challenges by Andrew F. Cooper,John J. Kirton,Franklyn Lisk,Hany Besada Pdf

This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa’s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'. The collected set of specialized contributions in this volume examines how national and regional policy innovation can address the competing conception of sovereignty in dealing with Africa’s emerging healthcare problems in a fast-paced, interconnect world.

Author : Mario J. Azevedo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319325644

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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume II by Mario J. Azevedo Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald J. Vogel
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032736509

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Financing Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ronald J. Vogel Pdf

Outlines the present state of health care in sub-Saharan Africa and strategies for improvement. Analyzes insufficient spending on cost- effective programs; inefficient government programs; resource mobilization; cost recovery and pricing; health insurance coverage and risk-sharing mechanisms; the role of the private sector; and decentralization. Appendices include information on life expectancies, improvement in water and sanitation, and details on currency and population for six countries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309450065

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The Ebola Epidemic in West Africa by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Global Health,Forum on Microbial Threats Pdf

The most recent Ebola epidemic that began in late 2013 alerted the entire world to the gaps in infectious disease emergency preparedness and response. The regional outbreak that progressed to a significant public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in a matter of months killed 11,310 and infected more than 28,616. While this outbreak bears some unique distinctions to past outbreaks, many characteristics remain the same and contributed to tragic loss of human life and unnecessary expenditure of capital: insufficient knowledge of the disease, its reservoirs, and its transmission; delayed prevention efforts and treatment; poor control of the disease in hospital settings; and inadequate community and international responses. Recognizing the opportunity to learn from the countless lessons of this epidemic, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop in March 2015 to discuss the challenges to successful outbreak responses at the scientific, clinical, and global health levels. Workshop participants explored the epidemic from multiple perspectives, identified important questions about Ebola that remained unanswered, and sought to apply this understanding to the broad challenges posed by Ebola and other emerging pathogens, to prevent the international community from being taken by surprise once again in the face of these threats. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Author : Mario J. Azevedo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319324616

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Historical Perspectives on the State of Health and Health Systems in Africa, Volume I by Mario J. Azevedo Pdf

This book examines the historical and current state of health and the health of the African people, including the Arab North, impacted by such factors as geography and natural elements, cultural and colonial traditions, and competing biomedical and traditional systems. It also looks at technological advances, poverty and health disparities, utilization of resources, and international presence, as reflected by the work of the World Health Organization, and structural adjustments imposed by the IMF and the World Bank.